Mile High with a Vampire EPB by Sands Lynsay

Author:Sands, Lynsay
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Avon
Published: 2021-09-27T16:00:00+00:00

Ten

“Mary sleeping?”

Quinn had been looking out the plane window, staring blindly at the clouds moving past, when Jet asked that question. Turning her head, she watched Dante settle into one of the seats across the table from them and nod.

“Sì. Mary has not slept since we heard about the crash,” Dante said on a sigh. “I did on the plane on the way up, but I know she did not, and then neither of us has slept since arriving.”

“And yet you’re awake,” Jet pointed out with amusement.

Dante shrugged, and rather than address that, said, “I am wondering if anyone took the precaution of checking this plane for bombs before we left?”

Quinn felt Jet stiffen beside her, and knew Dante’s words were making her do the same.

“Syd Wheeler is the pilot. I know him. I’ll go ask if a check was done,” Jet said abruptly, getting up.

Dante nodded, and watched him go, then turned to smile at her crookedly. “I suppose it would have been better for me to think of that before we were in the air.”

“At least you thought of it,” she pointed out. “Considering what Jet and I went through during the last flight, it should have been on the top of our minds when Anders drove us to the airport.”

Dante smiled faintly, and then turned to glance toward the front of the plane. When there was no sign of Jet yet, he settled back in his seat with a sigh.

They were both silent for a minute, and then Quinn cleared her throat and said, “Mary mentioned that she had to leave her children after she was turned.”

Dante looked startled at the comment, and then sadness and regret crossed his face and he nodded. “Sì. They are grown, with children of their own, and she had to give them up as well as her grandbabies for me.”

“And yet she still agreed to the turn?” Quinn asked with wonder, not sure if she was more surprised that the woman was old enough to be a grandmother, or that she had given up her children like that. Quinn didn’t think she could have done it. In fact, she was quite sure she couldn’t have.

“She was not given a choice,” Dante admitted quietly. “I had to turn her to save her life after the RV we were in was forced off the road and rolled. Her children and grandchildren believe she died in that accident.”

“Oh,” Quinn breathed.

Dante considered her briefly, and then said, “I am surprised she would share that with you. She normally does not speak of it.”

Quinn recalled the woman’s words at the time. “Frankly, looking at the different permutations, it seems to me that this was the happiest of outcomes. The three of you were turned and still have each other,” she’d said, referring to her, Pet, and Parker. “And as a mother who had to remove herself from the lives of her children and grandchildren after being turned, I cannot express how much I envy you that.”

Their conversation had been interrupted then, but Mary hadn’t really spoken to her since.

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