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I found myself nodding along. “So true. Cheers.” I lifted my coffee cup. It was empty. But I didn’t feel confused at all.
I tapped it against Zoey’s cup.
She nodded.
And I nodded. We knew what was going on. Bennett was the vampire. And I was going to blow garlic powder all over his perfect face.
Chapter 31
Tuesday
About halfway through the day I started to get nervous.
So we did shots.
And now the liquid courage was starting to wear off again.
I looked back down at my text from Callum. I’d lied and told him I didn’t feel well. He said he knew exactly how to make me feel better. I really wanted to know what he meant by that. But I’d replied and told him I just needed more sleep.
I hating lying to him. But I just had to keep reminding myself that he might be lying to me too. I had a lot of reasons to believe that he was a vampire.
Almost as many as I did to believe that Bennett was a vampire.
It was very possible that Zoey and I had lost our minds. Because we were more certain that one of them was a vampire than a serial killer. And in the back of my head I knew that made very little sense. No sense, really. And yet…I felt it in my bones.
“Are you all set?” Zoey asked.
“No.” I looked up from my phone. “This idea is crazy. I can’t stab Bennett with a wooden stake.”
“Do you need a glass of wine?”
“More alcohol is not going to give me the courage to hurt him. I can’t do it.”
“You can. And you will. After you blow garlic powder in his face and shove a garlic clove between his fangs.”
“He’s never tried to hurt me before.”
“But have you seen the moon tonight? It’s practically full.” She pulled back the curtain and pointed to the moon.
I walked over and stared out the window. The moon was huge tonight. Last night with Callum the moonlight had seemed romantic. Tonight it seemed menacing.
She let the curtain fall back in place. “Bennett won’t be able to control himself. The moon will make him do all sorts of terrible vampire things.”
“Which is why I shouldn’t be alone with him!”
“You have your vampire hunting weapons.”
“Why don’t you do it instead?”
“Because you’ll be able to get him alone. Bennett doesn’t want to be alone with me. Which is infuriating.”
I stared at her. This wasn’t the first time she’d said something like that. “Zoey, do you like Bennett?”
She laughed. “No. I’m not looking for anything serious.”
“That doesn’t really answer my question.”
“He’s a vampire. And a liar. And a thief.”
