The Vampire King's Feeder
But someone blocks my progress toward them–toward my mother, who I desperately need to talk to about what I just did.
“What the hell is wrong with you?” Cole rasps, catching my arm and practically dragging me through a set of thick, velvet curtains covering one of the archways off the ballroom. A small sitting room expands around us, quiet and empty. He scans my face, his eyes narrowed. “Are you sick?”
“No.”
“You’re so–so pale.”
“I’m a vampire, Cole. We’re all pale.”
“No, you’ve never been this color,” he argues, reaching up to touch my face, but I swat him away.