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be forgetting too soon.
    In the short time it had taken for Charlie to explain why he’d come back to Cookson Springs, I went from clueless to panic attack.
    I even picked up the phone to call 911 and report a couple of insane men in my house, but then Luke demonstrated their sincerity by showing his fangs, and his impressive ability to move across the room at a speed that would have been impossible for a human.
    I slowly began to accept what Uncle Charlie was telling me, though reluctantly. There were still a number of things I was confused about, but the main thing was Luke.
    Now why would my Uncle Charlie, who claimed to be a vampire hunter, be partnered with a vampire?
    It wasn’t a subject I was ready to tackle yet, if ever. All I knew is that Charlie needed my help and I’d agreed, mostly to help Max. My friend had been found off the side of the road, nearly comatose.
    Charlie claimed that what happened to Max, might be connected to what he was investigating.
    According to Charlie, all I had to do was go to Club Crimson with Luke, and see which vampires took the most interest in me.
    Sounded easy enough, except that he’d never actually explained why it was important to know which vampires showed an interest.
    Wouldn’t all of them?
    By my way of thinking, if you had blood, a vampire was going to be interested. It would be something like flaunting a sirloin steak to a starving man.
    Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Luke reach into his pants pocket and pull out a mini bottle. Opening the bottle, he downed the whiskey without so much as flinching.
    That’s when it dawned on me that he was drinking something, other than blood. He’d had whiskey earlier in the night, but I’d been so caught up in watching Marcus that it hadn’t occurred to me to ask the obvious question.
    “I thought vampires could only drink blood?” I asked, without taking my eyes from the road.
    He laughed. “It’s a bit complicated to explain, but basically our body function is almost normal, as long as we feed.”
    My face twisted in disgust.
    “Don’t ask if you don’t want to know,” he said.
    “There are a lot of things I want to know about vampires. Like how do they keep their existence a secret?” I asked, glancing over at him.
    It was difficult to keep from staring at Luke. After all, he was a vampire. I found this intriguing, but he wasn’t bad looking either. I kind of liked the way his chestnut colored bangs swept carelessly across his forehead.
    “Is it really that much of a secret? If you give it some thought … you’ll see that vampires are very much a part of human culture, and always have been.”
    I shrugged. There was no denying he had a point. If you paid any attention at all, you’d find vampires everywhere. The concept was certainly popular.
    “Life is full of mysteries,” he said, after downing another mini bottle.
    I was starting to get worried that he’d get drunk. I wondered what a drunk vampire would be like.
    “Like what?” I asked.
    Looking over at me, he let his eyes rest on the hollow between my breasts. I may not have known this if I hadn’t have looked over at him at that precise second.
    He was making no secret of where his thoughts were going. “Like the mystery of how you managed to get through the night without becoming someone’s feeder, especially with the way you are dressed.”
    “What’s wrong with the way I’m dressed?” Now I was a little offended.
    Considering how some of those people at Club Crimson dressed, I felt my attire was more or less modest.
    I looked passably nice, though not spectacular. My dark hair was long and difficult to style, which was the reason I wore it loose most of the time.
    Since my eyes were also dark, I sometimes wore eye shadow to add some color. True, my pastel blue dress was a little low cut, but nothing compared to what some women wore these days.
    “Take care darling. Not all vampires will show the same restraint as I do,” he warned.
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