Page 102 of Suck This

I pinched the bridge of my nose in irritation.

“Do you think that Seraphina and Jolie are working with the human activists, or is this a separate issue altogether?”

“I’m not sure,” Adelaide admitted. “But I plan on figuring that out once some of my contacts report back to me.”

I nodded.

“Thank you, Adelaide.”

Adelaide had always provided the type of services that no one in the world could equal, and I’d never appreciated that more.

“You’re welcome, Con.”

With that, Adelaide was gone, leaving Abe holding his phone and looking at me with a wide grin on his face.

“I feel like I need to meet this Adelaide,” Acadia murmured. “She seems very helpful.”

I tightened my hand on her hip, and her mouth twitched.

“Your place was breached around five this afternoon.”

“And I wasn’t informed?” I growled.

“You were informed,” Abe interjected. “In fact, I had Adelaide call three times. And I called four.”

I opened my mouth to start shouting and quickly shut it at Acadia’s next words.

Acadia squirmed. “You were asleep. That was the entire reason that she came.”

“What do you mean?” I asked her, looking down at her beautiful, concerned face.

“That was how they kept you distracted,” she pointed out. “Whatever she did to keep you asleep, it was enough to keep you from knowing what was going on at your place.”

“And Nola?” I asked stiffly.

Acadia shook her head.

“That seems more like an F-U on her part rather than actually needing to do it,” she admitted. “But again, all of these are just guesses. I have no proof.”

“So she has some vampire superpower that no one else has?” I growled, getting angry all over again.

“More likely she introduced something into the air that caused you all to be affected,” Abe said.

“Then why did Acadia wake up and not the rest of us?”

That was Fox.

“Because Acadia’s different,” I murmured. “She’s not been normal since she was turned. And I haven’t figured out exactly why yet. I haven’t fed her in over forty-eight hours. That’s only normal for the oldest of vampires. And that’s not even to mention that she walked out in full sun to Nola and didn’t even flinch.”

“A dayer.”

“What’s a dayer?”

“A vampire, a rare one, that doesn’t need sleep to function,” I murmured. “Doesn’t need to feed but once in a blue moon, and is as strong if not stronger than the oldest of vampires. Oh, and dayers don’t feed off of humans. They feed off of undead blood. That’s why you didn’t find what Chen was drinking appealing.”

Her brows furrowed.

“You’re stronger than me,” she pointed out. “And you drink my blood and are able to sustain yourself.”

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