“Fine. We’ll… figure out who killed Arthur and pin Steven’s murder on them.”
“I won’t be much help. I can’t go back to work.”
“You need to. If you stay home, the hunger will get worse faster. You’ll have nothing to do but ruminate. You have to go back to work with me.”
“I’m too dangerous, Bloom.”
I scowled. “If you’re looking at it from that angle, I can keep an eye on you better from work, to make sure everyone around you is safe. And the werewolves will probably have people in the office, which makes it even safer.”
Harper let out a slow breath and looked back down at her food. “Fine. I’d like to know how much time I have left, though.”
“You can’t talk like that. We’re going to find a way out of this.”
“No one can un-turn a vampire.”
“But maybe there’s a way to control one. It’s not like our stories are always right. No one mentioned that I could end up soulmates with a werewolf. I’ll find a way to research it. Someone has to know something.”
“With what time? You committed to fixing the investment firm’s many problems with the law, remember? And you’re basically being hunted by a horny Alpha werewolf. It’s not like you could snoop without setting off alarms.”
She was right.
Shit.
“I’ll figure something out. Make a plan. Find a way.”
“Would your family know anything about turned vampires?”
“More than I do. I can ask them. Do you want me to?”
Harper nodded.
I opened my messages and, after a moment of debate as to how I should ask, went to my family’s group chat.
Time to come up with some bullshit.
Me
One of the humans at the gathering was asking me about turned vampires earlier and I didn’t know all the answers. How long does it take them to devolve, and how does it happen?
As expected, my overly-close family answered immediately.
Dad
They usually seem like normal vampires who require extra blood for three or four weeks after being turned, as long as they feed within a few hours of being changed. If they don’t, they spiral immediately.
Their descent to madness is subtle at first. They start zoning out and losing time, and their bloodlust slowly gets worse. They go from seeming normal to completely devolved in a matter of hours, which makes the process unpredictable
Mom
They’re the reason the humans fear us, honey
If a human ever asks for information about them again, report them to Neve and scare the living daylights out of them with gruesome stories
I bit my lip.
Me
Does anyone ever survive it and become a normal vampire?
