Part 4

Cam was still trying to digest the knowledge that Honey had a twin. How could she have not told him that? She'd insisted on coming back here to check on her family - was there some other sort of reason for the trip, some sort of score to settle?

When he got back to the safehouse, Honey wasn't anywhere around. Tosha was in the living room watching the TV. "Where's Honey?" he asked.

"On the phone upstairs. Where'd you go?"

He sat down in the unoccupied arm chair. "How well do you know Honey?"

Tosha smiled faintly. "You just saw her twin, Carmella, didn't you?"

Cam nodded. "Am I missing something here?"

Tosha looked up the stairs. There didn't seem to be any sign of Honey. "Okay, long story cut short, Carmella fell for a Night World vampire, snotty rich guy who wouldn't be seen dead with a Daybreaker for a girlfriend. She wanted to prove herself to him so she hired an assassin to help her take out the rest of her family. Honey found out what was going on and managed to escape. She couldn't save her parents from Carmella's assassin. She faked her own death and escaped to Vegas, Carmella got her vampire, but he dumped her after a few weeks and she ended up with his younger brother." Tosha smirked. "Serves her right."

So Honey's twin was a cold-hearted bitch. Why the hell would Honey drag him down here? Then again, Cam remembered Thierry had asked him to come with Honey to make sure she didn't get into trouble. Considering what he'd learned this afternoon, trouble was pretty much guaranteed.

He headed upstairs, listening out for Honey's voice. He found her in the last bedroom on the right, she sat on the bed, staring blankly ahead.

"Honey?"

"Oh. You." She didn't sound too thrilled to see him.

Cam sat on the bed, wondering how to address the problem. She'd been so enthusiastic about coming here. Now she was acting strange, like she wasn't really there anymore.

"Were you ever planning on telling me the truth?"

Honey shrugged. "There was no way you would have let me come otherwise. And if I'd have sneaked off anyway, you would have found some way to stop me."

Cam nodded. She had a point. "So what do you plan on doing with me since I'm here?"

Honey smiled faintly. "I was sort of hoping you'd take an interest in one of the girls downstairs."

Cam stared at her. This was *not* the girl he had fallen in love with. Okay, they weren't the perfect soulmate couple, he hadn't exactly been the most faithful guy in the world...but this...this wasn't the Honey who he'd woken up with the other morning.

"I'm not doing any such thing, Honey," he snapped. "You need to stop this. The whole idea of Daybreak is second chances. Maybe your sister - "

"She killed our parents!" Honey yelled. "And would have killed me as well. And she's going to pay for that." Her steely grey eyes bored into Cam's. He knew he wasn't going to be able to talk her out of this.

He remained where he was, not sure what to do with himself. Honey looked away from him. "Please go. I didn't want you to come."

Cam stood up and did as she asked. He wandered downstairs, shaking his head. He couldn't understand what Honey must be feeling. How could she want to kill her own twin? Okay, so the twin had done some terrible things. As he had told Honey, the idea of Daybreak was to stop the violence between the two sides and offer second changes. They'd had some surprising reformers before. But it looked like nothing would change Honey's mind.

"She's still royally pissed?" Tosha said as he came back into the lounge.

Cam nodded. "And determined for revenge." He sighed. "I want to stop her before she does something she'll regret."

Tosha looked over at him. "But you don't know how."

"Not a clue," Cam sighed.

"I hate to interrupt something that looks really depressing, but I've got more bad news." Selwyn came hurrying into the living room.

Tosha's eyes rolled. "Do I dare ask?"

"Charity Galena is in town."

Cam looked from one to the other. "Is that bad?"

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