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room. He cut himself off emotionally and physically from her, leaving Maxine lying on the cold hard stone floor.
                  Maxine felt naked and humiliated, she wished, almost wished the room was engulfed in darkness again so that he could not see her. With nowhere to go, she embraced her arms around herself and held tight in some way trying to find comfort.
                  He looked down at her. “You thought that what happened earlier between us meant something, didn’t you?”
                  She tried to look anywhere else but at him. She realized how foolhardy her situation had become. Her body began to shake as self-remorse washed over her; she brought her arms in tighter around herself.
                  “The vampire doesn’t want to drain you, they want to turn you. They could have killed you anytime they wanted to, but they didn’t.”  Nate looked towards the catacomb tunnels and then back at her. “They won’t let you go.”
                  “But you said that they wanted to kill me, why did you not tell me what was really going on?” not that being turned into a vampire was any better than being murdered.
                  “Everything I told you was the truth. Does it matter if I said that they wanted to kill you or wanted you’re blood to add to their line? Either way you look at it, becoming a vampire is the same as becoming the walking dead.” He replied.
                  She spun herself around facing him as she braced herself with both hands on the floor. “How am I supposed to trust you when one second you protect me with your life and the next second you’re telling me point blank that I’m about to die?”
                  Nate walked over to the torch and picked it up. With its light illuminating the whole room, he replied, “Sometime tonight you made one fatal error, you decided to trust me enough to get you out of here. I only said that I could try.”
                  The light illuminated the strong features of Nate’s face, twisting them into something horrible and frightening. Maxine pushed her body away from him with an urge to get up and run, but she knew she would never make it out with her life. “And I trusted you!” she barked back.
                  “That’s correct. You also trusted your life with a werewolf.”
     
     
     
     
     
    Chapter Fifteen
                  “Does that go for all werewolves?” the fear that Nate had seen on her face was replaced with question and uncertainty. “Is that why you have continued protecting me when you could have let the vampires have me at any time?” Her voice held and unbelieving tone. She ran her hands over her arms as if cold had come over her. She stood and walked towards him now, her body gesture was clear in how she stood. Apprehension shown all over her, and Nate knew she wanted to run.
                  He hadn’t meant to make her believe that meant to do her harm. But if she were to believe that he did, if she feared him, run from him, then cutting her from his life would make it that much easier to complete his mission and return to the pack.
                  “Not all werewolves,” he finally replied. But he made sure to take care with his words not to give her any hope of a future between them.
                  “Not all werewolves?” she stepped back further away from him.
                  His words were hitting their mark. She was preparing to run; all trust in her eyes was gone. That’s what he wanted.
                  “And you? Are you going to kill me? Is that what you’re planning?” she asked. “Kill me because I know too much?” but she still had not run. Why? Why hadn’t she run from him like he was some kind of monster? Why was she still here?
                  He didn’t want her to lay her trust in