DeVante's Children (DeVante Trilogy) by SM Johnson

Author:SM Johnson [Johnson, SM]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: QueerMojo (A Rebel Satori Imprint)
Published: 2011-11-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

How to make a decision

Daniel didn’t wake up until afternoon. He blinked against the sunlight, glared at the ceiling, and cursed Roderick for his aversion to daytime. He didn’t know if he believed the sun would harm the vampires, but Roderick claimed there was only way to know for sure, and he’d rather not be the one to prove the myth true, thank you very much.

Daniel sighed, accustomed to spending his days alone. He leaned on his right elbow to examine his left wrist. Nothing. Not a mark, not a stain. DeVante’s taking Daniel’s blood could have been a dream.

He thought about last night, pulled out his fear, and almost recoiled all over again. His heart began to pound and he could almost smell the metallic scent of blood. He had been paralyzed with fear, the vampire on top of him, voice harsh, teeth sharp, mouth spewing angry words. Daniel locked in, immobile. Trapped. Terrified.

He was lucky to be alive.

And then he was ashamed of his fear, his reaction to what he started, what he had asked for. Hadn’t he offered his throat to DeVante? Hadn’t he actually been flirting with the vampire? Hadn’t he thrown himself to the floor, begging DeVante to do just what the vampire had done? Yes. Well, no. Daniel asked for more than what he’d gotten, but he deserved the reality check, the proof that DeVante was very, very different from Roderick. Very serious about this thing, this change that Roderick had always treated as a game.

He sighed and grabbed for the phone book—he couldn’t sit here all day and do nothing. He looked up the address for the center for gay teens. And then stared at the ceiling for a long time, feeling nervous and a little sick to his stomach. He’d been to the center just once, before he knew Roderick. Way back when, because in his other life in Duluth, he’d heard that Minneapolis was the place for gay teens to be. There were support groups, and it was advertised as being a good places to go to talk, and try to figure things out. He supposed he was disappointed last time because he’d been looking for someone to hook up with, have sex with. But when he got there, it hadn’t seemed like that kind of place, and Daniel had felt soiled for even thinking it might be.

Daniel felt infinitely wiser today. He just wanted to fit in somewhere, to belong. He wanted friends to confide in, people he could be real with. He wasn’t sure it would even be possible to connect with kids his own age, or how far he wanted to go with sharing who he was or who he might be. But he didn’t have anything better to do, and the hours would crawl if he did nothing but sit here and wait.

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