In that one sweet taste I knew better. He smiled up at me, and it was beatific, as if he saw something wondrous. There was a fake spiderweb against one wall big enough to hang someone from. One of the other men, who was small and dark, and looked like he'd spent a little too much time in rat form, said, Smells like jealousy to me.
Most true believers do, but that's not why I say it was them, or strangers, instead of the vampires I know best. It didn't really show in his voice, but he was as angry as I'd seen him. The last clear thought I had before panic set in was, I have to get up off the floor. It was a bad enough wound that I should have noticed it sooner.
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