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  1. Public Bookmark 80

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    June 29th. Jonathan Harker returns to his room and throws himself on his knees. Then, with nothing else to lose, he returns to the library and throws himself on his knees before the Count.

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    Dracula’s icy fingers stroke lazily up and down Jonathan’s face, as if he were a lapdog rather than a man. ‘So be it,’ Jonathan thinks. ‘Better a live dog than a dead man. If only I can reach home. If only I can reach Mina.’

    Dracula’s roving fingers draw him out of his own thoughts. He lets his sharp-nailed fingertips drum absently on Jonathan’s cheek.

    “You wish to serve me, you say.” His words have the frame of a question, but not the tone of one. Jonathan nods his assent anyways.

    “And you would do what for me?”

    Jonathan swallows, having the sense that his next words will be his closing statement before judgment is rendered.

    “W,whatever you ask,” he says. ‘God forgive me,’ he thinks.

    The smile returns to Dracula’s face.

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    04 Jan 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 93

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    One by one, his carefully cultivated legacy comes crumbling down. First one stock investment. Then another. This liquid asset. That property. This business relationship. That share. One after another, the threads of the count's plush modern life are pulled apart like a knit sweater, someone intent on leaving him bare and helpless.

    But who is throwing stones so foolishly at a predator's den?

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    02 Jan 2025

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    The Count comes to Jonathan in the night.

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    31 Dec 2024

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    "At the foot of my bed I beheld the Count, and behind him arrayed were the three Weird Sisters; all of them staring, with cruel, fond smiles on their beautiful faces as they watched me. “When will we welcome him?” the fair one asked. No longer did she look on me with hunger; now her face reflected an eager anticipation.

    “Soon,” the Count said. “Can you not see how he weakens? In but a few more days he shall be ours.” He looked on me with such a strange expression; had I seen it on a woman, I might have called it desire."

     

    No longer having need of his services as a solicitor, Count Dracula decides Jonathan might serve him in other ways.

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    31 Dec 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 25

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    What Spock wants, what he needs, may be just a conversation away.

    He's just not sure if he's brave enough.

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    03 Oct 2024