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.I was able tofinish with no problems, I said, realizing as I did how weak the words sounded. Well, that s great.I m sure you passed and you ll find out for sure real soon. Hervoice was flat again, my wonderful surprise nothing more than wishful thinking.My joy was almost gone as I trudged along the sidewalk, trying to find the lotwhere I d parked my car. Is Diego there? I asked desperately.My little brother wasthe only one in my family who still treated me the same.When we were kids he didolized me and somehow, despite my non-shifter status, he d never stopped.He wasin his early twenties now but I was still his wonderful big sister and I knew he would beexcited about my news even if nobody else at my parents house was. Sure. My mom sounded relieved to get off the phone. I ll get him. 38 Deal with the DevilIn a moment my little brother s voice filled my ear. Hey, hermana! Haven t heardfrom you in a wolf s age.How s it going? Hey, hermano, I returned.Though the rest of my immediate family had somehowlost their Hispanic heritage in the ever-increasing quest to climb the social ladder, Diegohad stubbornly clung to his.He d taken Spanish all through high school and had evenspent a semester abroad in Spain.Of course, the Castilian Spanish spoken there was afar cry from the fast-paced Cuban-influenced dialect more common in Tampa but Diegowas fairly fluent and every time we talked he tried to teach me new words.I decided to get right to the point. I took the Bar exam again today, I told him,finally finding my car and slipping my key in the lock.It was like an oven inside and Iwinced as I jammed the key in the ignition and twisted it before turning the AC on fullblast. Hey, cool.So how d you do? Diego s words were casual but I knew he was justtrying to be careful of my feelings.He, more than anyone else in my family, understoodmy struggle during important tests. It went well this time. I felt my joy bubbling back to the surface. Really well, infact.I m sure I passed. You did? Awesome! That s great, Luz I knew you could do it. His immediateaffirmation was like a balm to my wounded soul.I had to blink tears out of my eyesbefore I could back out of the parking lot. Thanks, little brother.That means a lot. Aw, don t get all mushy on me. Like most males, Diego was uncomfortablearound emotional females so I made an effort to butch up. Sorry.It s just& nobody else understands.I ve been working for this for so long. You sure as hell have.So what was different this time? You didn t feel nervous? Nervous was an understatement as anyone who s ever had a full-fledged panicattack can attest to, but I was willing to let it slide. No, I wasn t, I told my brother. Imet someone who helped me. What like a therapist? Not exactly& I hesitated.No one in my family would approve of what I haddone what I was in the process of doing, really, since I still had to see Jude again atleast twice more.But I wanted so badly to share my joy that I decided to take a chance. He s a vampire, I said and waited for a minute to let it sink in. A what? Diego s voice sounded as horrified as though I d told him I had found afriendly talking rattlesnake to help me pass the Bar. A vampire, I said, determined not to let his reaction throw me. His name is JudeJacobson.You d like him. I said this with a little less conviction.But then again, whocould help liking Jude? He was so kind and gentle and polite well, to me anyway.Even my brother, alpha wolf that he was, would like a vampire like Jude.39 Evangeline AndersonBut Diego was making sputtering sounds at the other end of the phone.At last Irealized he was so upset he could barely get the words out. Jude Jacobson? hemanaged to spit out at last. The Jude Jacobson? What do you mean, the Jude Jacobson? How many can there be? I demanded. Jude Jacobson who runs half the Tampa Bay area and has the other half in hispocket? Jude Jacobson even other vampires are afraid of because he s such a ruthlessbastard? That s crazy, I said dismissively, honking my horn at the guy in front of me whowas stopped at a green light fumbling with his cell phone. That must be someone else.My Jude isn t like that. Listen to you your Jude, Diego sneered. Well, he s not. I felt put on the defensive and wished I hadn t said anything at all. There must be two different vampire Judes because what you re describing isn tanything like him. Well, not when he s with me, anyway, I thought, remembering themenacing darkness I d seen peeking out