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in.
    “There you
are.”
    Haley
straightened up trying to look tough, as her instructor approached.
    “How are you
doing?” Ms. Armistice asked. “Are you okay?”
    “I don’t
think so,” Haley said.
    “You got
freaked out because we dressed you up like the girls who have been murdered?”
    “Sorta.
Yeah.”
    “But didn’t
we say we were going to do that?” Ms. Armistice reasoned. “Didn’t we choose
this assignment out for you together?”
    “How do I
know it’s not going to be me?”
    “What’s not
you?”
    “How do I
know I’m not going to turn into one of them?”
    Ms. Armistice
hesitated. “Look in the mirror, Haley.”
    “What?”
    “Just look.
Tell me what you see.”
    Haley turned
her neck slightly. “Yep. I’m a mess.”
    “I don’t
think so. But explain away.”
    “I look
easy,” Haley said. “Like I’d say yes to any guy.”
    “What else?”
    “Like … I’m
depressed. Like … I take drugs. Well …”
    “You don’t
take drugs, do you Haley?”
    “No.”
    “You’re
projecting, based on your image, correct?”
    “Right.”
    “Can I tell
you what I see now?”
    “Okay,” Haley
shrugged. “Sure.”
    “I see a
piece of trash. A person without an identity, who will throw themselves at
anything. I see someone who maybe practices self-harm. Who likes pain. Because
they’re worthless. Absolutely, positively, pathetic.”
    “Well,
thanks.”
    “We can thank
Luna. She has given you the perfect costume you need for this assignment. I’ll
tell you what I see underneath that costume. I see a woman who has worked hard
for the last four years in preparation for this moment now. I see someone who
has an opportunity a lot of people her age would kill for. I see someone who is
brave, and intelligent, and simply brilliant in every way she allows herself to
be.”
    Haley turned
away from the mirror to face her.
    “I see
someone who has something to prove,” Ms. Armistice said.
    Haley shook
her head. “I see someone trying to manipulate me.”
    Ms.
Armistice’s eyes became smaller. A smile touched her lips faintly.
    “That’s why I
know you’ll succeed.”

 
    CHAPTER NINE
     
     
    They put the blindfold on her again.
The nerve. Surrounded by the new group she was a part of, the group she didn’t
know, she was marched through the building once again to the elevator to reach
the car park. Once there they led her out to the back of a van were she was
seat and strapped in, the doors closing in behind her. Although she couldn’t
see them, she was aware of two people in the back with her, while one was
driving, exiting the area. Haley asked who was who and what was where, and
learned that she was in the back with ‘Maurice’ and ‘Riley’ and that ‘Jason’
was driving. Ms. Armistice and Luna were staying behind in headquarters.
    Haley wasn’t
really clued in on their plan for her. Of everyone here she seemed to know the
least of what was going on. She knew as much that they weren’t driving out to
the Vampire Dating Agency outright, of course that wouldn’t work. She was going
to a location where she’d be transported from to the VDA presumably. Her
objective was clear enough – find out who was killing all those women, without
getting killed herself. But the means to figure that out? She hadn’t had much
in the way of pointers so far.
    The more she
thought about it, the less this seemed an undercover investigation, as it did
that they were using Haley as bait. She shuddered at the thought.
    “Are we far
away yet?” she asked after about ten or fifteen minutes of driving. “Can I take
this off yet?”
    No response.
    “Well?”
    “Ms.
Armistice would probably prefer you to leave it on,” Maurice said. “If it’s all
the same to you.”
    “Seriously?”
Haley snapped. “Because this is making me feel really yuck. I’m risking my life
for you guys, and you don’t even trust me?”
    “Well, what
if you get captured?” Riley asked. “What if the vampires start