I was lost because Reyes wasn't here and Damon came. I didn't want that and I tried to run away. Damon caught me and said "Baby, Mimi, what on earth have they done to you, I can barely feel you in your mind but don't worry, it will take a little time but I'll get you sorted out. " He injected my lungs and I fell asleep right away. Reyes didn't even come into my dreams and I was restless even there and I missed him. There was only Reyes in my life and no one else. Damon was nothing. Adam didn't even cross my mind. Mimosa was asleep, she was faded as she would fade away but when it was Reyes. He was just all I had. I tried to look for him. Hoping he'd come to me. I couldn't find him, and I didn't even feel him anymore. It was like he'd abandoned me.

Damon knew they were in for a god-awful fight Reyes had somehow gotten Mimi addicted to him and now it was taking a lot for Damon to break that connection. He took her to Chicago because it was the place she knew best. He started in their bedroom first. Mimi was in his arms and he was stroking and untying all the knots that had come into her head. Everything was all messed up in there. Damon was persistent and searched her head for Mimi. Eventually, he found the prison and started to open it. It took strength and time. Once he got Mimi's will, rage, and sanity free, he knew there was still work to be done. The obsession with Reyes was still there. Reyes was, in a way, the father of Incubus. He wasn't the incubus king, they were his creation. Mimi still had to be kept well-medicated as he persistently removed the strands Reyes had put in her head. Every thread was wrong, Damon felt the corrupting power of the thread. Damon's own rage was just beneath the surface and he vowed to destroy Reyes if he ever bumbled out of hell again. Every thread tied Mimi to Farrow and made her yearn. He'd already gotten Mimi's metabolism back to normal and it didn't matter if she didn't eat, because now she had a reserve supply. But Mimi wasn't using it.

I knew I was in Chicago, in Damon's arms. I missed Reyes, but that was fading by the day. It was like an addiction. I was angry at myself for being so fucking weak and falling into that trap. Damon held me. Sometimes he would shake. I knew he was losing himself in his rage. So was I. There's no such thing as a perfect man. Never again. When Damon explained that this was the creator of the incubus, I knew who I was going to go after next. I didn't lose weight and Damon did something weird, well weird and strange. He opened my arm and tasted my fat. Then he looked at me and said "Did you know you don't even make fat? That's some kind of, full reserve food, and now your body doesn't use it yet when there's no need. But, darling, I'm going to take all of that. I'll have you free of Reyes in no time and then you'll have a little operation going on. A purge. Once again, I'll be a naughty husband and take all your spare food."

I smiled wearily and said "I am stupid, lazy, and weak. But not anymore. Now I'm not falling for men's traps anymore." Damon smiled and said " You couldn't help it, you were the target from the start. Don't you darling worry about a thing, everything will be alright. The whole pack was the target, who do you think got us to party and be with those women? But Farrow is now buried in hell so he's not getting off that easy. Let's say 60 years at least. And then I'll be ready to push him right back in." We were on the couch, I realized, and I was lying on Damon's lap with my clothes on, and he was just stroking as he untied the last few straps from my head. "See baby, this isn't bad at all, not at all." I smiled because it wasn't. It was not that I wasn't comfortable in his arms, but I didn't really know how to go there myself, at least not yet. I fell asleep when I felt the flank sink back into my lungs after he'd finally got the straps off my head.

Damon carried Mimi downstairs, where Samuel and Colin were already waiting. They would do the surgery and Damon would go and rest as the last 8 weeks he had been untying Mimi had been very hard and now he needed to rest himself. He thought in his mind that it took him two months to get those damn sticky straps out of Mimi's head. Samuel and Colin got a spare 40 kilos from Mimi. Well, Mimi was 48 kilos after that but Samuel wanted to take it all out so that it could be properly examined and then see if it was used. Mimosa had also almost recovered from her destruction and was extremely furious. Samuel knew that Mimi had her own rage and Mimosa's rage on top so this girl was going to make it all happen and quickly. Damon was asleep. He probably rested for another week while Samuel assessed the situation.

