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endorphins. Pleasure hormones.” She still struggled, but with a little less force. “The change—yes, you are being transformed—is like fire inside you. Oxytocin or endorphins are like water. You keep letting your fear or your anger ratchet up, and the endorphins I helped you generate will dissipate, and you will burn from the inside again. Calm down.”
    She’d been wearing medical scrubs before and he prayed it meant she had some knowledge of human anatomy and physiology. With her arms behind her back, her delicate wrists locked in his hand, he thought he felt some of the fight leave her body. His cock had been like steel from the moment he pleasured her, and now it came surging back with a vengeance. If he didn’t get himself under control as well, things would become very complicated later on.
    â€œWhy me?” she muttered after a few moments. “How did this happen to me?”
    Corin took a chance, released her wrists and stepped back. She glared at him, but didn’t charge. “Sometime recently,” he explained, “in the past week, you encountered a vampire. And he or she changed you.”
    â€œIs that what you are?” She inclined her head, studying him.
    â€œYeah.” He resisted the urge to lift his lip to show her the evidence.
    â€œIt’s daylight.”
    â€œMost of the fiction out there is untrue. Some of it is very true, however. What you need to recognize and accept is that you are becoming one of us. I need your help in figuring out how that happened.”
    Jasmine dropped her head, her gaze now landing on the floor, and wrapped her arms around her waist. “You said you’re the instrument of my death. What did that mean?”
    Swallowing hard, he took another chance. Moving closer, he reached out and stroked her face. Her soft skin temptation. “You don’t want a life like mine, Jasmine. This isn’t for you.”
    She glanced up to pierce him with another one of those death looks. “You don’t even know me.”
    â€œYou’re right.” His voice was shakier than he would have liked. “In another lifetime, I would have liked to have known you. In this one, I can’t. Help me find your sire and in three days, I’ll reward you with a swift, clean death.”

Chapter Five
    Jasmine figured she took the news rather well. No crying. No hysterics. Just matter-of-fact analysis of the impossible. Vampires.
    Really?
    She was absolutely horrified by her earlier behavior with Corin but didn’t have the cajones to look back on her actions. She just watched him now. Looked for any signs of the mentally deranged. Figured—the first good-looking guy to come along and rock her world would be some insane serial killer. Even now he gave her a dangerous smile, and she hated herself for liking it.
    â€œWhy should I believe you? You don’t even sound like you’re from around here. That accent…”
    â€œEnglish isn’t my first language. Some habits die hard.”
    â€œI suppose you’re going to tell me you’re a hundred years old and sleep in a casket at night.”
    He snorted. “Hardly, but I am a vampire. Get your mind wrapped around that.” When she continued to stare at him, his jaw tightened. “You don’t believe me, do you?”
    â€œYou think?” she replied, her voice heavy with sarcasm.
    â€œWhat would it take to convince you?” His smile broadened.
    â€œMore than…” Despite being only a foot away from him, she took a step closer. Her height gave the perfect vantage point for seeing exactly what he wanted her to see.
    No one had incisors like that. No one.
    She ran her tongue along the bottoms of her own teeth, looking for any that might be just a little bit longer than the others. Teeth that might signal she would soon look like Corin. Her heartbeat stuttered when she encountered two that hadn’t been like that before.