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  or stance. he was so very
  average-looking, nothing remarkable about his face or body at all. just
  the white skin, the circled eyes i'd growo. he ale
  blue, lo and faded blue jeans.
  ”i suppose y to tell me that your boyfriend will avenge you?”
  he asked, hopefully it seemed to me.
  ”no, i don't think so. at least, i asked him not to.”
  ”and ly to that?”
  ”i don't know.” it was strao verse with this genteel
  hunter. ”i left him a letter.”
  ”how romantic, a last letter. and do you think he will honor it?” his
  voice was just a little harder now, a hint of sarcasm marring his polite
  tone.
  ”i hope so.”
  ”hmmm. well, our hopes differ thehis was all just a little
  too easy, too quick. to be quite ho, i'm disappoied a
  much greater ge. and, after all, i ole luck.”
  i waited in silence.
  ”when victoria 't get to your father, i had her find out more about
  you. there was no sense in runnihe pla g you down
  when i fortably wait for you in a play g. so,
  after i talked to victoria, i dee to phoenix to pay your
  mother a visit. i'd heard you say y home. at first, i never
  dreamed you meant it. but then i wondered. humans be very
  predictable; they like to be somewhere familiar, somewhere safe. and
  wouldn't it be the perfect ploy, to go to the last place you should be
  when y — the place that you said you'd be.
  ”but of course i wasn't sure, it was just a hunch. i usually get a
  feeling about the prey that i'm hunting, a sixth sense, if you will. i
  listee when i got to your mother's house, but of course
  i 't be sure where you'd . it was very useful to have
  your you could have been in antarctica for all i knew, and
  the game wouldn't work unless you were close by.
  ”then yot oo phoenix. vi
  them for me, naturally; ihis many players, i 't be
  w alone. aold me what i'd hoped, that you were here
  after all. i ared; i'd already been thr home
  movies. a ly a matter of the bluff.
  ”very easy, you kno to my standards. so, you see, i'm
  hoping y about your boyfriend. edward, isn't it?”
  i didn't ahe bravad off. i se he was ing
  to the end of his gloat. it was for me anyway. there was no
  glory iing me, a weak human.
  ”would you mind, very much, if i left a little letter of my own for your
  edward?”
  he took a step bad touched a palm-sized digital video camera
  balanced carefully on top of the stereo. a small red light i
  it was already rued it a few times, widehe frame. i
  stared at him in horror.
  ”i'm sorry, but i just don't think he'll be able to resist hunting me
  after he watches this. and i wouldn't want him to miss anything. it was
  all for him, of course. you're simply a human, who unfortunately was in
  the wrohe wrong time, and indisputably running with the
  wrong ight add.”
  he stepped toward me, smiling. ”befin…”
  i felt a ausea i of my stomach as he spoke. this was
  something i had not anticipated.
  ”i would just like to rub it in, just a little bit. the ahere
  all along, and i was so afraid edward would see that and ruin my fun. it
  happened once, oh, ages ago. the one and only time my prey escaped me.
  ”you see, the vampire idly fond of this little victim made
  the choice that your edeak to make. when the old one knew i
  was after his little frieole her from the asylum where he worked
  — i never will uhe obsession some vampires seem to form with
  you humans — and as soon as he freed her he made her safe. she didn't
  eveice the pain, poor little creature. she'd been stu
  that black hole of a cell f. a hundred years earlier and she
  would have beehe