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to somehow blame it on them.
 I found the note taped to my door when I got home from work. I'd had the

lunch-to-early-evening shift at Merlotte's, but since we were at the tail end of December, the day

darkened early. So Bill, my former boyfriendтАФthat's Bill Compton, or Vampire Bill, as most of the

regulars at Merlotte's call himтАФmust have left his message within the previous hour. He can't get up until

dark.

I hadn't seen Bill in over a week, and our parting hadn't been a happy one. But touching the

envelope with my name written on it made me feel miserable. You'd thinkтАФthough I'm twenty-sixтАФI'd

never had, and lost, a boyfriend before.

You'd be right.

Normal guys don't want to date someone as strange as I am. People have been saying I'm

messed up in the head since I started school.

They're right.

That's not to say I don't get groped at the bar occasionally. Guys get drunk. I look good. They

forget their misgivings about my reputation for strangeness and my ever-present smile.

But only Bill has ever gotten close to me in an intimate way. Parting from him had hurt me bad.

I waited to open the envelope until I was sitting at the old, scarred kitchen table. I still had my

coat on, though I'd shucked my gloves.

Dearest SookieтАФI wanted to come over to talk to you when you had somewhat recovered

from the unfortunate events of earlier this month.

"Unfortunate events," my round rear end. The bruises had finally faded, but I had a knee that still

ached in the cold, and I suspected that it always would. Every injury I had incurred had been in the

course of rescuing my cheating boyfriend from his imprisonment by a group of vampires that included his

former flame, Lorena. I had yet to figure out why Bill had been so infatuated with Lorena that he'd

answered her summons to Mississippi.
 Probably, you have a lot of questions about what happened.