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"How old is your daughter?"

"She's seventeen."

"That's only a year away from being legal, Ms. Mackenzie. Once
she turns eighteen, if she wants to become a vampire, you can't
stop her legally."

"You say that so calmly. Do you approve?"

I took in a deep breath and let it out, slow. "I'd be willing to talk to
your daughter, try to talk her out of it. But how do you know that
tonight is the night? It has to be three bites within a very short
space of time or the body fights off the infection, or whatever the
hell it is." Scientists were still arguing about exactly what made
someone become a vampire. There were biological differences
before and after, but there was also a certain level of mysticism
involved, and science has always been bad at deciphering that kind
of thing.

"The bites were fresh, Ms. Blake. I called the man who gave the
lecture at our school and he said to come to you."

"Who was he?"

"Jeremy Ruebens."

I frowned now. "I didn't know he'd gotten out of jail," I said.

Her eyes went wide. "Jail?"

"He didn't mention in his talk that he was jailed for conspiracy to
commit murderЧover a dozen counts, maybe hundreds. He was
head of Humans First when they tried to wipe out all the vampires
and some of the shape-shifters in St. Louis."

"He talked about that," she said. "He said he would never have
condoned such violence and that it was done without his
knowledge."

I smiled and knew from the feel of it that it was unpleasant.
"Jeremy Ruebens once sat in the chair you're in now and told me
that Humans First's goal was to destroy every vampire in the United
States."

She just looked at me, and I let it go. She would believe what she
wanted to believe, most people did.

"Ms. Mackenzie, whether you, or I, or Jeremy Ruebens, approve,