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stomped it out before she could analyze it. She reached into her back pocket and handed him the device. She tried not to laugh, given her current situation, when he had trouble using it.
    "This is infuriating! Where is that 'key pad' he told me to use?"
    Her curiosity spiked as she took the phone back and touched the keypad to show the numbers. "He?" she questioned. Yes, she was curious about the man he brought up, but she knew this was just a gateway to ask about the girl.
    "An old friend. I have an ability to be able to get into people's heads so to speak, and asked him about this life. What to expect etcetera. He grew tired of me invading his dreams and said it caused him headaches. Of course, that was a lie, since our kind doesn't get headaches, but I got what he was hinting at. He told me a number to reach him at. I have to say, the leaps and bounds the world has made is astounding. Everything is so much faster." He looked down at her before dialing as he traced her bottom lip with the pad of his thumb.
    "The woman you're silently asking about was nothing but a meal to me. Rest assured she is fine, I did not harm her."
    She looked into his eyes and saw he liked the fact she was jealous of someone else. Before she could say anything more, he was talking to whoever was on the other line.
    "Yes, Darcy, it's Vincent. Yes, I am now using a cell phone. I need your expertise in making things disappear. Yes, it does involve witnesses. Don't take that tone with me, boy! I still have two hundred years on you! Did you forget the fact I was betrayed and left to rot in the ground for the last three hundred years?! Besides, you owe me for that one time in Prague... I thought so. I'm in a city named Vancouver, it's about a two-hour ride from where I last resided… Okay, an hour drive by those metal carriages. This is no time for corrections! The local police are here and I need to make my mistake go away. Alright… I'll see you in a few minutes." He handed the phone back to Wendy and she had to hang it up since he didn't know how to yet.
    "Does he live near here? You said a few minutes?" It scared her that another vampire was coming, but she tried not to show it.
    He chuckled darkly before piercing her with his stare. "He told me he was roughly a three-day 'drive' away, which should mean he'll be here in about fifteen minutes. We're very fast as you've witnessed."
    She sucked in a breath and tried to smile. "C-Cool."
    His gaze became concerned and he wrapped his arms around her. "Cool? Are you cold, Firefly?"
    She choked out a laugh, but inside she was going crazy. It was such a war zone in her head it was giving her a headache.
    "It's a term now. It's like a dulled down 'amazing'," she briefly explained, trying to get over the fact he was so close to her… again.
    "I think I may need to be rid of this attire. It may draw attention." He spoke more to himself than to Wendy. He pulled away from her and this time Wendy did start to feel the bitterness of the cold when his heat was gone momentarily.
    "H-How are you warm?" she blurted out, making her eyes widen fractionally from her own brazenness. Where had this courage come from? she wondered to herself, but chalked it up to having an adrenaline rush. After all, she was just carried out a window four stories up.
    He laughed to himself before talking to her as he was taking off his scrub shirt. She gulped loudly when the white t-shirt he was wearing underneath rode up, giving her an impressive glance of his physique.
    "I only grow cold when I go without blood for too long. It is what keeps me… closer to being human, you could say. I'll explain all of this to you in due time, Love. Although, I may need to feed again soon."
    He looked distraught by the fact and Wendy couldn't help but ask, "Soon? Do you normally  f-feed a lot?" Bile rose slightly in her throat at the thought of feeding. She was never a fan of blood, only being able to tolerate small amounts of her own. He looked torn at