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“Instinct, but of course I can’t be certain.” Stasio figured Levka would interrogate him further about the woman.
“She is pretty,” Ruric said, as if trying to learn why Stasio would leave them to talk to her.
“She was…interesting,” Stasio responded as they loaded up in a black minivan.
“Why did you speak to her?” Levka finally got to the point.
“She seemed interested in us. Curious. Her reaction made me…wary.”
“You are sure she is not one of us?” Arman asked. “If the league with jurisdiction over this area has already discovered we’re here, I suggest a change of plans and we go somewhere else.”
“When I just made reservations for Stasio’s castle?” Ruric shook his head. He loved hacking into systems to get them the best possible places to stay and the same with transportation and food. But he didn’t like it when he had to change plans quickly and give up on all the hard work he had done already for them.
“We’ll trust she was just a curious human,” Levka said, though Stasio was sure he was still wary of the whole situation.
They had to be to remain free and safe.
They headed first for a department store that had men and women’s clothing, food, furniture, you name it. Though all they needed were luggage, clothes, and toiletries. As soon as Stasio went to pay for them, he smiled at the pretty, dark-haired clerk.“Do you want to get a cup of coffee when you’re off?”
“I have a boyfriend, but thanks for the offer. I can’t place your accent. Welsh and American?”
She was a vampire so Stasio had to pay for the purchases with cash. “American with Welsh parents,” he said, out loud, so that his friends who were waiting to see how he would pay for the items, listened in.
“Oh, cool.” Then she rang up everything and bagged their clothes. “Looks like you’re going on a trip.”
“Lost luggage on the trip here.”
“Oh, wow. All of it, eh?”
“Yeah. Way too many connections. They’ll probably catch up to us when we return home.”
“To?”
She was too curious for his own good. “New York,” he said.
“Cool. I always wanted to visit the Big Apple.”
Then he said goodbye and they took their purchases out to the rental van. Arman was sweating. Ruric shook his head.
Levka said, “Why were you talking so much to her?”
They wanted to keep their anonymity.
“I was trying to learn if she was a vampire or not so we could get our items free,” Stasio said.
“We have enough money, and it’s better not to give away too much information to anyone, should Petroski or Vlad learn we’re here.” Levka sighed.
“I didn’t tell her the truth about us.”
“Yeah, but there are five of us, four males and a female, and that makes us easier to remember,” Arman said.
“Which is why we should have all checked out our own stuff separately, except for Caitlin,” Stasio said.
“It would have taken too long,” Levka said.
“I’ve checked for human blood banks, none that are close by,” Ruric said. “I suggest that we have Caitlin go on her own to a vampire blood bank. I know we were worried about us showing up for one because we might get caught, but she’s not known in Wales.”
“I don’t like that idea,” Levka said.
