Blood Candy by Matthew Tomasetti

Author:Matthew Tomasetti
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: vampire, urban fantasy, paranormal romance, supernatural, werewolf, parody, lycan, new adult

Chapter Fourteen

“So tell me, Candy. How exactly did you come into the acquaintance of the Misfits?”

Anastasia had one ghostly pale leg crossed over the other, sitting there in her skirt and dress jacket across from Candy like she was a real, grown woman. Strange didn’t begin to describe the vampire girl, or her family for that matter. Bizarre didn’t do her justice, either. And to make the situation even stranger, the windows in the back of the town car were tinted completely black—Candy couldn’t see out and no one could see in. She knew the horizon had to still be streaked red outside, but Anastasia and Blake were perfectly safe inside.

“They saved me,” Candy said. “Tinch did. He introduced me to them.”

“Tinch,” Anastasia said with a touch of fondness. “One of the wiser wolves I’ve come across. He may be hard on the outside, but he’s soft in the middle. He’s always concerned with the best interest of others.”

“I wasn’t aware you know him.”

Anastasia smiled. “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. It pays in large dividends to know everything and everyone in the supernatural world.”

“You consider him an enemy?”

“Old feuds.” Anastasia shrugged. “I’m not in the business of making enemies, my dear. I’m a vampire and he’s a wolf. Some people have a hard time letting go of the past, even when that past stretches hundreds of years and no one remembers what the quarrel was about in the first place.”

“We’re a peaceable family,” Blake interjected. “It’s in our best interest to have good relationships with mortals, lycans, and vampire families alike. We refrain from drinking human blood because we want to break the old molds and change the way the world works.”

“My son is very wise for his age. ‘Make love, not war’ has been my motto for a long time.”

Candy didn’t really care about whatever point Anastasia was trying to make and she wanted nothing more than to turn her attention out a window rather than have to hold the vampire girl’s pale-eyed gaze. The longer she sat in the car with the vampire girl, the more uncomfortable she became, until it felt like she was freezing.

“I should warn you,” Anastasia said. “They will ask you some personal questions. Keep calm and answer only what they ask. Don’t elaborate and keep it to a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no.’ I’ll do most of the talking, and remember what we discussed. You and Blake have been madly in love for months, and you have accepted his request to be bound to him.”

Candy nodded. She hoped they wouldn’t ask anything she might stumble over.

“It won’t be that bad,” Anastasia said, as if she could read the worry on Candy’s face. “They may ask where you and Blake met each other; if they do, say at a local club. Those places crawl with vampires and no one will think twice about it.”

“What do you mean about being bound?” Candy asked her.

Anastasia appraised Candy for a moment before she answered. “I suppose you should know.

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