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I covered my tracks and carefully remove myself from the older woman's mind. I watched in my mental vision as she reached out to Levi, grabbing his hand and saying, "You must be home before dark, Levi. Please don't ask me how I know this, I just do.""I'll do my best grandmother, I promise," he answered as he hugged her.I stayed there a few more hours watching and listening. Once Levi's grandmother went to bed my attention was all on him. He seemed restless now instead of being tired like he was when he first arrived home. I observed him trying to watch television, to read the newspaper and then listen to music but nothing he did was able to hold his attention. He ended up pacing from the living room to the kitchen, always pausing at the back door of the house and staring in my direction.I had to find out what was upsetting him like this but when I tried to probe his mind again I found myself blocked from entering. How was he doing this to me? He couldn't know about me not after wha
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Now that I have conformation that Jackson was here I took my time returning home by zigzagged my way up the mountain. I circled around the cabin checking for anyone or anything and found it clear. But as I started toward the kitchen doors I wished that I had another place close by that I could go to rest.Once inside I made my way to the basement for a shower and change of clothes since I was covered in blood, then returned upstairs. I didn't bother turning any lights on because I saw things way to clearly as it was. Images of Levi splashed in front of my eyes, the night I first held him in my arms, the night I first tasted his blood, the night I first made love to him.I couldn't resist the pull of the guest bedroom any longer. The memories played like a movie through my mind as I took in the sight of the unmade bed. The scent of us, of him, still hung in the air.I stood beside the bed and placed my hand on the mattress where he had laid, stroking my fingers across the sheets and re
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A minute of silence fell over the house before she called out, "Is, is everything all right in there?"I came out of the bedroom, the dark color of crimson coating my lips, chin and neck, holding my side and grimacing in pain. "It's all right now, he's dead." The blood seeped from my side onto my fingers as I leaned up against the wall."You're bleeding," She simply said, then left the room, coming back quickly with a towel and medical supplies."You really shouldn't do this, ma'am."She handed me the towel. "It's the least I can do since you saved my life. Now come to the kitchen so I can get a good look at that wound." After I wiped my face and neck clean I followed and stopped in front of her where she had seated herself at the table. I hissed as she pulled my shirt up, the material catching on the splinters in my side. She took a pair of tweezers in her hand and then looked up at me. "Now this will hurt because of the size of the splinters but I'll try to be gentle."I growled dee
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Now that the sun had set on a new evening it's time for me to get down to business. One by one mortals and immortals filled my living room. Each one brought something to me that the other didn't have.The first mortal to speak up was Mike, who brought maps of everything, from topographical to road maps of the area. The second mortal, Tom, brought construction plans and floor layout sheets so I could find my way around outside on the property as well as inside.My two immortal friends, David and Randy, had the site under surveillance almost from the moment I called them the night before. From what they could tell no one guarded the place, either by land or water.The last mortal among us, Brad, opened up a portfolio filled with photographs that showed the mill from the air and water. He even had interior shots before and after the mill had closed down.I studied all the material and made mental notes from the other's viewpoints until it was time to leave. Outside they all stood in fron
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I turned back around and closed those few inches of space between us, sliding my hands along side his stubble covered cheeks. "I'm sorry." I whispered before kissing him softly."Well, well isn't this a touching little scene," a strange voice came from behind Levi.I looked over his shoulder and saw Jackson standing there in jeans and a black t-shirt, arms folded across his chest and dark blonde hair slicked back from his face. "What is it with you and your family always interrupting emotional moments?"I glanced at Levi and heard his voice without his lips ever moving, "Get me off this hook Marina so I can help you."While putting space between us, I sent my answer, "No, I think you need to stay right there out of the way, besides you wouldn't even be here if you had only let my commands do their job. By the way, I don't think I like having you inside my head, Levi, just when did you get this ability to send me messages and read my thoughts?"His voice inside my mind sent shivers dow
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I closed my eyes hoping to gain some of my strength back when I heard a squeaking sound growing louder and louder. Levi screamed out to me, "Move, Marina, Move."I opened my eyes and saw Jackson coming toward me out of the darkness with a hook in his hands, pulling the block and tackle mechanism across the ceiling toward me with a ton of force before he let go."No!" Levi screamed.I knew I could get out of the way if I could only slide down to the floor fast enough. But as I started my decent, I stared in horror as Levi, who had somehow cut the rope between his wrist and freed himself, stepped in front of me and screamed in pain as the hook embedded in his shoulder.My heart ripped apart in my chest as I saw the blood seep around the hook where it had came all the way through to his back. Right before my very eyes the mill changed, blending into a memory that my mind now saw of another time, another place. I'm unable to move as the old sawmill turned into an old Italian cemetery. Ins
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I thought his eyes were fantastic before with the way they seem to stare into my heart, but now, as a vampire, they were spectacular. They glowed in wonder as he looked around. "It's amazing, Marina, everything looks so clear. Did you turn a light on in here?"I chuckled a little, "No, that is just the vampire in you. It heightens all the senses. You can hear better, see better, your sense of smell is stronger, taste is different and touch is, well, I'll leave that to your imagination till I can show you."I put out a mental call to my friends, telling them that it was over but that I needed help with Levi. "I've got help on the way for us, Levi and then soon we will be back at the cabin. Once we get cleaned up, and I take care of that wound in your shoulder, we can talk till dawn. Then while we sleep your body will heal and when we rise, oh Levi, you will have so many great surprises."He hugged me close and said, "As long as you're there to share the surprises with me, love, then I'
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I quietly closed the lid on the box and looked up. Levi stood in the doorway watched me. I wiped my hands across my cheeks taking my tears away as he came over to sit beside me. "I got a little worried about what was taking so long and thought I would come down and check on you. I'm sorry if I interrupted." I kept one hand on the jewelry box and reached over with my other and twined our fingers together, "Now that I've kept my promise by killing the last underling of the man who killed Dante, I'm saying my finally good-bye to him." I leaned my head against Levi's shoulder, "I should've had this finished a long time ago, but I didn't want it to end. Each day that that underling existed made me think of something I missed about Dante and those memories kept him alive to me." "You don't have to say good-bye to Dante, Marina. I want you to keep all the memories and all the things that you two had or shared. I would have to be heartless to ask you to forget a man who was in your life for
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