from his polite outer façade when he d beenpissed off at Banner that first night. Trust me, there s only one of this guy.If there were two we d all be fucked. Mylittle brother took a deep breath that sounded like static on my end of the line. Bigguy six four or five? Blond hair, shoulders like a linebacker? Well& yes, I said slowly. But listen, Diego, he s a nice guy and he really helpedme out. What by helping you study? Showing you flashcards that kind of shit? Not exactly, I hedged. Then how? I didn t really want to say at this point but I knew Diego would never let it dropuntil I confessed. I-I drank some of his blood.It helped me concentrate kept me fromgetting all panicky and blowing the test.Okay? No not okay.Not okay at all.You actually drank his blood? The disgust in mylittle brother s voice was the same as if I d said I drank a bottle of the vampire s sweator some other, even more unmentionable substance. Not a lot of it, I protested, angry at having to defend myself. A little taste andlike I said, it helped me.I d do it again. Diego s response was immediate. Don t you dare! He s dangerous, Luz you needto stay away from him.Far away. How do you know so much about him, anyway? I snapped. My pack master, Julio Sanchez.He told us that this Jude Jacobson of yours gotangry at the pack master over in Clear Water.He wouldn t do business with Jacobsonor maybe he just looked at him wrong, I don t know.So So he doesn t get along with weres he s a vampire, what do you expect? 40 Deal with the Devil That wasn t what I was going to say. Diego s voice dropped. I was going to say,so they found the pack master the next night in the woods outside their huntinggrounds.He d been skinned alive and his hide was nailed to a tree. My God. I would have put a hand to my mouth but since I was still driving withone hand and holding my cell phone with the other, I didn t have one to spare. Did helive? I asked.A human wouldn t have survived such a horrible fate but shifters aretough. Yeah, he made it.But he might never be able to change again.He was skinnedwhile he was in his wolf form and the hide was nailed up with pure silver completelyruined. 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.I was able tofinish with no problems, I said, realizing as I did how weak the words sounded. Well, that s great.I m sure you passed and you ll find out for sure real soon. Hervoice was flat again, my wonderful surprise nothing more than wishful thinking.My joy was almost gone as I trudged along the sidewalk, trying to find the lotwhere I d parked my car. Is Diego there? I asked desperately.My little brother wasthe only one in my family who still treated me the same.When we were kids he didolized me and somehow, despite my non-shifter status, he d never stopped.He wasin his early twenties now but I was still his wonderful big sister and I knew he would beexcited about my news even if nobody else at my parents house was. Sure. My mom sounded relieved to get off the phone. I ll get him. 38 Deal with the DevilIn a moment my little brother s voice filled my ear. Hey, hermana! Haven t heardfrom you in a wolf s age.How s it going? Hey, hermano, I returned.Though the rest of my immediate family had somehowlost their Hispanic heritage in the ever-increasing quest to climb the social ladder, Diegohad stubbornly clung to his.He d taken Spanish all through high school and had evenspent a semester abroad in Spain.Of course, the Castilian Spanish spoken there was afar cry from the fast-paced Cuban-influenced dialect more common in Tampa but Diegowas fairly fluent and every time we talked he tried to teach me new words.I decided to get right to the point. I took the Bar exam again today, I told him,finally finding my car and slipping my key in the lock.It was like an oven inside and Iwinced as I jammed the key in the ignition and twisted it before turning the AC on fullblast. Hey, cool.So how d you do? Diego s words were casual but I knew he was justtrying to be careful of my feelings.He, more than anyone else in my family, understoodmy struggle during important tests. It went well this time. I felt my joy bubbling back to the surface. Really well, infact.I m sure I passed. You did? Awesome! That s great, Luz I knew you could do it. His immediateaffirmation was like a balm to my wounded soul.I had to blink tears out of my eyesbefore I could back out of the parking lot. Thanks, little brother.That means a lot. Aw, don t get all mushy on me. Like most males, Diego was uncomfortablearound emotional