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He is home by six o’clock and in a flash of optimism, puts out a bottle of red wine and two glasses. He walks around the downstairs rooms, looking at them with a stranger’s eye. He plumps up the cushions on the sofa. By seven o’clock he is showered and wearing well cut black jeans and a pale blue shirt.

By seven fifteen, when Caro is quarter of an hour late, he feels a fool for believing that a beautiful blonde he has met at a New Year’s Eve fancy dress party could ever be interested in him. He starts to open the wine and nearly drops the bottle when the doorbell rings.
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White light, white pain.

Nothing else.

Then voices at the edges.

“This one’s a priority…”
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Nervous was hardly the term to describe what the short, fairly nondescript being disguised as a minor cherubim felt. Rampaging terror would be a much more accurate word. Thrusting his chubby hands deep into the pockets of his brightly coloured tracksuit, he sauntered in a painfully casual manner to the green neon-lit doorway of the bar. Sneaking a quick peek through the swinging saloon-style door, he saw a roomful of archangels and seraphims drinking Pimms and Martinis from sugar-frosted cocktail glasses.
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The two young Japanese women couldn’t read the waiver and didn’t care. “…and hereby acknowledge and fully understand that by permitting the vampire to feed on me, I will be engaging in an activity that may result in serious injury, permanent disability or death…” The tourists barely spoke English, and that was what Dennis wanted: this night he would face no monotonous questions. A month of interrogations by other donors had left him sick of talking.
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They always told me I shouldn’t go to the university.

It’s too much trouble, they’d all say. Too much work for such a measly reward. They all said there wasn’t any difference between someone who goes to the university and someone who doesn’t.
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