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with seemed full of wisdom. “This is my wife, Isabelle. We have come to seek your assistance.”
     
    “Your wife?” I asked, in disbelief. “Our assistance? What?”
     
    “Amy.” He drew closer, lowering his voice. “It is not a secret in the vampire world that you and Liam are formulating a plan.”
     
    I had suspected they were vampires, but this had confirmed it. Despite her appearance, Isabelle must be a lot older than she looked.
     
    “What plan?” I asked cautiously, in case this was a trap.
     
    “A plan to kill Selene, and free us fro m this curse,” Connor said.
     
    My shoulders relaxed. “Yes. We are.”
     
    “Then,” he said, putting his arm around Isabelle, who had still not said a word. “We would like to offer our assistance.”
     
    I relaxed completely. “Selene is your sire too?”
     
    “Yes. Many years ago, too many to remember. But Isabelle and I are tired of living this vampire life. We have been immortal and lived as immortals should. We have lived under Selene’s thumb, controlling us like puppets. We are now ready to return to a human life, to grow old and have children together.”
     
    “She’s controlling you?” I asked, surprised.
     
    Connor looked to his wife, who nodded. “Selene uses all of her vampires to her will.”
     
    “Not Liam!” I cried.
     
    Connor raised an eyebrow. “No? Selene successfully managed to use Liam to lure in the DeRitter Shield, a threat to her immortality.”
     
    My eyes widened as a thousand thought s swirled in my head. No, it couldn’t be. We were in charge of that plan, we were the ones who made sure…
     
    “No!”
     
    But Connor’s steely gaze told me everything I had believed was wrong. While we thought we had the upper hand, Selene had used it to her advantage. It made me hate her even more.
     
    “I can take you to Liam,” I said, pointing in the direction I had just come. “Come on.”
     
    I took a few steps forward, and they followed, i n sync. My mind whirled as I led the way to Liam’s office. I wasn’t sure whether to feel relieved that we were getting help or frightened that these random strangers knew about it.
     
    The following morning, there was a knock on my door. Looking at the time, I figured it was Sarah wanting to come in and discuss the excitement of the night before. I had brought Connor and Isabelle to Liam, who took one look at them and shut the door behind us. He had asked for privacy, and although the last thing I wanted to do was leave, I let them be. I figured they had a story to tell and feelings to share. Things that I could not yet hope to understand. While he didn’t seem to have known them from before, there was some sort of understanding between them, some sort of vampire link I wasn’t privy to.
     
    I knew that he would fill me in when he was done, and I went back to my room to wait. I told Sarah the whole story. I never did make it to the library, instead I researched on the Internet until midnight. Exhausted, I fell asleep.
     
    “Hey,” I said, opening the door and about to turn around and shuffle back to bed. But it wasn’t Liam or Sarah standing there. It was an unfamiliar male, standing at least 6’2”, with high cheek bones, and scruffy facial hair. “Can I… help you?”
     
    “Are you Amy?”
     
    “Not again.” I buried my head in my hands, holding open the door. “Let me guess. Liam? Selene?”
     
    The vampire’s mouth hung open.
     
    “How did you know…?”
     
    “Experience,” I said dryly, reaching for my phone. “Come on in. I’ll call Liam.”
     
    Over the next few days, word spread like wild fire as more and more vampires arrived at the school. For some reason, all of them sought me out first, perhaps afraid to approach the reputation that was Liam. They assured us that our plan to kill Selene was being kept quiet, whispered in underground circles and put in prayers of safety. Some of them were old, some of them brand-new, but all of them had been