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Kris
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The vampire will know her end, he thought as he paced the jungle floor.
… VR is no place for his mate, his alpha snarled.
… Not without me.
Kris inhaled deeply as if he could scent where Renee was, only to pull in the dank musk of the Hollowing Shift swirling around within the remainder of the oasis he’d replenished himself from.
It smelled like the promise of a lonely death.
With no direction in reach, Kris erred on the side of caution. The Hallowing Shift could end its trespasser in nothing but a whip of wind and a spray of sand.
Just the thought of it begged him to reconsider the blind crossing.
Never seeing Renee’s face again bled into the back of his mind as he allowed the whispers from her outing take over instead.
At least there he could pretend
