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The next day, Diana took Katie to meet Pedro. She left the little girl outside with one of Alec’s men while she went to speak with him.
Alec hadn’t called her, so she could only assume that either Pedro was better or he wanted her to see for herself how impossible her idea was.
The little man had aged considerably, and he was still a little vacant. He puttered around the apartment cleaning what was already clean and straightening out things that did not need straightening. Diana had serious misgivings, but she couldn’t shake the idea that this was the right move. And when all was said and done, she was a creature of instinct.
“Pedro, I want you to know how sorry I am about your son,” she said finally.
He looked at her directly then. “I understand that it was you, not the vampire, t
