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Chapter 4
    As soon as she spoke the words, the pain began to ebb. It was so powerful and so overwhelming that it took a few minutes, but it was disappearing. His muscles, sore from being clenched, repaired themselves, and his cheeks dried from the tears. Very carefully, almost as if he didn’t trust it, he sat up.
    “Wow,” he said, feeling his head gingerly. “You did it. It’s gone”
    She sniffled.
    “Yes. While I’m beside you, they can’t hurt you. Give it a few minutes, but your fangs should be able to grow again. As long as I’m close to you, nothing supernatural can affect you, including other Shields.”
    “So as soon as you go away…”
    “You should probably have the clots taken out,” she said, ruefully. “It’s not dangerous now that you aren’t mortal.”
    “ Carmen,” he turned to her. “You saved my life. And you put the fate of your immortality in my hands.”
    “You were dying,” she said, plainly. “I had to do something.”
    “You didn’t have to,” he said, reaching to take her hand.
    “Of course I did,” she replied. “You are brother to my husband. Nothing could change that.”
    “Thank you,” he said, squeezing her hand. “Thank you.”
    They were interrupted by the yell of Shields outside the door. Clearly, they were trying to increase their power, to affect Cooper faster. But Carmen was the most powerful Shield of them all, and nothing can take down the barrier she had put around the vampire prince. And when it came down to it, Shields were mortal, nothing more than weak humans, and even a hundred of them posed no threat to an immortal vampire, a Prince.
    “No problem,” she said, although it clearly was a big issue. She pushed herself up against the wall, brushing her hair off her face. Everything was different now.
    “Are you ready?” Cooper asked, and she nodded. With newly gained vampire strength, he pushed aside the tomb door as if it were plywood. Outside, the gathered Shields gasped. Carmen stepped forward into the moonlight, glancing at him. Because she was a Shield, she had never seen a vampire in full form before. Whenever she got within seeing distance, her powers had always affected them.
    Seeing Cooper now, she saw why people were so afraid if they chose to show themselves as they really were. With fangs and blackened eyes, his skin pale as ice, he looked like a monster, standing tall in the night.
    “That wasn’t a very nice thing you did,” he said, shaking his head. “What have I ever done to you?”
    “Traitor!”
    Carmen heard the gun shot before she could even react or brace herself. But with vampire speed, Cooper caught the bullet before it hit her, dropping it to the ground.
    “And that was even meaner. Carmen is one of your kind. Family is everything.”
    “ Carmen is a rebel scum!” came a cry.
    “Is she now?” Cooper bared his teeth. “because I see it differently. I just saw a girl give up everything she had hoped for, for the love of my brother and his family. That doesn’t seem like rebellious to me. And if she is a beast to you, than she won’t mind if I rip you to shreds?”
    She could only see anger, only fury, at the scene that had taken place. These people were no family of hers, and she was embarrassed to say that she was their kind.
    “Do it,” she said, her chin raised high. “For I am their Queen, Cooper, and they should learn to live by my law now.”
    It was what all those years of being with James had taught her, to be a good leader, and that it was better to be feared than loved. She was sick of hiding her whole life, sick of wondering about her powers and only getting the cold shoulder. Sick of the choices she made in love and in life holding her back. No more.
    Cooper wiped the last of the blood away from his mouth before they climbed in the car. To his credit, he didn’t kill many. Even a vampire Prince knew the balance that Shields brought to nature, and so he slaughtered only those who had harmed