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anyway. Logan at least
deserved to hear such distressing news from a friend—even if this was the
fourth time he'd been told.
    "You are, Logan. You're a vampire now."
    Logan was silent as he absorbed that little
piece of life-altering news. After what felt like several minutes, but was
probably much shorter, he turned his gaze to Adrian. "William gave his
life to save me, didn't he?" he asked quietly, his lips quivering as tears
started to fall from his eyes. "Why did he do that?"
    "You know why," Adrian said,
smiling sympathetically. "You gave your life to save his. Why would you
expect any less from him?"
    "What happens now?" Logan asked,
shaking his head as if he couldn't quite believe everything he was being told.
    "Until we can catch and stop whoever
killed William, I'd like for you to both stay with me."
    "What about work?" Logan asked.
    "I um…" Tyler said, hesitating.
This was one piece of information he truly didn't want to deliver.
    "You um...what?" Logan asked, his annoyance obviously rising once more.
    "You resigned."
    "What?" Logan screeched in a voice
so high pitched that it made Tyler's ears ring. Judging by Adrian's wince Tyler
wasn't the only one to feel pain. "Why would I do that?"
    "Relax, Logan," Adrian said, his voice very stern, almost as if he were talking to
a recalcitrant child.
    "Why the fuck should I relax?" He
turned angry eyes on Tyler. "You destroyed my career while I was sleeping!"
    "That's not fair, Logan." Adrian's
tone of voice brooked no argument. "When you calm down you'll realize that
Tyler did the only thing for you that he could under the circumstances."
    "But—"
    Adrian cut him off before he could argue
further. "You can't go out in the sunlight. You know that. At least by
putting in your resignation Tyler made it possible for you to stay in town for
a few more years."
    "He should have waited."
    "For what?" Adrian asked in a perfectly reasonable tone. "For
you to not be a vampire?"
    Logan shook his head, tears beginning to
stream down his face as he mumbled an apology. "What's wrong with me?"
he asked suddenly. It was clear that he realized this wasn't his normal
behavior, which in turn just seemed to make him angrier.
    "It's mostly from the change,"
Adrian said, touching Tyler's shoulder comfortingly as he moved closer to look
at Logan's eyes. "I believe it's kind of like a hormone imbalance. Your
body is going through a rather traumatic experience, so it's reasonable to
assume it will affect your moods for a while, too."
    "Vampire PMS?" Logan asked in a sulky tone of voice.
    "That would be my guess," Adrian
said with a soft laugh, still studying Logan's eyes the way a doctor might. "You're
probably hungry, as well. Tyler has agreed to be your donor, but until you've
figured out how to use your fangs correctly, I suggest you let him choose where
and how you bite him."
    "What?" Logan asked in a small
voice.
    "I…If you don't want…We can maybe find
you someone else," Tyler said unsteadily. "I just…It's important for us
to keep your condition quiet."
    "Huh?" It apparently took a few
moments for Logan to understand that Tyler thought his offer to help was being
rejected.
    "Tyler," Logan said in a pleading
tone, "it's not you." He blinked rapidly, trying to clear the tears,
but it was obvious that he could barely see them through the blur of salt
water. "I mean, thank you for volunteering. I'm very grateful. I just wish
I knew what I was doing. I lived with William for six years. Why didn't I ask
him about any of this?"
    Logan dragged in a deep breath, and it
finally occurred to Tyler that even as a vampire Logan still seemed to need
oxygen.
    "Adrian knows enough about vampires to
help us both get through this," Tyler said as he reached a hand out to his
best friend.
    "I'm sorry," Logan said, obviously
very frustrated by the conflicting emotions running through him. He squeezed
Tyler's fingers lightly. "I've been emotional before, but this feels more
like an insane overload."
    "You