I woke up in the downstairs bedroom and I was fine. I went to eat and then took a shower. When Samuel explained that Damon needed to recover and he needed time to recover, I decided that the gentleman could recover, but I was going to do some unloading.

Now off to the incubus and succubus race, and a brisk pace. I set out to drive to South America because I knew they had real nests there. I decided to be ruthless.

I went to Bolivia and bought a house there. Then I made a plan for myself. Locally, with the help of the fleas, we'd start hunting, just capture the strongest and collect the blood. Well, it's not quite true that you can't eat an incubus empty, or maybe you can't eat it, but you can drain it. I had drained quite a few of them before, incubus blood is tasty but apparently, my vampire side is so strong that a little bit is not enough. Hence South America because there were good fight clubs there too. And you can get delicious blood meals from them. So let's get down to business. Every night, put on your gig clothes, take Lady with you, and go on your way. I was singing Boulevard of Broken Dreams in my head, it was kind of my gig song. It was years and years back. I had my own ways and I started to enjoy when I could actually do things and make decisions on my own, without a tail creeping a few city blocks behind me. Whenever I found an incubus, I would seduce it into the alley, and then taste it. If it was strong, I ate it empty and slapped the tranquilizer, if it was weak, well I ate it empty and killed it. The strongest ones were tasty, though. I'd already reportedly drained three incubus princes to death .so what. They seemed to be enough. And there were plenty of them, really.

I'd been in Bolivia for a month when Adam called. "Mimi, what have you been up to, Damon is still in the house and recovered, if you like..." I laughed at Adam and said " Tell the Salvatore that this time the restless winds have taken his wife and she can't get away from them yet. Enjoy yourselves, watch TV, and cook dinner. I'll get some work done. " I hung up when Adam said he'd give him my best. A couple of days later a voice in my head said " Baby, what you're doing is asking for trouble. You can eat incubi and sometimes kill them, but from what I've heard... I'm a little worried already, can't you just stop?" Damon was worried, how sweet. I wonder if he's going to program to stop doing this too. I knew I'd order all my products from the store because I had no idea what music was playing in the store. Eternal Flame wouldn't bother me too much, but that Poison. The horror of it paralyzed me in my seat and would be too much of a risk. Better to be safe in the house than in a medical facility. Besides, I had heard that I was now over three million in bounty, Sark. I think he's got a burning desire for enzymes. I'm not sure if the institutions have suffered a bit. I said or thought " What I do is my business, I've been doing gigs for quite a few years now, so you can relax. Everything will be fine."

The feeling of Damon disappeared from my head and I was happy. I kept on hunting. Incubi get old when you drain them enough, and judging by what nursing home I started out in, soon I'd have new blood again. The incubi were killing people. Straight up. They had gained a reputation as a seducer through TV and books, but when an incubus got to you it was neither pleasant nor orgasmic. The incubus' sperm or whatever liquid burned and when it burned it released the life force from the cells. You didn't catch fire but it hurt a lot. And incubi liked to eat slowly. I had now emptied four incubus farms. So where they had gathered people to eat from. Women, thin, suffering, sick. And every day the incubus would come and glue its lips to the woman's lips and suck the life force out. If it didn't come. The woman was put on her back and the incubus fucked her until it came inside the woman. Then again they would kiss and suck the chi that came out with the sperm. One fucking could give Chi for maybe two or three days. And these were human beings. I was doing fucking important work and I was very proud of it. I'd got the fleas to make a group of their own for just these farms when Adam called me to come back to America. Me and Salvatore were going to do a gig together in New York.

