Semua Bab So You Think Your Sister's a Vampire?: Bab 261 - Bab 270

“This is a clearing expedition,” Aaron said, “which means you open fire as soon as you engage. We’re not negotiating or taking prisoners. The fact that these bloodsuckers are here is enough to get rid of them.”Something about his tone, or maybe it was the use of the word “bloodsuckers,” got my dander up. I tried to keep my cool, but I shot a message to him and to Cadence. “What about the ones that were just turned?” I asked. Surely, they didn’t think it was fair to take out people who were innocent campers just a day or so ago and either happened upon this camping site, not knowing what they were getting into or were attacked by the Vampires as they claimed this place for their own. For all we knew, Southwest Moe himself was down there somewhere sitting among the undead, not even realizing what he was.Cadence’s voice was slightly sympathetic when she responded, but I knew she

Rather than jumping out of the tree in one leap like Elliott had, I took my time and chose my footing carefully. I’m sure I was moving faster than most humans were capable of, but relative to the rest of my team, I was slow and cautious. Getting down is almost always harder than getting up when it comes to climbing, but I knew if I hurried, I’d end up falling, and I wasn’t ready to test out how badly I could hurt myself.I was about halfway down before I lost my balance the first time and had to grab at a branch that wasn’t quite as strong as I’d hoped. I recovered, but the branch broke free, and then I found myself falling through the air. My hands shot out, and I reached for another limb. This one was strong enough to hold me, and by the time I steadied myself, I realized I was only about ten feet off the ground. “You can do this,” I whispered, and then, looking for a clear path between the remaining rows of branches, I jumped.

A smile flickered across Mina’s face as she considered my question. A glimpse at her teeth had me running my tongue across mine. Neither of us had fangs just now. “Heavens, no.” Mina shattered my hopes of finding someone with similar problems, but whatever it was I could do for her daughter, I would still do it. She continued, and I hung on every word. “That was a long time ago. She’s long past, that one. Beautiful girl, though.”My confusion grew with her explanation. “You knew someone who was half Vampire, half Hunter?” What really caught my attention was the fact that this person had died. What had killed her? I leaned forward toward Mina, and she shifted her weight, too, which had me leaning back. I wasn’t afraid of her. I knew she wouldn’t hurt me even if she could. This wasn’t a trap—she legitimately wanted me to help her daughter. When she nodded in response to my last question, I asked, “Whe

Aurora drove us back to campus. I didn’t know when she’d gotten the keys from Elliott, and I didn’t care. Bonnie quivered in my arms the entire time it took to get back, and I tried not to cry right along with her. No one said a word aloud, and I didn’t see the telltale flicker of eye movements that would’ve let me know that the other women in the SUV were talking on their IACs either, though I suppose it was possible. We were all trying to sort out what had just happened. I knew none of them had been affected as profoundly as I had been, but I had a feeling nothing like this had ever happened before.I had a Vampire child in my arms, and at the moment, she was the only person in the world I cared about. I didn’t have any idea what I was going to do with her, though. It wasn’t as if I could just take her back to Cadence’s apartment with me. At sixteen, I hadn’t even considered being a mother. And she wasn’t exactly a

“Where does—” Cadence started to ask about where the blood Bonnie had just drank from a pouch came from, but Faye interrupted her.“Donations,” she explained. “We encourage the humans who work at headquarters to donate. We also purchase blood that is about to go bad from blood banks.”“Fascinating,” Cadence mumbled as Bonnie handed me her empty container and went back to the toys. I saw a trash can and crossed the room to toss it in. “So what happens now?” I asked, glad to see Bonnie playing. She seemed like a carefree child again, at least for a few minutes, but the chill of watching her mother die was still in the forefront of my mind.“We will keep her in here for as long as she wants to play, and then, when she gets tired, we’ll take her to a room. In the morning, we’ll look at a permanent arrangement for her. As you know, we have Compliants that we work with on a regular bas