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down a bit?” she asked. “The way you’re driving round these winding roads is making me feel sick again and I don’t want to mess up this nice car of yours,” she told him.
    “ Yes okay I can slow down a bit, I think we should be safe for a while,” Zach said.
    “ So, just who or what the hell are you and what is going on?” she said quietly. Zach turned his head and looked at Alexina, the look just about curled her toes.
    Once again she berated herself – for God’s sake woman, you are not a teenager and you don’t even know this guy. But jeez his eyes were the most amazing steel grey she had ever seen. They were completely out of this world – at this she realised his mouth was moving and she tried to tune back in.
    “Well Alexina, my name is Zachariah but everyone calls me Zach. I know you go by Alex but your full name is so much nicer, so Alexina is what I will call you. What I am is a Vampire,” he told her waiting on her reaction.
    Her mind reeled, no, this can’t be true, well she knew they were out there, everyone did, but they kept very off the radar, so to speak, and as far as she knew there were very few in the UK and fewer still in Scotland.
    “Well I wasn’t expecting that answer,” she whispered. “Are you going to hurt me?” she asked him, with visions of the old Dracula movies coming to mind.
    “ No Alexina, I am not going to hurt you. I am here to help you, keep you safe,” Zach replied in a soft tone.
    Alex was finding it difficult to form words.
    Finally she spoke. “From what though?” She noticed that she had said ‘what’ rather than who and this surprised her. She took a deep breath and continued “I have no idea what’s happening.”
    Zach was glancing between her and the road ahead – once more she saw his lips moving. “Okay, I will give you the information I have to hand. I work for the Supernaturals Council and my job is usually to round up what we call Supers – that’s a collective term used to cover anything Supernatural from a Vampire to Witches, who have gone off the reservation so to speak.”
    "What? Shit, I've heard of that Council thingy – there was something on TV about it ages ago but I thought it was all baloney! I mean Vampires, Witches – that's stuff out of books and films! I never really thought I would come across one of them." Alex's mind was whirling around and she was more than a little astonished. She was sitting in a car with a freaking Vampire!
    “ It's all real Alexina, very real. If it weren’t for the Council there would be a hell of a lot of humans being killed or used for other means, none of which would be pleasant. It’s our job to hunt those who do wrong down, after all, the human world doesn’t have anything even close to being strong enough to deal with them.” Zach gave her a smile and turned his attention back to the dark road ahead.
    At this Alex realised that he was talking with a slight American accent. “You’re not from around here, are you?” she said ruefully.
    “No I’m not, I’m stationed out of our headquarters in the US,” he answered.
    She looked taken aback and responded with an incredulous tone, “The US, you mean the USA, as in America? That’s pretty far for you to come, isn’t it?”
    She waited on him talking again, just to hear his voice. She really liked his voice.
    Zach answered her question. “Yup, as in America. I travel wherever I am needed and right now I am needed to keep you safe. From what, we are not sure, but we know that you are in extreme danger and I am the one that is going to keep you from harm.”
    She tried to take this in, was she dreaming? She wasn’t sure but she was a practical person and she decided to at least hear him out. After all, what happened in the woods was real, scary, but real.
    “ So just where are we going? You do realise that my car is back in that car park? I will need it for work tomorrow.” Her voice was getting stronger and her tone was one of