How had she not seen this coming? Poor Jack. To lose his first life’s family, at this age? The gal of these hunters, to murder innocent humans for t...e sake of their vengeance. It was unheard of. For all the flaws of hunters, for all their murderous intents and all-consuming obsessions, they did not kill innocent humans. To kill a vampire’s previous family, to either draw a vampire out, or to inflict pain upon him, was absurd.It would not have been hard for the hunters to learn of Jack’s first. So I guess, I should go now."What? Don't say that. But... Can't you just... Stay?? "But.. You didn't even have your dinner. Aren't you hungry?" Don't worry about me. I'll grab a bite on my way back. And it's not that late either."If it's not that late than why you're so eager to go... But... What am I thinking? Am I expecting something? Do I really want something... to happen? What am I thinking? "Clare, I've write my phone number on this note here. If you need me, just call me anytime. Okay.. Too many of them have got their farms mortgaged for more than they're really worth. No way for them to even keep up with the mortgage payments. I hear there are places down South where you can go and buy irrigation pipe for what the scrap cost would normally be. How have you been? Looks like you've taken off too much weight." The no job diet. A lot of women would pay good money to learn my secret. I'm sorry for what happened. It got to where I'd let it get past the point where I could still. Just talking. This was... hewas running out of pills..." She stood there like a statue. "And then hewas... talking to other people. The ones selling it to him. Oh, God..."She started sobbing, trying to hold herself together. Why hadn't shefigured it out sooner? Why had she been so stupid as to believe thatJessica had forgiven her?Richard, too, was having his own revelations. Before that moment, asubstantial part of him had thought of himself as a teenage lord ofrevenge and slayer of monsters, a.