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The narrative contrasts the security work protecting humans with lingering personal friction, as May feels drained by Chad’s parties and his restless, sometimes unsupportive behavior. Against the backdrop of Lucian’s Bloodline bringing stability to Chicago, May wrestles with burnout, intimacy tensions, and the desire for a calmer, more genuine home.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>CHOSEN BY THE VAMPIRE  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Bloodline Vampires  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>By L. J. Red  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Want FREE books?  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Discover Markus and Sadie’s story in Bewitched by the Vampire  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>JOIN MY NEWSLETTER NOW!  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>[www.ljred.com/newsletter](www.ljred.com/newsletter)  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Chapter 1  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>May stared at the “Elevator Broken” sign, her eyes grainy. Well, that was just great. She dragged herself over to the stairs and began to climb the five flights to Chad’s apartment. She had spent the entire night on her feet in the Sanctuary dealing with last-minute preparations for the envoy to the Conclave. The Sanctuary would still be a hive of activity even when half of the vampires and the vassals, the human staff that worked for them, had gone, but at least it would be a half-empty hive.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>So much had changed since Lucian, the leader of the Shadows, and his newly turned vampire soulmate Dana had rid the city of the vampire corruption at its heart, killing the Monster of Chicago, the serial killer who had haunted the city for so long. Now Lucian’s Bloodline, the Shadows, elite warriors of the vampire race, finally had a territory of their own, and they were here to stay.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Despite the shockwaves moving through Chicago, for May some things never seemed to change. At least she was working for the good guys now, vampires whose mission was to protect humans, not prey on them. Still, she always seemed to be the last one home, the first one back in the morning. Pulling longer and longer hours each night. She supposed it was a good thing that humans twice her age (and sometimes vampires four times that) sought her out for advice. She’d always had a calm head, always been the one to quietly put out fires, not run around screaming and fainting.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Still, she paused on the landing, catching her breath. Sometimes she’d like to have a moment to freak out or be overwhelmed. Let someone else take care of the next crisis, for a change. She’d always been so damn practical—what would it be like to fall apart?  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>May had always been interested in vampires, even as a teenager when she was more heavily into goth, dyed her hair black, and went around wearing an entire salon’s worth of eyeliner. Now that she was in her twenties and had toned down her love of everything black, she’d still jumped at the chance to work in the Sanctuary, traveling halfway across the country to apply for the position in Chicago. Being so close to real vampires sounded like a dream come true. She thought she’d get some unusual events management experience, and it’d be something cool to put  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>on her resume for her next ‘real job’. Instead, she’d been thrown headlong into the total overhaul of vampire society. New rules, hyper security and hundreds of vampires flocking to the city. Not exactly the quirky experience builder she’d imagined.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>Finally, she reached the fifth-floor landing and shoved the door open to the hallway, walking down past the familiar cracked tile and peeling paper to Chad’s door and sagging against it, letting her dark lined eyes fall shut.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>It wasn’t that she didn’t enjoy the work. She did—she’d always been good with people. At the animal shelter where she used to work, she’d quickly taken the reins of the office, though working for vampires wasn’t quite as rewarding as saving injured animals. Vampires were a lot less fluffy, for a start. Still, it was exciting work, always something new going on, but the last few weeks had been more than exciting, they’d been utterly exhausting. All she wanted to do was collapse into bed and sleep the day away.  \u003C/p>\u003Cp>She wished she owned the blackout curtains that the vampires used in the Sanctuary. Chad only had flimsy white ones. She’d told him she was happy to buy them herself, hell it wouldn’t be the first thing she’d bought for their apartment, but he’d complained about the ‘energy flow’ and‘ruining his Zen’ and she’d just given up. It wasn’t the first time she’d given in to one of his tirades. 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