Moon Child by J. R. Rain

Author:J. R. Rain [Rain, J. R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: stephen king, Vampires, vampire detective, vampire and werewolf, vampire books, vampire adult fantasy, werewolf paranormal romance, contemporary fantasy, vampire, supernatural, charlaine harris, vampire mysteries, dean koontz, Thriller, vampire cop detective killer vengeance blood, jr rain, vampire book, werewolf and vampire, vampire death blood undead blood lust murder killing feeding college student, laurell k hamilton, john saul, werewolf and shifter, mystery, amanda hocking, Romance Speculative Fiction, werewolf, vampire and shapeshifter, john sandford, werewolves, Gothic, suspense, stephenie meyer
ISBN: 9781105798894
Amazon: B005CQ80R2
Goodreads: 10405045
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2011-07-13T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-five

“A vampire?” he said.

“Yes.”

“And you’re serious?”

“As a corpse.”

“I don’t know whether to laugh or be afraid.”

“You can laugh, if you want. Lord knows I’ve done it a few times. Of course, my laughter usually turns into tears. But you certainly don’t need to be afraid, Detective.”

Yet another police car pulled up to the hospital. A young officer dashed out and headed for the hospital’s main doors. Through it all, Sherbet hadn’t taken his eyes off me. I didn’t blame him.

“I have a secret, too,” he said finally.

“Oh no,” I said. “Please don’t tell me you’re the Werewolf King or something.”

He chuckled lightly. “No, but I would have loved to see the look on your face.”

“What’s your secret, Detective? Seems like a good night to spill them.”

“I’ve known you were a vampire for some time.”

“Really?”

“It’s the only thing that made sense. Your strange disease, the dead gang banger drained of blood, the punch through the bulletproof glass, the dead prisoner.”

“Why didn’t you say anything?”

“Because it was a new theory and I was still debating whether or not I was going insane.”

“A question I’ve asked myself a thousand times.”

“I have another secret,” he confessed.

“I don’t think I can handle any more secrets,” I said.

“I’ve seen Twilight five times.”

I wasn’t sure I’d heard him right. “You saw what five times?”

“Twilight. My boy loves it. He can’t get it enough of it. We’ve seen the sequels a few times, too. Also, I watched them for, you know, research.”

Detective Sherbet loved his boy. Of that there was no doubt. That he had been worried sick that his young son was showing early signs of homosexuality was almost comical. With that said, I had been touched by Sherbet’s ability to come to terms with the concept. If anything, he loved his boy even more. Still, the thought of the gruff detective sitting through the various naked torso scenes in Twilight and its sequels for “research” would normally have had me laughing so hard that I might have peed. But not tonight.

“Anyway,” he said, clearly embarrassed. “You could say I’m something of a vampire expert now.”

“I see,” I said, and now I did laugh. “I hadn’t realized I was sitting next to an expert.”

He laughed, too, but then quickly turned somber. “But those are just movies. This is real, isn’t it, Sam?”

“I’m afraid so.”

“You really are a vampire.”

I shrugged, my old defense kicking in. “I don’t know what I am, Detective.”

“What does that mean?”

“It means I’m the same person I’ve always been, except sometimes when I’m not. It means that I feel the same that I’ve always felt, except sometimes when I don’t. It means I act the same, think the same, and do the same things I’ve always done.

“Except when you don’t,” said Sherbet.

“Yes, exactly. It means I’m still me. I’m still a mom. I’m still a woman. I’m still a sister. And I’m still a friend.”

“But you’re also something else. Something more.”

I nodded. “And sometimes I’m that, too.”

We were silent for a minute or two.

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