Page 102 of Bitten By Desire
“Actually, I think I have it all figured out.” She finally set the éclair down. “You had a dream about Callum sucking on your neck. And a bunch of random theories about that. But it was really Bennett who convinced us it was true. I thought it was because of the pocket watch controlling our minds, but you said he said it again today. So Bennett like reeeeaaally believes in vampires. So there’s only one logical conclusion.”
I waited. But she didn’t continue. “Which is?” I took a sip of my coffee.
“It’s so obvious. Bennett is trying to take the heat off himself. Becausehe’sthe vampire.”
I almost spit out my coffee.Wait.Huh.“That somehow makes a lot of sense.”
“I know, right? It’s so obvious. And he’s really close with all his friends. Emma, I bet they’reallvampires. Do vampires usually travel in packs like that?”
I nodded. “I think I heard that somewhere. Oh my God, and he said to meet him after the sun sets tonight. And that he couldshowme his secret.”
Zoey clapped her hands together. “They probably lose control under the moonlight or something. Or turn into bats? Or sleep in coffins. Either way, we know vampires love the dark. And you just said that you and Callum had sex under the moonlight. He’s not the vampire. He never was. Bennett is.”
“He’s going to kill me tonight.”
“No. He’s not. You’re going to kill him.” She pulled out the wooden spatula from her purse.
“Why are you still carrying that around?”
“Because I haven’t trusted anything that anyone’s said. And I’m not about to be bitten by a vampire.” She handed it to me. “Oh, and you’ll need this too.” She pulled out a garlic clove. And a container of garlic powder. She tossed them at me.
“Garlic powder?” I balanced all the items in my arms.
“Yup. Put a little in your fist so that you can blow it right in his face. He’ll never even get close enough to bite you when you do that.”
Wow, that was a really good idea. I looked down at the items in my arms. Or was I really just sleep deprived? And confused?
Because suddenly I was a vampire hunter? “I can’t kill Bennett. He’s a good guy. Maybe. And we didn’t get our money out of the bank yet.”
“Eh, I was freaking out about nothing. I saw him put the code into the vault yesterday. After we get rid of him and his traveling band of vampires, we can just go into the vault and take all those relics. I bet they’re worth a fortune.”
“You want to rob their bank?”
She shrugged. “You can’t steal what’s already been stolen.”
I wasn’t sure if that’s how anything worked. But for some reason all her logic seemed very sound to me right now. “I feel like we’re going to wind up in prison somehow.”
“Officer Davis would never arrest me for reals.”
“So…just for like sex stuff?”
She shrugged. “Let’s keep brainstorming though. Because it really seems a shame to drive a wooden stake through someone’s heart when that someone has such a magnificent cock.”
“Good point.”
She pulled a flask out of her purse and put some into her coffee. “Want some more?”
I just stared at her and then down at my cup. “This coffee is spiked?”
“Yeah, we always spiked it in college and came up with our best ideas.”
“I never knew it was spiked!”
“Really?” She laughed. “How did you not realize that? Seriously, almost every time.”
“It’s not even 10 am!”
“I know. All our ideas would have been terrible if we were sober. Good thing I always carry a flask in my purse. Or we’d never have figured out that Bennett is the vampire.”
