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seemed content to remain mute as he finished toweling me off. There was a curious sense of surrealism as he lifted one of my feet to gently dry off my toes. Here was this complete stranger, drying off my little piggies so I wouldn’t slip and fall and break my neck. Not that it would have killed me anymore…
I cleared my throat again, pulling my foot from his grasp, a little unnerved by the innocent touch. “Will anything like that happen to me again?” I asked , with not a small amount of trepidation. If that was going to be a regular occurrence , I might as well go find a stake and be done with it.
“Like I said, the worst of it is over. You’ll have an adjustment period while you get used to your new abilities. Your senses might go a little haywire from time to time , but nothing like what you went through tonight, I promise . ”
That was comforting. I wasn’t sure I had the strength to go through something like that again . I didn’t know how I would have survived without Bishop to bring me through it. Did all vampires experience such a thing? The way he’d known exactly how to care for me seemed to indicate they did.
“So , what happens now?” I asked, wringing my shirt out into the sink.
“ Y ou find your Sponsor, and g et me your license and registration . T hen you and your S ire can feast on your friend all you want, as long as you clean up your own mess from now on.” He gave a half shrug, tossing the towel carelessly aside and leaning against the counter.
Ugh, there he went about the license and registration bit again. And what was that about my S ire? I was about as well read on vampires as the next girl, maybe moreso. I knew he meant the vampire that turned me into one, but I really had no idea who he was talking about. “I told you, I don’t know who did this to me.”
“He hasn’t tried to contact you at all since we talked last night?”
“No, not a word. Honestly, you’re the only one who keeps popping up in my life. Well, besides the police.”
“It doesn’t make sense.” Bishop paced the length of the narrow bathroom. “Why wouldn’t he show himself? You could have ended up feral if I hadn’t happened to be here , or dead if you hadn’t fed before sundown. Why go through all the trouble to turn you if he’s willing to let you die?”
The news that I might have died if I hadn’t tasted Bridget’s blood eased some of the guilt, but I wish someone had told me that beforehand. “Maybe he would have shown up if you weren’t here?”
“That’s possible, he probably wou ldn’t have come if he knew t he Order was involved,” he allowed.
“Why not?”
“Because he obviously has something to hide. I’m guessing he didn’t have the proper license for turning you or he wouldn’t have run off like that. Letting you go to the morgue without intervening was a pretty serious infraction. He’s either stupid and careless, or considers himself above the law. The Order takes that sort of thing pretty seriously.”
I felt like I was only grasping half of the conversation. “What is this Order you keep mentioning?”
“The Order of Jacari. We uphold the laws, not that there are many between vampires. Our greatest duty is to ma sk our existence from the world and punish those that threaten to expose us.”
So he was a cop of sorts… I guess my instincts hadn’t been that far off, only it all was sounding more dangerous by the moment. “By punish you mean…”
“Exterminate.”
I swallowed past the uncomfortable lump that rose in my throat. “So ah, what happens now?” I repeated, starting to grasp why the paperwork was so important to him. Paperwork I didn’t have.
“Look , I’m sorry, but I’m going to have to take you into custody until we can straighten this out.” He didn’t sound happy about it, but it was nothing compared to the anxiety that twisted my stomach into
I cleared my throat again, pulling my foot from his grasp, a little unnerved by the innocent touch. “Will anything like that happen to me again?” I asked , with not a small amount of trepidation. If that was going to be a regular occurrence , I might as well go find a stake and be done with it.
“Like I said, the worst of it is over. You’ll have an adjustment period while you get used to your new abilities. Your senses might go a little haywire from time to time , but nothing like what you went through tonight, I promise . ”
That was comforting. I wasn’t sure I had the strength to go through something like that again . I didn’t know how I would have survived without Bishop to bring me through it. Did all vampires experience such a thing? The way he’d known exactly how to care for me seemed to indicate they did.
“So , what happens now?” I asked, wringing my shirt out into the sink.
“ Y ou find your Sponsor, and g et me your license and registration . T hen you and your S ire can feast on your friend all you want, as long as you clean up your own mess from now on.” He gave a half shrug, tossing the towel carelessly aside and leaning against the counter.
Ugh, there he went about the license and registration bit again. And what was that about my S ire? I was about as well read on vampires as the next girl, maybe moreso. I knew he meant the vampire that turned me into one, but I really had no idea who he was talking about. “I told you, I don’t know who did this to me.”
“He hasn’t tried to contact you at all since we talked last night?”
“No, not a word. Honestly, you’re the only one who keeps popping up in my life. Well, besides the police.”
“It doesn’t make sense.” Bishop paced the length of the narrow bathroom. “Why wouldn’t he show himself? You could have ended up feral if I hadn’t happened to be here , or dead if you hadn’t fed before sundown. Why go through all the trouble to turn you if he’s willing to let you die?”
The news that I might have died if I hadn’t tasted Bridget’s blood eased some of the guilt, but I wish someone had told me that beforehand. “Maybe he would have shown up if you weren’t here?”
“That’s possible, he probably wou ldn’t have come if he knew t he Order was involved,” he allowed.
“Why not?”
“Because he obviously has something to hide. I’m guessing he didn’t have the proper license for turning you or he wouldn’t have run off like that. Letting you go to the morgue without intervening was a pretty serious infraction. He’s either stupid and careless, or considers himself above the law. The Order takes that sort of thing pretty seriously.”
I felt like I was only grasping half of the conversation. “What is this Order you keep mentioning?”
“The Order of Jacari. We uphold the laws, not that there are many between vampires. Our greatest duty is to ma sk our existence from the world and punish those that threaten to expose us.”
So he was a cop of sorts… I guess my instincts hadn’t been that far off, only it all was sounding more dangerous by the moment. “By punish you mean…”
“Exterminate.”
I swallowed past the uncomfortable lump that rose in my throat. “So ah, what happens now?” I repeated, starting to grasp why the paperwork was so important to him. Paperwork I didn’t have.
“Look , I’m sorry, but I’m going to have to take you into custody until we can straighten this out.” He didn’t sound happy about it, but it was nothing compared to the anxiety that twisted my stomach into
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