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“How are you laughing?! Everyone invited to my wedding is either dead or a vampire!”

“I don’t know!” I kept laughing. “At least the blood didn’t stain your lingerie.”

She looked down at the splattering of blood on the tops of her breasts that matched her red lingerie.

“You’re acting hysterical, Zoey.”

I kept laughing.

She slapped me hard across the face.

And that snapped me out of it. My laughter quickly morphed into sobs as I pulled out Bennett’s keys.

“I’m sorry,” Emma said. “I was just trying to help.”

There was no helping. I pictured Otto being attacked by all those vampires. And Bennett fighting with Elias. My boyfriends were completely outnumbered.

My hands were shaking so badly that I dropped the keys.

“Oh fuck,” Emma said.

“It’s fine, I’ve got this,” I said through my tears. I grabbed the keys off the ground.

“I’m not talking about the keys!” Emma pointed back toward Main Street.

Where Kebe was running toward us.

Chapter 29

Saturday

Zoey

Damn it!I shoved a key into the lock, but it wasn’t the right one. Which key was for the front doors of the bank?! Why did all my boyfriends have so many freaking keys on their keychains?

“Zoey!” Emma said. “Hurry!”

“I’m trying!” The next key didn’t work either. I turned to see Kebe only a few shops down from the bank.

“Let me try,” Emma said. She grabbed the keys from me and shoved one in.

“I just tried that one!”

“How was I supposed to know that?!” She pushed another key into the lock and the key finally turned.

“Hey!” Kebe shouted from only one shop down. “Wait up!”

Not a chance in hell, Satan. I pulled open the door.

Emma and I both ran inside. “Shit, the keys.” Emma pointed to them still dangling from the other side of the glass door.

But I was more focused on Kebe who was almost at the bank steps. There was no time to get the keys and lock the door. “It’s fine.” I grabbed Emma’s arm and pulled her toward the vaults. The vaults were more secure anyway. “If Kebe wants to come in badly enoughshe could just smash the glass. She doesn’t know the code for the vault. We’ll be safe in there.”

We rounded the counter and ran to the second vault. I typed in the code and the vault door hissed open.

“Would you two please wait up!” Kebe yelled as she ran into the bank.

Ah!I pulled with all my might on the huge metal door. Emma and I ran inside the vault just as Kebe got behind the counter.