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If Fiona had had something to drink or eat here, she might have thought she was hallucinating. “Open your mouths.”
Everyone did, but the fangs were gone. She blinked—twice.
“We conceal them. We normally only show them off when we’re angry or in a fight,” Arman said. “There’s no need to otherwise. Except for show and tell.”
“Or to drink someone’s blood,” she said.
“We have our own vampire blood banks,” Ruric explained. “Humans donate their blood, we pay them for it, but no one even knows that vampires are using it. Everyone’s happy.”
“You’re not going to drink my blood?” Fiona asked, thinking back to the curse. They might get sick or something if they drank her blood, if any of this was true.
“No. We’re here to save you, but I think we ought to be leaving,” Arman said.
The others all looked at him and she swore something was being communicated between them, but she wasn’t getting the message. “I’m still in the room.”
“Will you go with us? The blood moon is nearly here, just a few days away. That’s when they will convince you to be one of them, or they’ll eliminate you,” Arman said.
That made her think back to what Tobias and Regina had been talking about earlier.
Stasio disappeared and reappeared with a book.
“We normally don’t do that,” Ruric said, motioning to Stasio. “We just walk into the next room and bring the book back here.”
“Time is of the essence,” Stasio said. “That girl who was supposed to be watching out for you will soon learn you’re not at school and report back to Tobias and Regina. They will call up their people to locate you.”
“People. The others at the Halloween party who disappeared so strangely,” Fiona said. None of it still made any sense, but maybe that’s why Regina and the others seemed so…strange. “What about my brother, Justin?”
“He’s dead. They killed him and your parents,” Arman said.
Tears filled Fiona’s eyes. “No.”
“Yes,” Levka said. “Arman is telling you the truth. They had to get you away from your family.”
“Regina lied about all of it, the car accident, leaving out the part that your brother isn’t alive either,” Arman said.
Fiona quickly wiped away tears.
Then everyone looked at Levka and she swore they were talking to each other in secret again.
Fiona let out her breath in a huff. “I’m still in the room.”
“We’re going to take you somewhere safe until we can leave for a place even farther away. Once the blood moon has passed, you’ll be safe,” Levka said.
“You’re planning to take me where?” Fiona asked.
“Dallas,” Arman said.
“Don’t tell me, we have to leave our luggage behind,” Jasmine said, sounding exasperated.
“We each have backpacks. Hurry and pack what you can in those and we’ll leave,” Levka said.
“What if I don’t want to go with you?” Not that Fiona wanted to stay with Regina and Tobias, especially after hearing what these…vampires had to say about them, if it was all true—but what if it wasn’t?
“You don’t have to go with us,” Jasmine said. “They saved my life too. I didn’t have to go with them, but it was either that and help watch their backs as they watched mine or fend for myself on my own. I’m known as a vampire assassin, so I can usually take care of myself. I eliminate rogue vampires. But I wouldn’t have made it on my own that time. They didn’t take me with them because they had to. They did it because they wanted to keep me safe.”
“Dallas is where—” Fiona hesitated to finish her words. She thought her brother was at the college there. “Are you sure my brother is dead?”
Stasio disappeared and reappeared, handing her a newspaper. “I’m the historian of the bunch, but I also researched all about you when Arman said he was having visions of you.”
