Wicked Moon (Vampire for Hire Book 29) by J.R. Rain & Matthew S. Cox
Author:J.R. Rain & Matthew S. Cox [Rain, J.R. & Cox, Matthew S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rain Press
Published: 2021-07-11T00:00:00+00:00
Chapter Twenty-Two
Close Call
Speaking of giant crap boulders falling on the unsuspectingâ¦
My phone rings while Iâm sitting in line waiting for the proverbial anthill explosion of children to burst forth from the doors of Paxtonâs school. I check the caller ID to see if itâs something I can ignore for nowâgood grief I get a lot of telemarketing junkâbut upon seeing Mary Louâs name, I flick the slide on the screen.
âHey, Mare. Whatâs up?â
âSam,â says my older sister, half frantic, half crying. âItâs Rickâ¦â
Oh, shit. Whatever she says next canât possibly be good, merely varying degrees of bad. I cross my fingers (and toes) hoping itâs on the lighter side of awful. âWhatâs going on?â
She lets out a slow sigh. âHe collapsed at work. Mike told me he complained of chest pains before he passed out. I think he had a heart attack but the doctors arenât saying anything yet.â
âYouâre at the hospital?â
âYes. Anaheim Regional,â says Mary Lou in half a sob. âJust me and Billy at the moment.â
This is perhaps the first time in our lives where it feels like my big sis needs me to take care of her. Iâm not sure sheâs even aware she needs me on a level conscious enough to ask for help, but she doesnât have to. Her sixteen-year-old, Ruby Grace, is still living at home despite splitting her time evenly between high school and early college courses. The kidâs a literal genius. How she came from our genes, I have no idea. Her son, Billy Joe, works with his dad as an apprentice electrician. The oldest, Ellie Mae, is in Virginia now, halfway through college. Sheâs even got a serious boyfriend and talks of marrying him once she graduates.
I canât even process that one of my sisterâs kids is fully grown up.
âIâll be there as soon as I can. Pax is about to walk out the door of her school.â
Mary Lou sniffs. âYes, of course.â
We talk about the situation for about three minutes before the bell goes off in the school building. My sister doesnât know much yet. Rick was at work when he clutched his chest without warning and dropped where he stood. Fortunately, theyâd been working at a site in Anaheim less than a mile from the hospital. Mary Lou is getting herself worked up in preparation for bad news. Thereâs an unspoken subtext hanging between us where I think sheâs hoping I âdo somethingâ to make Rick into an immortal if he should die. Unfortunately⦠my ability to pass this thing on might have died when Elizabeth and I separated. I changed from being a relatively standard blood-feeding vampire to a mental-energy consuming vampire who really doesnât care about sunlight at all. The typical way to pass vampirism along involves blood transfer, and I donât think my vampirism has anything to do with blood.
There may be an equivalent process involving mental energy, but as far as I know, Iâm the only one of my kind and I havenât tried to turn anyone else into whatever I am.
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