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trying not to let any of this faze me.
    “It’s been fifty years or more,” Ezra admitted. “But others have seen him, had run-in’s with him.
    When I was told of Peter’s troubles, they specifically mentioned Gunnar by name.”
    “So you knew exactly what you were getting into when we came here?” I narrowed my eyes at him, and
    his pursed his lips in response. “Then why are you so freaked out by this? If you knew that’s who were dealing
    with.”
    “I was hoping to avoid him entirely. I thought we could just find Peter and get out of here, before
    they even knew that we’d been here,” he sighed. “And that’s also why I think Peter’s on a suicide mission. He
    was with me the last time we encountered Gunnar. We’re just lucky that we didn’t see him in the woods. He’d
    know exactly who I was and what I was doing there, and we wouldn’t be on our way back to the hotel now.”
    I sank back in the seat and finally started to get a grasp on what had frazzled Ezra so much.
    There
    were there lycan back there, and if one of them had been Gunnar, it would’ve been
    impossible for us to get
    away. They outnumbered us, and I’m sure I would be useless in a fight. We had just very narrowly escaped
    death, which is saying something for us.
    “How do you kill a vampire?” I breathed.
    With my murder becoming increasingly imminent, I thought it would be good to know the
    method of
    my demise. Ezra had once mentioned that starvation lasting for months or years would lead to death, but that
    seemed like a very unlikely course of action in this scenario. I imagined something more instant, more violent,
    more bloody. Less than a month into immortality, and I was already facing death. That’s just my luck.
    “Head. Heart.” He shifted uneasily, but the car started to slow, meaning that his initial panic had
    started to ebb. “Our bones are nearly unbreakable, though, so it’s incredibly hard to damage either of them.
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    Another vampire could rather easily do it. We’re our only enemy in this world.”
    The imagery of my heart getting ripped out was enough to keep me silent for the rest of the car ride
    back to the hotel. When we parked, Ezra didn’t check behind him for lycan, but I did.
    Apparently his paranoia
    had transferred to me. The clerk behind the desk made googley eyes at me when we came in, but I barely even
    noticed. There were far more important things on my mind. Like how I planned on
    surviving this trip.

Chapter 6
    We made our circles wider and wider around the lycan territory, but after three days, we had no choice but
    starting moving in closer again. Besides that, all of the intel that Ezra had been getting suggested that Peter
    was imbedded in lycan land. It was all part of his suicide plan, I guess. Hang out around them long enough
    until they slaughtered him. The only problem was that we had now way knowing whether it happened yet or
    not.
    Since we had seen the lycan, Ezra had had been kind of hesitant about bringing me out with him. His
    whole plan for getting Peter rested on my ability to convince him, but that wasn’t fool proof either. Neither of
    us were exactly sure how he’d respond to me, since I had been the reason for his heartbreak and subsequent
    meltdown.
    Except… the last kiss we shared, the only time he had every truly kissed me, I felt something different. When he met me, he definitely hadn’t wanted me, but after I almost died and he took off,
    something changed in him. When he came back, he was different towards me, kinder, more
    understanding.
    Something in the way he had felt about me had shifted. Maybe it was because he felt guilty about hurting me,
    or maybe it was because he had learned what it was like to live without me. Or maybe
    something else entirely.
    Whatever the reason, Peter had actually started to let himself care about me.
    In the chaos of everything that was happening the last time I saw, his sudden appearance and the
    impending fight between