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return a favor,” one of the Royals spoke up who stood behind me.
     
    “It all equals out in the end,” another vampire responded back. “We should all just be thankful for such an alliance.”
     
    Cheers went around though low and a tad unconvincing, still we all tried to keep our spirits focused, to talk the talk so we could walk the walk. This fact alone shook me to my core. Not that I would have called any of us cocky, but we had a way of holding ourselves, being confident, believing in our abilities that this man had damaged by taking so much from each side. I didn’t believe it fear, but each of us he had hurt, and all of us were weary. I tried to at least keep that in mind as I missed the bravado I’d experienced last time.
     
    “I’m happy to see you looking so well,” Nira said, obviously changing the subject as she led us to waiting SUVs. “Marriage has agreed with you.”
     
    “Yes, it definitely has,” I said, looking back at Lex a second. “Not to mention life on that island, magical powers, being a werewolf. It has been the most amazing seven months. I hope to find the time to bore you to death talking your ear off about it.”
     
    “I hope so too. I’m so happy for you. You deserve this. I did a little digging into that file of yours that I’d been sent before and never had a chance to read before that battle. You have had a hard life, yet you have proven yourself a survivor. You deserved that time. Wish it could have been more as I wish you had come back for a visit under different circumstances. We shall get that time though. One day. And, I will not be bored in the least.”
     

Chapter Five
     
    Nira and her vampires brought the group who were stuffed into a few black SUV’s close to an outlying area of woods near to their safe house. Nira had explained on the ride there that they’d had to find yet another one, as each one prior had been attacked by Daniel and his pack. To be overly cautious, not drawing attention to ourselves with big, expensive vehicles in a rundown neighborhood, or with a large amount of people going into one house, we’d had to make a trek the rest of the way, splitting up into groups, using the dark of night to file into the ramshackle house undetected by houses of people that never seemed to sleep, according to one vampire.
     
    “It has saddened us to see such deplorable conditions. Not that we haven’t worked in such neighborhoods before, but to live in one is a completely different matter,” a vampire with slicked black hair and pale skin, who actually looked like a movie vamp unlike most of them, stated as we entered. “We formed a fake family that are the only ones to show themselves outside of the house for appearances sake, and we have gotten quite the education.”
     
    “We’ve been talking in the brief moments we either have the time or need the distraction about changing how we operate,” a pretty blond, female vampire picked up the conversation as I twirled a strand of my hair as if it helped me to think. “We help people, but we need to redefine what it means to need help. Physical injury is not the only cause. These people need our help in so many ways.”
     
    “They really do,” another vampire chimed in, one who looked much younger, like a teenager, yet spoke with years of hard-earned wisdom. “So many humans are afraid, with good reason, to come into these neighborhoods and help. I mean if you end up dead, really what good can you do? But, for us, the immortal, with our strength and speed, our means, we could do so much good without any fear.”
     
    “That would be amazing,” I managed, as always, blown away by this group most would be terrified of, misjudge, if they ever chanced to meet them. 
     
    Television, movies and books had done the group such an injustice. Not that many didn’t want to be fictional vampires, but none would want to meet them in real life, not how they were so inaccurately portrayed. When all of this