Sucks to Be Me by Kristen Painter

Author:Kristen Painter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sugar Skull Books
Published: 2020-02-12T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Darkness fell within the hour after Rico left. One of the benefits of winter’s approach. It would be even better when daylight saving time took effect.

The first thing Donna did was dig out the manual for the alarm system and change the code. She should have done it sooner, but it had only just occurred to her that Joe might have shared the code with Big Tony. She wasn’t sure why he would have done that, but all Big Tony would have had to do was ask.

That was just how things worked in the family.

Once that was done, Donna didn’t want to stay home. Not after Big Tony’s text. And especially after what had happened with Yuri. But the meeting wasn’t until ten. It was in the city, so it would take a half hour to get there, but Donna was itching to leave early. Even if all she did was walk around, she wanted to be someplace else than in this house.

What did one wear to a meeting of newly turned vampires?

Her wardrobe options that fit were still slim, so she went with a pair of her new jeans, hew new black T-shirt, and a vintage Chanel jacket that had always been a little snug on her. It fit perfectly now and looked like a million bucks. She added ankle boots and some jewelry, grabbed her purse, then went downstairs to feed Lucky.

“Not sure what time I’ll be home, kiddo.” She scratched his head while he ate his lamb and rice stew. “Don’t let any strangers in, okay?”

He kept eating.

She gave him one last scratch, then stood and went out to the garage, making sure the alarm was on.

As the garage door went up, she stared intently in the rearview mirror, looking for headlights or movement. Any sign that someone was out there. There wasn’t anything, but that might only mean she hadn’t seen them.

She backed out into the driveway, then sat there until the door was down. She wasn’t taking any chances. All the landscape lighting was on, too, which was a lot. The place was lit up like they were having a party.

Good. Creeping around wouldn’t be so easy with that much brightness.

She got on the highway and headed for her destination, guided by her phone’s GPS app. The drive was nice. Traffic was lighter this time of night, and with her sharper vision, nothing was really that dark.

It was. But it wasn’t. She’d never experienced anything like it with human eyes. Was this how Rico saw things as a werewolf? She shook her head. A werewolf. Who would have imagined?

To say her life had changed recently was an understatement.

The idea of this support group made her a little nervous, but mostly intrigued her. Since Claudette had yet to respond to Donna’s attempt to contact her, Donna was hoping the group might answer some questions.

Would that make her look like a complete newbie, though? Sure, she was a complete newbie, but she didn’t want to come off as completely clueless.

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