CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
"YOU HAVE TWO OPTIONS: I turn you or I kill you." Lin held the young man face down on the ground as he struggled, her hands tight on his arms, her knee in his back, her wiry muscles taut beneath her pale skin. He was built like a warrior, she'd give him that. But I'm uncanny.
He'd gotten her to the city, fighting her in bits and pieces the whole way, even after she broke his finger to show her resolve. Though he'd been more taciturn since she'd broken her own finger to demonstrate her healing powers when he'd tried to crash the car. But in the city, among people, a recalcitrant human was a liability, no matter how well-formed he was.
Lin's nose twitched as she sniffed the air. The graveyard reeked of the living and the dead, but underneath it all there was a tendril o
