Vampires Don't Sparkle! by Mia Archer & Andrew Beymer

Author:Mia Archer & Andrew Beymer
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Beymer Books
Published: 2019-07-30T22:00:00+00:00

24

Local PD

I blinked a couple of times as a bright light shone down on me. For a confused moment I thought it was the bright light at the end of the tunnel that everyone says they see when they’ve died. There was something funny about the thought of a bright light hitting me, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. Something about…

Then it all came rushing back to me. Along with the pain of what I imagined were a couple of bullet holes that were quickly knitting themselves up as my body came back to life.

I really hoped it spit that lead out, Wolverine style, when all was said and done.

“Huh,” I sputtered. “Getting shot must not be all that bad if I didn’t even have an out of body with that one.”

That or the pain had been so severe that I’d completely blocked the whole out of body experience. Yeah, I really didn’t want to get shot ever again. That hurt like a motherfucker!

“Holy shit!” someone shouted.

I blinked a couple more times and looked around. I found myself staring at a couple of very confused EMTs as well as a familiar face smiling down at me and not looking nearly as worried as the Chief of Police should be after one of his guys gunned down an innocent girl.

“I am so suing your department,” I said with a smile.

“Then I’m totally releasing the bodycam footage that shows you ripping the door off its hinges with a black cloud all around you and an eerie glow in your eyes,” he said with a grin of his own.

“Glowing eyes?” I asked. “That’s a new one.”

“I’ve seen your dad do it a couple of times,” he said. “Usually when he was really ticked off. So the question is what had you so worked up?”

I coughed a couple of times, and immediately regretted it for all that it was an involuntary reaction to having a tickle in my chest. The problem was that tickle in my chest was caused by a bullet hole that was healing up faster than any wound would ever heal for a normal mortal, and coughing meant it opened up just a touch.

“Man that hurts,” I said.

“Yeah, at least you get to heal up nice and quick,” the Chief said. “It hurts even more when you have to heal the old fashioned way. You’re lucky I got here before they took you to the hospital.”

“Oh God,” I said. “Not those old sawbones with their anesthetic and scalpels.”

The Chief got down on his knees next to me. I pulled myself up. One of the EMTs looked like he was going to protest, but a single look from the Chief was enough to get him to settle down.

“Let the girl get up if she wants to,” he said. “You of all people should know she’ll be fine.”

“Well maybe,” he said. “But this is the first time we’ve seen her get shot.”

The Chief grunted, and the EMT backed off. Then he turned that glare on me.

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