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I’m not certain I’ll be cut
out for this job but I’ll give it my best shot.”
    Ethan strides toward
him, his hand outstretched. “Excellent, Nicu. I assure you, you won’t regret
this.”
    “Hmm, I hope not,” says
Nicu, shaking Ethan’s hand and gesturing for his son and daughters to follow
him out.
    For the next hour Ethan
meets with the vampires he feels he can trust the most, vampires he’s been friends
with for a long time. Most of the meetings go similarly to the one with Nicu,
except that these vamps seem far more enthusiastic about taking political
positions with Ethan. Half the time, I have to stifle the urge to yawn. It’s
just all so boring.
    It’s only when Lucas
brings a male and female couple into the room that my spidey senses wake up.
There’s something off-putting about the two of them but I can’t seem to put my
finger on it. They’ve both got sleek jet black hair and green serpentine eyes.
The way that they regard me for far longer than they do Ethan raises my
hackles. I look to Ethan as he watches them and I want to know what’s he’s
gleaning from their reactions to me.
    Pulling my legs up
under me on the cushioned armchair I’m sitting on, I stare at them dead on, not
allowing myself to be eye shy. Eventually they turn to greet Ethan and take
seats on the sofa in the middle of the room. I remain in my corner, anxious
that something bad is going to happen. My magical blood bubbles under my skin in
warning.
    “Angelica, Raul, it’s a
pleasure to see you both again.”
    “Likewise,” says
Angelica, folding her slim, pale arms across her chest. “You’re wearing your
years well, Ethan.”
    He inclines his head,
acknowledging the compliment. “As are you. Now, I’d like to get straight down
to business. We are all aware that you were both in Whitfield’s inner circle,
as I once had been. I need to know if you hold any grudges about the way in
which he died.”
    “None at all,” Raul
speaks up blandly. “In fact, I am eager to see how you fare as ruler. I always
thought you had a good head for leadership.”
    Raul continues to
lavish Ethan with compliments and for some reason my attention is drawn to
Angelica, who is very slowly rising from her seat. Quick as a flash she whips
out a stake and advances on Ethan. Raul stops talking and strides towards me
with feral determination. I don’t hesitate for a moment as I hold my hand in
front of me and sparks shoot out in warning. Angelica plunges the stake at
Ethan’s heart but it doesn’t even break the skin.
    My mind flicks back to
earlier in the day, when he’d shown me the sharp nail of his baby finger and
told me it’s the only thing that can successfully cut him now. Angelica seizes
up with panic as Ethan stands in front of her, not even bothering to fight
back. He knows her attempt on his life is futile.
    “Not another step,” I
say to Raul whose eyes flicker from side to side trying to figure out a way to
get by my sparks. Ethan turns his attention to me, and if I’m not mistaken he
looks like he’s proud of me.
    Angelica tries one more
time to plunge the stake into Ethan. He grabs her wrist and turns her body
before clutching her to him. Her back is pressed to his front, one of his arms
wrapped around her middle. It’s a position that looks almost like a lover’s
embrace if you were to ignore the way his hand grips her neck and smoothly
wrenches it to the side. I hear the dull snap of bone just before he lets her
body drop to the floor.
    Milliseconds later he’s
grabbing Raul in the exact same way and incapacitating him with the exact same
snapping of his neck. He picks the stake Angelica had tried to kill him with up
off the carpet and then drags both bodies from the room as though they are
weightless rag dolls.
    I hurry out after him
as he strides down the hallway to his front door, opens it and heaves both
bodies out. The vampires waiting in the dark gasp audibly as Ethan stands stoically
before them and