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destroyed their own children.
    He folded her against him.
    “She was a fucking nutcase.  Your mother had some issues, I don’t  know what, but they were hers, not yours.  Sex is spectacular, and honey, you were made for it.  There’s nothing filthy or wrong about it.  It’s a natural as breathing.  If I prove nothing else to you during our time together, I’ll prove that.  You need to exorcise your fucking crazy mother.”
    “But I’m not good enough, she told me that.”
    What the hell?  Bas lifted her in his arms and carried her through the bedroom into the living room, just brushed the edge of a vase, and winced as it crashed to the floor and shattered.  Park shook her head.  He dropped her on the enormous crushed velvet sofa.  Wow, she liked big furniture.  He sat down beside her. 
    “People are cruel.  Your mother was sick, I’m telling you.  I’ve been alive a long time and I know what I’m talking about.  You are a beautiful woman, you deserve whatever you want in life.  You’ve obviously worked hard and look where you are.  Honey, when I’m finished with you, you’ll chuck everything your mother ever said to you.  But now, you need to pack a few things.  We’re leaving in twenty minutes.”  A chirping from his pocket interrupted them.  He pulled a cell phone out and flipped it up.  “Excuse me,” he said to Park.  “Bas,” he said into the phone.
    He listened for a few minutes.  Park watched his face as it got harder and harder.  When he finally responded, it was harsh.
    “Ah, fuck me!  Desiree, get to my keep in Vancouver.  Bring your blood-bonds.  Notify every one you can in the east.  I’ll take care of anyone across the continental divide.  I’ll be there in about twenty two hours.  Be careful.  Arm up.”  He closed the cell and slid it into his pocket.
    “Well, this is so much worse than I thought.  Someone is killing blood-bonded humans attached to vampires across the states.  Now they’ve killed two vampires.  It looks like someone has declared war on my race.  Let’s go.”
    Park didn’t question him this time. Her ability to read his truth made it clear…they were both in terrible danger.  He was her only hope of living through this, she knew it now.
    “I want to take a quick shower.”  She said it as a statement, not a question.  He nodded.
    “Make it quick…and don’t wash…there,” he said, and she blushed again.  He laughed.  But as Park went into her bath area, she smiled. He was the one who was naughty.  And she thought she liked it.
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    Chapter Five
     
     
    They were traveling the same path they’d travelled before, but Park had picked up her speed.  Bas spent the first half hour of the journey texting, and when he finally snapped his cell closed and pocketed it, he laid his head back.
    “Man, this is fucked.  And unprecedented.  Vampires by tradition have always followed truce…no one interferes with that which does not belong to them.  Vampires do not kill vampires.  There aren’t even that many of us.”
    “I know I might sound naïve, but can’t you just make more?”
    “We don’t want to make more.  As irritating as most people can be, can you imagine dealing with them for an eternity?  It’s true that we are immortal, or nearly so.  You have to be very careful who you bring over.”
    “And there’s the fact that you have to die to do it.”
    Bas groaned.  “Movies.  Vampires are not dead.  We are not the living dead.  We are just altered at the genetic level into a different race of beings.  For lack of a better description, it’s kind of like a super virus.  It rewrites what you are.  The changes are extreme and irreversible.  That’s why we can eat, need to sleep, can get tired or injured.  We are not dead.”
    “Oh,” said Park.  Her mind was reeling now.  Genetic research was her life’s work.  And her professional curiosity just got whammed.