A/N: Sorry it took so long to update, but I was working on other stories. The chapters will have to be small if you want me to update quickly. Love y'all! Enjoy!

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"Do you have any idea who took him?" Blade asked Abby.

"No. I just came home one night and there was a note saying the King was kidnapped, and that I'd never see him again," Abby explained.

"So you have no clue?"

"No."

Blade sighed. They weren't going to get anywhere tonight.

"Okay," Blade decided, "We're going to start working on this in the morning. Besides, you're in no condition to figure this whole thing out right now. You can spend the night in the spare bedroom, and we'll figure put our strategy tomorrow."

"Thank you, Blade," Abby said.

"It's Erik now. Blade does not exist anymore. Or atleast to the vampires. He died the same day Drake did," Erik explained. (A/N: I'm switching from Blade to Erik).

Abby gave him a watery smile. "But you'll always be Blade to me."

Erik's expression turned serious. "Blade is dead. If anyone hears you call me Blade, both of our lives will be in danger do you understand?" he asked harshly.

Abby flinched as if she had been slapped. She had forgotten how cold he could be. But he was right. Their lives could be at stake, if she continued to call him "Blade".

"You're right. I'm sorry," she said in a small voice. She felt exhaustion overcoming her. "I'll go to sleep now. Goodnight." She stood up and walked down the hall to the guest room.

Erik mentally slapped himself. He had to remember that Abby was more sensitive than the other women he had known that had been thrown into the vampire world.

He was going to have to be careful around her. She had lost almost everything: her father, Zoë, her job to hunt vampires, and now King.

Blade sighed. He thought he would never have to save that smartass's life, again. He guessed that was the price of once being one of the most fierce and feared vampire hunters in the world.

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