Megan’s reminder of the true matter at hand snapped everyone back into focusing on her dilemma.  She was right. Whatever petty issues we had about who was with whom, who rejected whom, and who lied to whom could wait.  We needed to come up with a game plan to capture at least three advanced zombies, possibly more.We decided to send the vampires out in search of the zombies while Max and I stay in the cellar with Megan.  One of the advantages of working with vampires that Max openly appreciated was the fact that they were able to smell a zombie from a good distance away and were skilled into taking them down and destroying them. There were only a few cases where zombies got the upper hand and that was when the zombie was of a specific strain; which the ones inour area weren’t.We left the education of the different breeds or strains of zombies for a later date and urged them out of the cellar.  We’d been a large number of p

When it was time to go to bed, it was my intention to send Peter to his room, but when he asked for a little time to talk about things, I couldn’t refuse him.  It was better to address what happened right away instead of letting things fester.Once inside my room, he didn’t embrace me, as I’d expected.  Instead, he paced the room while he put his thoughts in order.  My room was large enough to have a sitting area in it, so I headed for the fainting sofa and left the club chair for him.  When he finally sat down in it, I could see that he was ready to talk.“I should have gotten your permission before giving you that antidote,” he began.“As if I’d say ‘no’,” I said lazily.  “Who willingly becomes a walking corpse?”“They eventually become reanimated to the point of being, what I’d consider, another altered person,” he said softly. “But,

A man slighter in height and build than Max stood nervously behind him while he waited for our borderline intimate scene to end.  When he was sure I was okay, Max set me free and put his finger to his lips.  He stepped aside for Eddie to see into the room and pointed to the zombie man I’d just conquered as he lay in a heap on the floor and then pulled me out of the room and closed the door behind us.We stood at the base of the stairs while Eddie scoped out the rest of the downstairs.  I heard a loud thud, but breathed easy when Eddie came around the corner dragging a female zombie.  Max opened the door to my office and they unceremoniously shoved her into the room and closed the door.I wasn’t sure how I felt about them piling zombies up in my office, but I knew better than to complain.We inched our way upstairs, stopping every so often to listen and also to wait and see if the floorboard creaking beneath our weight raised any t

Once we were certain that she had all she needed for her lab, Peter and I left her alone to concentrate on the task at hand. She hoped to have an antidote for the powder within the day, but couldn’t guarantee it.  She repeatedly lamented over not knowing what kind of magic was being used by the zombie maker.  Apparently, different magic used different energy. I had so much to learn and absorb…. and believe.Peter suggested we get out of the house for a while. He felt that the change in scenery would do me some good. At his suggestion of a picnic by a nearby lake, I eagerly gathered things together to make it happen.  Within an hour we were spreading out a blanket on the banks of a beautiful, peaceful lake.I lay back and reveled in the sun’s heat as it caressed my face. “How did you know about this place?  I’ve been here much longer and had no idea.”“I found it yesterday while searching

I grew weary of the rambling voices and began to allow my body to float away as a means of escape from them. I was reveling in the sensation of floating in air when I felt someone yank me back to reality.  My arms and legs were free from their bindings and the circulation was being roughly rubbed back into them.“Vickie, can you hear me?” managed to reach my mind. I recognized the male voice, but just couldn’t place it. “Vickie, answer me. Wake up, sweetheart. Can you hear me?  Wake up?”   Who was that man speaking? I knew that I knew him, but I just couldn’t think his name. It was so frustrating to not be able to put a name to thevoice, but I just couldn’t.“She’s not responding!”“She’s badly dehydrated.  Here, try to get this past her lips. It should help.”I smiled with satisfaction when I was able to put Megan’s name to the second voic