Page 282 of His Sunshine Baby

“No, this one is alive!”

They left one alive? I relay the information immediately to the Black brothers, including Nate who just arrived at the scene, and they are all as surprised as I am.

“Go,” says Damian. “I’ll coordinate with Lysandra to see if anything happened on their territory.”

I nod, and both Nate and I turn around, taking his car to go back to the north. What a crazy day this is!

“How’s your day going, my sunshine?” he sighs in the car.

“I did not expect to find dead humans in the river or to be faced with my cousins’ little escapade,” I growl.

Moreover, I’m ruining his car with my pants and shoes covered in blood and water, and my hands are no better. I’m in no mood to joke either, and everyone is shocked by my appearance when I arrive back to the former White Moon territory. My best friend shakes his head, seeing me arrive in front of the White Moon Clinic, as per the information I got meanwhile.

“You look like–”

“Please, Danny,” I sigh, “Not today. You found one alive, you say?”

“Yeah,” he says as we keep walking. “We took her to the ER right away, she was bleeding a lot, and having trouble breathing. A middle-aged female, human. She was still conscious when we brought her here.”

He guides us inside the clinic to the room where a woman, sobbing loudly and visibly terrorized, is cornered on one end of the bed. She’s still soaked despite the hospital gown they put her in, and very, very thin. She looks sick: her eyes too big for her face and her dark hair is a mess.

“Leave me alone, you dogs!” she yells at the closest nurse, which happens to be Daniel’s mom, Abigail.

“Who are you,” I ask her, holding her wrist as she’s about to hit.

“Let me go! Let me go, I don’t want to be near those dogs!!”

“Dogs?” I repeat, confused.

What the heck is wrong with that woman? Now that I notice it, she’s only glaring, and apparently afraid, of the werewolves present. One of our nurses is human, and the only one she lets approach.

“You hate werewolves?” I ask.

“You’re just talking dogs! I hate you! Let me go back to my master!”

“Your master… You’re a vampire’s property?” I suddenly realize, shocked.

“I only belong to my master! He’s my everything!”

She keeps screaming, and it’s so annoying, I have a hard time not slapping her. Nathaniel has to intervene to help the nurses put her in the shackles as I step back, letting them handle it while I think. Daniel and I exchange a look, shocked.

I had heard that vampires keep some humans like pets so they can toy with them and, most importantly, feed on them. To those humans, from what I had heard previously, the blood sucking thing is addicting, almost turning them into some creepy junkies. Now that I look at her, that woman has numerous bite marks on her neck and shoulders. The other bodies had their throats too damaged and ripped open to make a difference, but…

“What happened?” I ask her, once they had her shackled to her bed.

“I am not answering a filthy dog! You bit–”

Nathaniel is about to jump at her, but I hold his arm, and step forward, staring at that woman, and, without thinking, using all of my Alpha Aura. There is something strange happening with my wolf, too. She’s… I don’t know, it’s like some warm halo around her presence, different from the usual feeling. I don’t have the luxury to study that now though.

“Answer me!” I growl furiously.

Suddenly, the look in that woman’s eyes changes from anger to fear. She looks at me like I’m some monster, a terrifying monster. She stutters a bit, shivering.

“I… My… master… attacked us…”

“Why? What happened?”

“The Master… he wasn’t feeding… he was hungry… A lot of vampires were hungry… And the woman in the black dress was waiting…”

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