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She clutched the door handle hard, ready to flee. Her muscles tensed, ready to respond to her command.
“Miss, you want a lift, or not?” His sharp tone cut through her irrational thoughts.
Tamaska forced herself to gain control, to grab on to reality. The new reality.
Not everyone was going to be non-human.
She glanced down at her scratched hands.
Where did she want to go? She was here, in a damn taxi, and… She needed to solve this problem. There was only one place she knew she might be able to find answers. She lifted her gaze and looked back at the driver.
“To the Blood Moon Nightclub.” The words came from her mouth, firm and cold.
Impulsive? Perhaps. But impulse didn’t mean she was wrong.
After all, where the hell else could she search for answers?
She’d tried all other avenues.
“Where?” He said this like he must have misheard.
“Blue Moon Nightclub.”
The taxi driver’s eyes widened, and she met his stare coldly. He nodded, then drove off.
Tamaska exhaled slowly and steadily. Her heartbeat settled to a regular rhythm and that tremor of adrenaline calmed. What she needed to do was think, and to do that she needed this calm.
It was daytime.
Day.
Vampires weren’t active during the day. Even the one that attacked her had been scared of the day’s light. She could see that now as she looked back.
A bubble of hysteria threatened to overtake her, but she pushed it away
Despite the blood drinking she’d seen at the club, she was going back. Kodiak had confirmed the Blood Opal was there. If she wanted to find it, that was the first place she needed to look, no matter how dangerous it might be.
No, how could it be dangerous? It was daytime.
The vampires wouldn’t be there. Tamaska snorted at the thought. Vampires…she was either losing her mind or it had been opened. Right then she didn’t know which, or what, was worse.
“You all right, Miss?”
“Sure.” She shrugged. This was the craziest thing she’d ever done times a hundred, to go back to the nightclub alone a second time. Even if it was day.
But one thing she knew was this was the safest time she could choose.
It wasn’t even open.
Vampires were creatures of the night.
And if they had humans on staff, well… What were the chances that anyone would be there after such a big weekend celebration? No one in their right mind would be there. Not this early.
It might not be early in the grand scheme of things, but for someone who lived a literal nightlife, it was.
Heck, even she could use more sleep. In normal circumstances that’s where she’d be, tucked up in bed. Instead of…whatever this was. But she’d take this weird advantage and run. Turn her life getting this messy and chaotic so rapidly, into some kind of blessing.
Tamaska wriggled in the seat, impatient to get to the club. How much daylight was left? Five hours, maybe? Surely that would be plenty of time to look around before dark.
