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a flash of hate, even though I didn’t
know him. I forced the gun harder against his side. “What’s your
name?”
    “Screw you,” he spat.
    I shook my head. “That’s ok, I don’t need to
know your name. I only need to know who you are taking these blood
bags to.”
    The man laughed. “Yeah right. If I tell you
that, I’m dead anyway, so you’re out of luck, buddy.”
    “I’m not your buddy,” I practically growled,
slamming him forward. “Your name?”
    “His name is, Lawrence!” Alec whined from
within Christina’s grasp. “Now let us go.”
    Lawrence turned his head to glare at his
partner. “Shut up, loser.”
    These two were idiots.
    “I still need to know where you’re taking
these blood bags.”
    The man didn’t move beneath my grip. “Not a
chance,” he mumbled. And then suddenly, I could feel all his
crimes, all of his evil, all of his anger and I felt like snapping
his neck. It all flooded into me as if it were part of my own
memory.
    “Zander?” Christina’s voice was stern, yet
woven with a worried undertone. “Stay with me.”
    What good would he be if I left him to
wander the earth? He would only continue to serve the vampires and
hurt people.
    Then, that bastard decided he would take the
opportunity to fight back. He pulled free and swung in a wide arc.
His fist connected with my face. My cheekbone took the impact of
his knuckles, but I barely felt it and I sure as hell didn’t act as
if I did.
    He lunged, prepared to run, but I was in
front of him in an instant. I had my gun in one hand, but I pushed
him back with my left. He staggered backward, stumbling into the
side of the truck. Without really thinking, I holstered my gun and
took hold of his sweatshirt and wrapped it in my fist and then hit
him with an uppercut to the abdomen. “What part of ‘don’t move’ did
you not understand?”
    He said nothing.
    “You are corrupt and the world would be
better off without you. I withdrew my weapon again, this time
holding it to his forehead to make sure he would feel the severity
of the situation. “All it would take is one bullet.” I shook him
hard. “Just one.”
    Then, the Dragon I held captive had the
audacity to spit at me. He let it fly, several tiny drops of
spittle landed on my face.
    I nearly lost it. I wanted to pull that
trigger so badly. To just be done with it and bring society one
step closer to becoming a better place. On one hand, I hated that I
felt like that. On the other hand, it felt awesome.
    Not that I’d ever done drugs, but I was
pretty sure that was what an addict felt like.
    I cleared my throat before speaking. “I
don’t think you realize just how delicate your situation is right
now, Lawrence. I hold your life in my hands. Don’t ever do that
again.”
    He shook his head as if trying to erase what
was happening, to make it all disappear. “I’m still not telling you
jack. You will have to kill me first.”
    I tilted my head before answering. “That
shouldn’t be a problem.”
    “Zander, we can’t stay here all night,”
Christina warned me.
    She was right, sooner or later someone was
bound to come by. “I know.” I paused and thought for a moment.
“Let’s just take them with us.”
    Her eyes widened. “No.”
    “We have no other choice,” I insisted. “We
can’t just let them go.”
    The sigh she released was not one of
pleasure. “Crap.”
    “I’m taking that as agreement,” I told her,
and then I tightened my grip on Lawrence. “Look in the truck and
see if there is anything in there to tie their hands with. And
blindfold them.”
    She pushed Alec over to stand with his
buddy. I pointed my gun at him. “You even think about moving and
I’ll shoot you. Got it?”
    Alec nodded. It was only about a minute
before Christina emerged from the truck with some rope and an old
tee shirt. We used the rope to bind their hands behind their backs
and then cut the tee shirt in half so that we could wrap it around
eyes. I patted them