Fine, then I came back. We were supposed to go as a couple, but me as a Mimosa and Damon as a human to track down a werewolf or werewolves that eat humans. Now these were said to be very old wolves and would not be easy to kill. Our job was to find them, shoot them with a very strong anesthetic, and then call Samuel to do the job. Of course, if the situation demanded, I was allowed to try to kill in Mimosa form but there was always a risk. Damon's job would be to find the common link between these wolves, i.e. who they were working with. Probably a woman and that's why Damon was the perfect man for the job. We would leave the next day. We went back to Samuel in Medbay, who gave Damon a tranquilizer gun. He said. " Now this is so strong that one dose will bring Mimi down. Be careful. Two doses to Mimi and she'll be in a coma and I don't know how easily awakened, so Salvatore, aim carefully. If you hit the lung or heart it's an immediate effect, the muscle 5-15 minutes. " Damon nodded and said "I've been around these substances quite a bit, I think I can handle myself. " Samuel said " Well we're here in the house, now if Mimi gets hit I might be able to help. But you've got a hotel booked where you can stay because it's quite a long way from the center. " Damon nodded and we left the medbay. We would take Damon's big SUV and change shape on the way. Then I'd be ready. We'd walk together at first before I found a scent. Then we'd take it from there.

We were both already more or less in work mode and I wasn't surprised when Damon didn't come to the bedroom for the night. I went for an early breakfast and tried to eat my fill. All about Wagyu-related topics. The other pack members pulled a roll or an egg and bacon, I fried up 4 wicked thick greasy steaks and ate them pretty rare. In recovery, our power food is intestinal puree. I can't drink it and so I always have to call the mimosa to the surface if I have to sip it, but this time the mimosa tried to get a taste of my steaks and I wouldn't let her. We would then have freedom time again after the gig. Mimosa was able to stay loose for 12 hours. I was almost done eating when Damon walked into the kitchen and took the rest of the coffee. Instead of making another one. Well, that's his problem because I had already eaten, I didn't stay to make more coffee. I went to pack up the equipment. I packed my bag full of weapons because you never know what's coming, and since we were going in Damon's car I couldn't take mine, which was fully equipped. I hadn't told anyone much about my equipment yet. I was going to go through the safe deposit boxes and enjoy the ride. But as long as I could get through medical school and get my dog show papers formalized, I'd be happy. How the world keeps throwing me in every direction. if I wanted to do something for myself like study to be a surgeon or something, I couldn't do it.

After an hour we left and Damon was quiet. I was in the back and when we were about halfway through, which was an hour's drive, I started to change. It hurt just as much as every time it has ever hurt. It doesn't get any easier, you just maybe learn to put up with it and when you know what's coming so... we got there and checked into the hotel first, I had the harness on and Damon was walking me. I was a good dog. In the hotel room, Damon was lying on the bed talking on the phone to different women. Oh really? I started barking. So loudly that the phone sex session didn't work. Then Damon looked at me for a second and realized. at least he knew he could be embarrassed. I thought, "Oh, fuck, I wish this job was quick. I can't stand to watch that for four hours while he has phone sex with strange women.

Eventually, we got to leave. I didn't say a word to Damon in my head, even though I knew him there. Ice age. This wife doesn't like that kind of behavior. I did this gig because this was important and it was not good to have werewolves eating people. We walked the streets and sniffed. After an hour, I smelled and started leading Damon down an alley. There is a dumpster that was one eaten victim that was still lukewarm. Pretty freshly eaten. Damon let me off my harness and I started tracking.

Here the smell was stronger and I didn't even care if Damon was close or not. Then I saw it. The wolf was smaller than a Mimosa but bigger than a Marrok. It was lumpy and skinny and smelled sickly. it had a wild, frantic look in its eyes, and I saw nothing human in its appearance. I knew it was going to be killed. I said to Damon in my head "I found it, come where I am. This is such a clear-cut case, there's no hope." A moment passed and Damon said in my head " I'm coming, don't interfere, let me handle this." I waited a good ten minutes and suddenly my side hurt a lot and I saw my legs go out from under me, Damon and a woman kissing. The strange wolf went to the woman and I blacked out.