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    “No, he’s not here.” Ezra shook his head. “We have
one more flight to make.”
    “Really?” I wrinkled my nose. Even though I had slept
through this flight, my body felt stiff.
    “Just up to northern Finland, in the Lapland,” Ezra
said as if that meant anything to me. “I’ll explain more once we
land. We have another layover.”
    “Fantastic,” I sighed.
    We got off the plane, and Ezra got everything sorted
for the next flight. I made sure to hang out by a large window. I
was determined to admire the view of Helsinki. Not that there was a
view from the airport. It was mostly planes, landing strips, and
traffic. But that was more than I had seen in New York.
    “It really is a beautiful city,” Ezra said, coming up
to stand next to me.
    We watched a plane taxi down the runway. He knew I
was trying to catch a glimpse of something I would miss entirely. I
sighed but refused to leave my post at the window.
    “You’ve stayed here before?” I asked.
    “Many times, mostly before Mae.” He nodded. “I’ve
managed to drag her out here a few times, but she doesn’t like to
leave Minnesota very much. But Peter loves it here.”
    “How come?”
    “The cold, the dark, the wilderness, the seclusion.
He stays further up north. They have a few national parks and some
ski resorts. And Helsinki, Stockholm, Amsterdam, they’re not that
far away, whenever he requires bustling city life.”
    The way he said
“ life ” I knew he
meant more than dinner and a show. Actually, he just meant dinner.
Peter might enjoy isolation, but he needed a population to eat,
preferably a mixture of vampires and people. Vampire bars and blood
banks made eating so much easier, and the fewer the people, the
less the options.
    “So that’s where we’re going? Up north?” I turned to
Ezra. “What’d you call it? The Lapland?”
    “Yeah. It’s the northern most territory in Finland.”
He took a deep breath, and he sounded reluctant when he continued.
“There’s something I haven’t told you.”
    “There’s lots of things you haven’t told me.”
    “This is important.” He licked his lips and shifted
his gaze. “You’ve heard stories of werewolves, right?”
    My stomach dropped. Sure, I may be a vampire, but
there were certain things I couldn’t take. Like finding out an
endless stream of monsters and folklore were real. After this,
maybe we’d roll with a Yeti or go swimming with the Lochness
Monster and a Leprechaun.
    There had to be some point where fiction remained
fiction, and I was determined that it ended immediately after
vampires.
    “No, no, no.” I shook my head. “Jack told me there
weren’t any werewolves. There’s no such thing.”
    “No, there’s not,” Ezra agreed. “Shape shifting of
any kind is an impossibility. Or at least as far as I know.”
    “So…” My heart slowed a little, but he was still
holding something back. “Why even bring them up?”“You’ve heard the
stories about them, though, haven’t you?” His deep brown eyes
looked at me intently.
    “Yeah,” I answered uncertainly.
    My knowledge of werewolves was very
limited, and mostly based on Michael J. Fox’s portrayal in Teen Wolf . I had never
thought the film was very factual, because I couldn’t imagine how
surfing on a van could be possible, werewolf or not. The only thing
I carried from it was that wolves were good at basketball. This
information did not seem pertinent to the situation.
    “How the full moon makes them come out, and they
attack without reproach?” Ezra went on. “They turn into vicious
animals, unfettered by remorse or logic.”
    “Okay, sure,” I nodded, hoping he would just hurry
and make his point.
    “Do you remember when I told you about the vampires I
had encountered when I first turned?” He grew more solemn. “They
were … rabid animals.”
    “You’re not… they’re not…” I faltered. “What are you
saying exactly?”
    “Sometimes, some vampires, either by choice