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“How are you doing?”
I set the cloth down and turn around to face him. “I’m alive. Well, sort of, I guess, right?”
He offers me a thoughtful look. “You’re as alive as the rest of us.”
I nod. “Everything is heightened. I… I canhearthe electricity racing through the wires into the lightbulbs in here.”
Gabriel smiles. “You’ll adjust to that, and once you do, you’ll be able to focus on what you want and ignore the things you don’t.”
My brows lift. “How?”
“Staying fed helps,” he offers. “Besides that, it’s just something you’ll get better at with time. In fact, you’ll likely come to enjoy the heightened senses.”
A spark of excitement flares in my chest, making my breasts tingle, and my eyes widen. I was not expectingthatresponse.
He runs his hand up and down my back soothingly. “Do you regret it?” he asks in a low voice.
His question makes me pause. It’s not one I’m sure I can answer after being a vampire for approximately ten seconds, but there’s a sliver of hope in my chest, a bit of pleasant warmth that tells me I’ve made the right decision.
“No,” I finally say, “I don’t regret it.”
Gabriel’s heart beats a little faster andholy shit, I can hear his heartbeat. He chuckles softly. “Pretty cool, isn’t it?”
“Yeah, actually,” I admit, frowning a little when my tongue inadvertently grazes one of my fangs. “Why won’t they go away?”
Gabriel slides his finger under my chin, tipping my head back slightly. “Open.” I follow his direction, and he peers into my mouth before letting me go. “You’re probably still hungry,” he finally says.
I wrinkle my nose. “I don’t want more blood.”
He chuckles. “You may not want to drink it, but it’s what your body craves and needs to survive now.”
Exhaling a sigh, I mumble, “Can I have some people food?”
“You can have whatever you wish, Calla,” he tells me, resting his hand against the small of my back and guiding me out of the bathroom.
We walk into the common area, and I slide into one of the chairs at the dining table, drumming my fingers against the wood top. “Where’s the girl?” I ask no one in particular.
Lex takes the chair across from me and says, “Gabriel healed her all up and glamoured her to forget tonight. She’s currently asleep back in her suite and will wake tomorrow believing that she had a little too much to drink tonight and that’s it.”
Ah, glamour. Something else I’m going to have to figure out. Nope. Can’t think about that right now. One thing at a time. I survived the transition and didn’t kill my first feed—maybe I should be celebrating right now.
I lean back in my chair, glancing over to the couch where Kade and Atlas are sitting, watching me. “I can hear, like, everything.”
“We’re surrounded by people,” Kade says. “Once we’re home, it won’t be this overwhelming.”
I press my lips together, nodding. Thank god, because this noise is irritating as hell. Something tells me I could tune into individual conversations if I focused, but right now, it’s a bunch of muffled noises, as if I’m stuck in the middle of a crowd.
“Do you have any questions?” Atlas says, resting his arm along the back of the couch.
“Can we order room service?”
Kade laughs deeply. “You mean—”
“Food,” I cut him off. “Preferably something with grease. Fries, onion rings, mozzarella sticks.”
“I could fuck with some onion rings,” Lex says, getting up and walking toward the bedroom. “I’ll call down to the kitchen.”
“Get me a burger,” Kade hollers to him.
