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to intercept the shooter even though she knew she would likely be shot before she ever got to him.  He paused just long enough to shove her so violently she fell against the floor hard enough to hit her head on the concrete under the thin linoleum.  Flashes of light interrupted her vision, but she tried to get back up as the room went silent when the concussive expulsions stopped. 
    Her eyes went immediately to the big vampire crumpled on the floor, his blood splattered all over walls and cabinets in her small kitchen.  Bryn wasn’t moving, and with all the bullet holes in his chest, she knew he was dead.
    So did the shooter.  The wel l-dressed man turned to her and, with a brutally tight grip on her arm, pulled her to him. 
    Lauren immediately went ballistic, yanking and kicking at the man, but he grabbed her by the throat, hauled her close to him, and grinned.
    “You’re a clever bitch, I’ll give you that.  I’ve chase d you for nearly this entire fucking year.  Now, all I have to do is get you back to France. This asshole vampire nearly screwed that up, but I’m resourceful and motivated.”
    He looked at the other big man that had come through the door first to attack Bryn.
    “Thanks.  Good work.  Tell Cheeto I appreciate it.  Get out of here.”
    The big man left without a word.  Well-dressed guy turned back to his captured prey.
    “Now, I know you won’t come willingly, so I’m going to have to subdue you.”
    “No,” Lauren told him quickly.  “I’ll come with you.  With no resistance.”
    Claude tightened his grip on her throat for just a moment as he tilted his head.  “Yeah.  I’ve been watching you for the past three weeks.  The first chance you get, you’ll blow my brains out.  I’m good at what I do, little lady, and I am just not that gullible.  And don’t try seduction.  You may be hot, but you aren’t my type.”
    Twisting her around suddenly, he shoved her onto the blankets that stretched across her floor, smashing her face into them enough to bury her nose so tight into the fabric, she could barely breathe.  Lauren thought about the fact that Bryn had just moments earlier laid them there so they could make love.  Earlier when she had lamented that her life sucked, she realized it could have sucked so much more.  And now it did.
    She wasn’t worried about Bryn, bullets wouldn’t kill him forever, but she knew her days of freedom were over.  She had no doubt, this bounty hunter was from the SRS.  All she could look forward to now was torture and eventually, a violent death.
    He kept his knee in her back, his full weight on her so that she couldn’t move at all.  Moments later she felt a sting in her shoulder.
    “What the hell?”  She said before she realized that she had been drugged. 
    Yeah, she had .  It was apparent in the next few moments when the world started getting fuzzier.  Her final thought before Lauren lost consciousness was that she wished her abductor could have waited one more night.  One more night so that she could have felt Bryn on top of her.  And inside her.  The room darkened and then nothing.

 
     
     
     
     
    FOUR
     
     
    Bryn startled awake.  Fuck, he hurt like hell!  He stood shakily and looked around, taking his bearings. It took a moment for the events to become clear as he searched the tiny apartment, furniture shoved against the walls, blood splattered all over the food preparation area.
    When he looked down at his naked body filled with holes that were already beginning to heal, he realized the blood was his.  What the hell had happened?
    Lauren! The space was small, no other rooms except what he assumed was a bathroom, and as he walked over to it to look inside, he already knew she wasn’t there.  He clearly remembered the events now.  He’d been attacked by a large human man, too weak to have subdued Bryn for long, but then he’d been fatally shot moments later by a second man.  And Lauren was gone.
    Why