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sleep. I don’t mind the energy, and he’s not
fighting with the others, but he does act like he runs the house and that can’t
continue. When I have to relocate my main office because of his accidents, we
have a problem. On his second day here, he walked into a vampire’s bedroom,
said he got better reception in it, and kicked the older vampire out.”
    “Yeah, he did that to me when I took him in.”
    “It sounds like living with Darwin,” Henry said.
    “Put him in charge of something,” I advised. “Let him
design a security system or something.”
    “Actually, that was what I asked you here about. My
coven has been attacked.”
    “Well, I expected there would be some problems with
your treaty after the council fell. You should take it up with Hunt and
Vincent, since they’re in charge of redesigning the council.”
    “It’s not wizards attacking us, it’s humans. A small
group of humans banded together and somehow discovered my coven. They’ve been
attacking during the day. Fortunately, Maseré’s pack has been able to keep them
at bay so far, but they get more reckless each time.”
    “Why would humans be attacking you?”
    “Because they’re human and we are vampires. Most
humans are not as violent towards us as wizards, but there are several clusters
of humans who think all paranormals should die. That’s why our secrecy is so
vital to our survival. If we retaliated, we could slaughter them easily, but
more and more would follow.”
    So they were like Gale. “Are any of your vampires
that don’t live in the mansion getting attacked?”
    “Not that we know of.”
    “I’ll take care of it, but I still suggest putting
Marcus in charge of your defense. There is no one I know who’s better at
computers and it’ll keep him out of your hair because he’s damn sure not going
to consult you.”
     
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    Henry and I decided to stick around until the humans
attacked in the morning. Marcus wanted to join us until sunrise, but I convinced
him that he had better things to do. He was ecstatic when Stephen told him he
could set up a security system. Of course, Marcus wanted to modernize the
entire house. When we last saw him, he was talking about installing cable TV
for the vampires who stayed at the coven.
    Although they had food for visitors and spare
bedrooms, Henry and I denied the offer and headed outside to wait. We sat in
the truck parked in a visitor lot, where we could see the front and left side
of the mansion. I was in the driver seat and Henry was in the passenger seat.
    “What are we going to do when we confront these
humans?” Henry asked. “Humans who hate vampires will probably hate wizards and
I know you still feel a kinship with them.”
    “Just because they’re human doesn’t mean they can
attack like this. If we can’t scare them away, we can convince them to leave.”
    “How?”
    “I will use my mind control.” Henry frowned, since he
knew I preferred not to do that kind of thing, but he didn’t argue. If I used
my power for personal gain, I would be no better than John, but this was
different.
    “We have seven hours before sunrise. Should we take
turns sleeping?”
    Normally, I didn’t get that option because I didn’t
have a partner on my stakeouts. “Sure. You can sleep first.”
    “I’m not tired.”
    Neither was I, so we just sat in silence for a while.
Then my phone rang, and I instantly jumped to all the worst conclusions when I
saw the number. “What’s wrong? Is she okay?” I asked.
    “It’s not your mother,” Kyle said quickly. “She’s
fine. A big storm came on suddenly and Scott is freaking out. He needs to hear
his father’s voice, and Henry’s phone is off.”
    “Okay, I’m putting him on,” I said, holding back a
sigh of relief. “Turn your phone on,” I told him as I passed my phone to him.
“I thought you said the storm wasn’t heading towards them.”
    “It wasn’t, but storms can change