Startled at first, she thought about waking Dan up, but he was deep in relaxation with his eyes closed and headphones in. And he looked so perfect when he relaxed that she really hated to ask him to get up. So, instead, she braved answering the door on her own, but not before grabbing a stake from Anna’s nightstand. If there was a crazy, deranged vampire in her hallway, she wasn’t about to let them kill her without even having the fighting chance to kill them herself. She didn’t have just herself to think of anymore; she had Dan to think of, too, now. Lexi figured that it was probably Rhonda on the other side of the door, though. It would be just her luck. Rhonda would be looking for a notebook or something belonging to Anna on Christmas Day just to try to rub something about Gabe into her face. When she opened the door, the person she found standing there instead shocked her. It was Gabe. His steel blue eyes looked different than they usually did. Something about them seemed colder, more distant than they normally were—which was saying a lot because he had seemed extremely cold lately.