females so I made an effort to butch up. Sorry.It s just& nobody else understands.I ve been working for this for so long. You sure as hell have.So what was different this time? You didn t feel nervous? Nervous was an understatement as anyone who s ever had a full-fledged panicattack can attest to, but I was willing to let it slide. No, I wasn t, I told my brother. Imet someone who helped me. What like a therapist? Not exactly& I hesitated.No one in my family would approve of what I haddone what I was in the process of doing, really, since I still had to see Jude again atleast twice more.But I wanted so badly to share my joy that I decided to take a chance. He s a vampire, I said and waited for a minute to let it sink in. A what? Diego s voice sounded as horrified as though I d told him I had found afriendly talking rattlesnake to help me pass the Bar. A vampire, I said, determined not to let his reaction throw me. His name is JudeJacobson.You d like him. I said this with a little less conviction.But then again, whocould help liking Jude? He was so kind and gentle and polite well, to me anyway.Even my brother, alpha wolf that he was, would like a vampire like Jude.39 Evangeline AndersonBut Diego was making sputtering sounds at the other end of the phone.At last Irealized he was so upset he could barely get the words out. Jude Jacobson? hemanaged to spit out at last. The Jude Jacobson? What do you mean, the Jude Jacobson? How many can there be? I demanded. Jude Jacobson who runs half the Tampa Bay area and has the other half in hispocket? Jude Jacobson even other vampires are afraid of because he s such a ruthlessbastard? That s crazy, I said dismissively, honking my horn at the guy in front of me whowas stopped at a green light fumbling with his cell phone. That must be someone else.My Jude isn t like that. Listen to you your Jude, Diego sneered. Well, he s not. I felt put on the defensive and wished I hadn t said anything at all. There must be two different vampire Judes because what you re describing isn tanything like him. Well, not when he s with me, anyway, I thought, remembering themenacing darkness I d seen peeking out from his polite outer façade when he d beenpissed off at Banner that first night. Trust me, there s only one of this guy.If there were two we d all be fucked. Mylittle brother took a deep breath that sounded like static on my end of the line. Bigguy six four or five? Blond hair, shoulders like a linebacker? Well& yes, I said slowly. But listen, Diego, he s a nice guy and he really helpedme out. What by helping you study? Showing you flashcards that kind of shit? Not exactly, I hedged. Then how? I didn t really want to say at this point but I knew Diego would never let it dropuntil I confessed. I-I drank some of his blood.It helped me concentrate kept me fromgetting all panicky and blowing the test.Okay? No not okay.Not okay at all.You actually drank his blood? The disgust in mylittle brother s voice was the same as if I d said I drank a bottle of the vampire s sweator some other, even more unmentionable substance. Not a lot of it, I protested, angry at having to defend myself. A little taste andlike I said, it helped me.I d do it again. Diego s response was immediate. Don t you dare! He s dangerous, Luz you needto stay away from him.Far away. How do you know so much about him, anyway? I snapped. My pack master, Julio Sanchez.He told us that this Jude Jacobson of yours gotangry at the pack master over in Clear Water.He wouldn t do business with Jacobsonor maybe he just looked at him wrong, I don t know.So So he doesn t get along with weres he s a vampire, what do you expect? 40 Deal with the Devil That wasn t what I was going to say. Diego s voice dropped. I was going to say,so they found the pack master the next night in the woods outside their huntinggrounds.He d been skinned alive and his hide was nailed to a tree. My God. I would have put a hand to my mouth but since I was still driving withone hand and holding my cell phone with the other, I didn t have one to spare. Did helive? I asked.A human wouldn t have survived such a horrible fate but shifters aretough. Yeah, he made it.But he might never be able to change again.He was skinnedwhile he was in his wolf form and the hide was nailed up with pure silver completelyruined. I was shocked at this last twist.Weres and vampires alike can be hurt andweakened by silver the purer the metal, the more lasting and painful the damage [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ]