Maybe I should have known better. If you don’t stand on the sidelines and ignore the world around you, sooner or later you make enemies. One of mine, a vampire named Bianca, had abducted Susan and infected her with the blood thirst of the Red Court. Susan hadn’t gone all the way over—but if she ever lost control of herself, ever took another’s lifeblood, she would. She left me, afraid that if she didn’t, I’d be the kill that turned her into a monster, and set out into the world to find some way to cope. I told myself that she had good reason to do so, but reason and heartbreak don’t speak the
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