Murphy's Law of Vampires (Love at First Bite Book 2) by Declan Finn

Author:Declan Finn [Finn, Declan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-11-07T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14: Remember, Remember…

September 11th, 12:06 am

Doctor Robert Catalano opened his door to Amanda Colt standing on his doorstep. “Hi. How are you?”

Amanda gave him a weary smile. “Do you really wish to ask?”

Robert stood to one side to let her in, and said, “Wouldn’t have asked if I didn’t. Parlor or living room?”

Amanda moved inside. “Living room. I don’t have fond memories of the parlor. Marco killed Lily there.”

Robert shrugged and closed the door. I don’t know. Isn’t it every girlfriend’s dream to see her boyfriend’s ex set on fire? “Can I get you anything? We don’t have blood, but I recall you ingest food.”

Amanda shook her head. “No thank you.” She slid into one of the living room chairs and slunk down. She looked almost boneless.

Robert sat down behind his desk in the corner. “What can I do for you?”

“It has been difficult without Marco here. His gangs eye me like I am a party favor, and many vampires do not want to be seen with me, given all the trouble my ‘pet human’ has caused.”

Robert suddenly had an image of Marco on a leash. It didn’t really work, though, not with his son’s temperament. “As far as the gangs are concerned, you do realize that one phone call from Marco would have them all keeping a respectful distance.”

One of Amanda’s eyebrows went up, and a wry smile crept across her face. “I am vampyre. If I want them scared, I do it myself.” She sighed.

“Amanda, why did you come here? I can’t imagine it’s to complain about something you’re eminently qualified to handle yourself.”

“I don’t have anything else to do. I have nowhere to go. I have already fixed the gang members at the hospital.”

Robert blinked. “How does that work?”

Amanda paused, and forgot that she had not explained what she was doing. “The microbes that are part of my condition are transferred to any blood donor, enabling them to survive the donation. In the case of actively healing someone, I prolong the contact of saliva and blood, without the actual blood-drinking.”

Robert furrowed his brow, thought it over a moment, and nodded, accepting it as reasonable. “Makes sense. When are the gang members going to get out of the hospital?”

“If I continue with the treatments, maybe a week.”

Robert leaned back in his chair, his brow still furrowed. He stared off at a point on the wall next to Amanda’s head, and he said, “When this first started, Marco swabbed a wound on one of the victims. Basically, I sent samples of vampire saliva to the CDC. Strangely enough, I never heard back from them.”

Amanda thought, Oooh, that will come back and bite me later. I wonder if they have already sent those test results up the chain of command, or if they’re still running the tests? “It may be interesting.”

“Have you ever considered growing the microorganisms? That way you don’t have to be bothered with the biting?”

Amanda arched a brow. “You realize that we would have to quantify the amount of microbes in the blood that turns someone into a vampire before we did that.

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