I finally realized that if I let her last remarks go, then we'd never be friends again. So what? he asked, and he sounded irritated and tired. How did I argue in court that I knew how strong a vampire was and how fragile the human body could be? And call it a hunch, but I figured once I shot Primo, I had to kill him. The indirect brightness was bad enough.
He knelt by my head, kneeling over us on his knees like some dark angel in the cloak he would not give up for any modern coat. Once I would have been hurt, really hurt, by the beating that Damian had given me. If I'd been there from the beginning, my mind would have been slow and taking it all in with that artificial sense that you have more time to do things, decide things, than you actually do. I shut the door, and he let me.
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