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“Yeah. We’ll need to do our own laundry, keep our own rooms cleaned, look after ourselves,” Levka said.
Arman asked, “You let the human staff go?”
“Aye. They’re too easily influenced. They’ve been given two weeks’ vacation in the Cayman Islands. They’ll have a good time, and they won’t be hurt or eliminated if the wrong vampires show up here and they were to let them in,” Levka said.
“Good idea,” Arman said.
“We’re used to taking care of ourselves,” Ruric said, “though in the future, robots could do all of it. And they couldn’t be controlled by rogue vampires.”
“But they could be controlled by a rogue vampire hacker,” Stasio said.
Everyone laughed.
“Have you had any further word from my parents?” Fiona asked Michail and his sister.
Why wouldn’t her parents contact her, not the other vampires?
“Not yet,” Shelly said. “They’ve been trying to stay off the grid in case Tobias wants to still take your dad as a hostage and control him. I’m sure they’ll be here in no time at all, especially before the day of the blood moon.”
Then the guys all went out back where several grills were situated on a large stone patio and they began to grill hamburgers and corn on the cob.
Jasmine said to Fiona, “I thought Justin took the business of us being vampires well, didn’t you?”
“After he got over the initial shock, yes. It sounds like he wants to be turned, but he might have just been joking about it,” Fiona said. “I don’t want him turned just because someone thought he truly meant it when he didn’t.”
“Right,” Caitlin said. “For me, it was a life or death matter, so an easy choice to make. But it was also forbidden by the League of Vampires, so Levka was in trouble for that.”
“Oh, I didn’t know that,” Fiona said.
“Not here in Scotland because we overthrew the old rulers,” Jasmine said. “We have a new League of Vampire’s Bill of Rights, and turning someone in the case where it’s mutually agreeable is perfectly acceptable.”
“Oh,” Fiona said. Here she’d thought that Arman’s offer of turning her was legal and he wouldn’t be in any conflict for it. But from the sounds of it, only Scotland allowed for it. So if they stayed in Scotland, they were fine, but if they left the country, that would be another story. She didn’t want Arman or any of the others to get into any issues over her. Then again, wasn’t that another reason they had been in trouble? For helping hunters or humans out when they should be left to fend for themselves?
17
After dinner, Justin was shown to his room next to Ruric’s and everyone retired to bed.
Arman was staying with Fiona, and she was glad Justin hadn’t made an issue of it, though she suspected he was glad Arman was there to protect her.
She had finally drifted off to sleep with Arman and thought she might be with him in her dreams.
But then she found herself in a darkened area with dim streetlights and warehouse buildings when she saw Levka and the other princes telling some thugs to release a couple of teen girls they were hassling. Before she could fathom what was going on, one of the brutish guys aimed to shoot at the girl and Levka vanished and appeared between the gunman and the girl, taking three bullets to protect her.
Ohmigod, this was too awful. Levka was in bad shape, but his friends quickly took care of the thugs and ferreted the girls to safety. Levka began dreaming of the nightmare again, as if he was in a continuous loop and he couldn’t stop reliving the terror. Fiona jumped in, making herself appear like a dragon, breathing fire and sending the thugs screaming off into night.
Levka just stared at her. The girls fainted. She didn’t see any of his friends as if it was just Levka and her. Then he dreamed he was on a cruise ship meeting Caitlin, and worried about her because some teen guy was threatening her. But Levka had been wounded—and Fiona realized it was from being shot. Dang it. She had to change the scenario and she tossed the bully off the ship and smiled.
Then Arman and the others soon joined them and before Fiona was ready for it, Levka was kissing Caitlin and Fiona smiled. She figured his nightmares, hopefully, were over for the night.
She woke herself up and wrote the dream down so she could ask Arman about it tomorrow.
But then she closed her eyes and tried to search for anyone else’s dreams she might find. Like Shelly and Michail’s. Dreams could be so crazy and mixed up. She wasn’t sure if they were really the truth or just something nonsensical. Yet she sensed the dreams her friends had were things that had actually happened to them and were reoccurring nightmares. What if she could learn something important about Shelly or her brother? Now that would be truly cool.
The next thing Fiona knew was she was chasing after Arman and laughing hysterically. She couldn’t catch him until he suddenly stopped and turned, and she collided with him. He swept her up in his arms and kissed her. Now this was more like it!
* * *
The next morning, Fiona woke and heard Arman in the bathroom showering. She dressed and called out, “I’ll see you downstairs.”
