Ruben was by no means tame, but he was different than when he’d first arrived. I tried to recall one moment when he’d overstepped since that last time, but there hadn’t been one. As a matter of fact, he’d made himself so scarce for a while that I thought he’d left town altogether. He hadn’t. He’d put all of his focus on building his businesses, especially his vampire den, which he’d renamed The Green Light. I wondered why he had changed the name. Perhaps telling me in some symbolic way that vampire-kind didn’t need to hide their nature like a dirty secret, giving the green light, as they said,
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