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Death stalked toward us on padded feet.       And it was not alone.Melika Dannese Lux
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Not all vampires are created equal, you know.Melika Dannese Lux
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Stefan needed me. Ha! Stefan needed me, as what? His next meal?Melika Dannese Lux
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Don’t listen to the ramblings of fools, ” he said, smiling grimly. “When it comes down to it, if they knew the truth, no one would want to live on this earth forever.Melika Dannese Lux
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I’m not asking for your forgiveness. I have done no wrong according to my kind. I never meant to turn you. I just wanted to have a little fun with you before they took you away.Melika Dannese Lux
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If I were pressed, I would admit that she was beautiful, in a dead bride sort of way.Melika Dannese Lux
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Maybe I had been making a greater monster of him than he really was, or maybe I was still under his influence, for I was certain that he wanted me to believe he was no more than a harmless man who happened to use vampirism to get what he desired. Some remnant of his mesmerism was still upon me. I had never been able to shake the feeling that he was tucked away in a corner of my mind, that he could read my thoughts, know what I was thinking. He had done something to me, but what that was, I had never been able to discover. All I knew was that the feeling had been with me since the morning I woke up and found myself in Venice.Melika Dannese Lux
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She is so tiresome. ‘Am I a vampire, am I a wolf, am I a vampire, am I a wolf, I cannot decide, so I’ll be both!Melika Dannese Lux
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Because, my dear Eric, I have tasted the secret knowledge. I know how much to say and when to pull back. I know what to see and not see. And now that I have become whole again, I can never go back. All these things he has given me. Better than my supposed mother and father ever could. For that, I owe him my life and allegiance.Melika Dannese Lux
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How does one go on after doing such unspeakable things? It'sall rather simple, really, " he continued, speaking in someone else's voice. "Say to yourself, 'What things?' And it becomes clear..you are blameless. They brought it on themselves. What have they ever done for you except control your life? They tore you away from your sister; they ripped you from your home. Did you ask to be saved? No! Forget them and start over..with us, your true family, my Corcitura, my own.Melika Dannese Lux