"Seph?" Shayne walked into the room. One of the police officers was right behind him. "Officer Alberict would like to talk to you."

I nodded and pulled the blanket tighter over my shoulders. James had called the police and they had came and taken Gregory away on a stretcher, in a body bag. It was on of the hardest things I had ever witnessed. I mean, I had fought a countless number of vampires, but none of that compared to watching them wheel away one of my good friends.

Officer Alberict cleared his throat and I turned my attention from the window to him. "Ms. Thorne, when was the last time you saw Gregory?"

"Yesterday. Shayne called me yesterday and told me to come home. Gregory was here when I got here along with everyone else."

"Can you think of anyone that would want to hurt him?"

I shook my head. "No, Greg was a good guy. He wasn't the kind of person to make enemies." He didn't make any human enemies anyway, but the police would think I was crazy and probably lock me up in the loony bin if I'd told them about vampires.

"And what about Alana Sheldon? Anybody want to hurt her?"

"No." Nobody but the undead.

He closed his notepad and thanked me for my cooperation before leaving. Jayde came to sit beside me. "What are you people? Are you, like, in the mob or something?"

I gave her a sideways glance. "Or something," I said.

"What does that mean?"

"It means you don't want to know what we are, so just drop it," I spat with venom lacing my voice. I was being unnecessarily rude but I was past the point of caring.

She stood up. "You don't have to be so mean." she stormed out of the house, shoving Kaige out of her way on the way out.

"How are you holding up?" he asked, plopping down on the sofa next to me.

"I say we go after the son of bitch tonight. We could follow Jayde to Raidyn's hideout and go from there," I said. I knew he didn't want to hear it. He didn't want to hunt vampires anymore, but at the same time he did. He hated them just as much as I did, maybe even more.

He sighed. "Okay."

"Really? You're not going to try to talk me out of this?" I stared at him in disbelief.

He nodded. "If I say no, I'll only be risking you going off on you own and getting yourself killed. Shayne and I promised Mom and Dad that we would look after you if anything ever happened to them. And that's a promise we intend to keep."

A light bulb went off inside my head as I put the pieces of the puzzle together. "So that's why you wanted to stop hunting vamps. Why didn't you tell me?"

"Because even if we hadn't promised, we'd still do it anyway. You're our baby sister; we don't want to lose you." He smiled. He stood and started to leave. He turned around just before he went into the kitchen. "We're only going to get one shot at this. If anything goes wrong, you get the fuck out of here. You understand?"

"If anything goes wrong, I'll walk away," I said. It was a lie. It wouldn't matter if anything went wrong because I would keep fighting until either Blane or I was dead. That's just the way I was. And Kaige knew it. Both he and Shayne would die trying to protect me. I just hoped that there wouldn't be a reason for them to protect me tonight.