Semua Bab So You Think Your Sister's a Vampire?: Bab 291 - Bab 300

Boots in the hallway had my two sentinels readying their guns again. “It’s just me!” Cadence shouted, looking at them like they were a bit too jumpy. I couldn’t blame them, though. Especially Dax. This was his first day, after all, and it had been the craziest one on record.Cadence took in the scene, and now that my eyes were open, I traced the room with her. Jamie had made a lot of progress on Tara’s wound, but he was fading fast. Faye appeared to be a corpse.Even with all of the work Jamie had done, Tara still looked bad. Cadence asked, “How is she alive?”“I have no idea,” Jamie said, his voice so quiet it was hard to hear him. “I honestly don’t think she will be much longer if we don’t do something really quick.”I hoped he had an idea what “something” might be. Tara didn’t deserve to die like this. She was so excited, so full of life. It just wasn’

Dax sounded a bit uncomfortable, like he wasn’t sure what to make of Brandon when he asked, “Who is that guy?”For some reason, it was hard for me to answer that question, and it didn’t just have to do with the fact that Brandon and I still hadn’t talked about what had happened the night before. Dax and I had been through a traumatic experience together, and while nothing remotely romantic had happened, I felt like I’d been lying to him by not telling him I was taken. But the simple answer was the only one I had to offer at the moment, so I said, “He’s, uh, my boyfriend.”“Oh.” I wasn’t sure if he was disappointed or just surprised. He didn’t say anything else, and I continued to wait on the bar to reach the one-hundred-percent mark, but it was taking forever.Eventually, when it got to about eighty-five, a message popped up. “Alarm check complete. Error detected.”&

Dax and I made our way back to the playroom, but on our way, I decided I should check in with Aaron and make sure he knew what was going on down there. I meant to reach out to him through his IAC, but that’s not what happened. Perhaps it was because I had recently spent so much time walking around inside of Vampires’ heads, but when I reached out to Aaron, it was with my own mind, not my IAC, and I didn’t realize it until he answered me.“Aaron—you see him, don’t you?” I asked, and then realized my IAC hadn’t connected to his yet. I was shocked when I heard his voice in my mind.“I do.”I sort of jerked back a little bit, and Dax put a hand on me to steady me, but he didn’t ask what was going on. I was glad, too, because I couldn’t have explained it. Rather than going the IAC route, I finished, “He’s not going to try to hurt you guys. He’s just scared.

My sister pulled herself up on unsteady feet and crossed to where the newbie was standing, putting a hand on Dax’s arm. “Dax, you have had one heck of a first day. I promise you, most days here are nothing like this.”“Yeah, well, I’m not sure I wanna stick around to find out.” He shook his head and pulled away from her, dropping his eyes to the ground as he muttered, “Crazy kid Vampires ripping people’s throats out, people talking to each other through their eyes, doctors who fall asleep on the job, weird winking guys who appear and drug people while they’re passed out. I’m not really sure this is all for me.” He met her gaze again with that last sentence, and I felt like I might lose yet another person I cared about.My sister seemed to think his outburst was slightly humorous, though, as she stifled a laugh. “Well, when you put it like that…. Look, I think the excitement is done for now.

The apartment was dead silent when I walked inside. I didn’t know if my sister was there or not, but I decided to be extra quiet as I went about taking a shower and shoving a bite of food in my mouth. It had taken me a long time to get all of the blood out of my hair, and I thought we should invent some sort of blood removing shampoo for nights like this. Most of the time, it was ash I was struggling with. None of it was ever easy to remove, but I would’ve rather been scrubbing Vampire residue than Faye and Tara’s life fluid out of my hair.It was less than an hour later when I reentered the office building, two cups of coffee in my hands. I immediately stopped by Christian’s office and saw the lights were off, and he was gone. I hoped that meant he was in the operating room, but I wasn’t shocked when I walked in, and he wasn’t there either. Dax was pacing, and Jamie had moved again. I thought he had to be close to waking up but imagined th