Switchers Trilogy by Kate Thompson

Author:Kate Thompson [Thompson, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4804-2433-3
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2013-04-30T17:07:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

THE FOLLOWING MORNING WAS Sunday and Tess slept late. She slept so late that her father slipped into the room to check that she was all right before he went off to play a round of golf with a friend from the office.

‘It’s normal for a teenager,’ her mother told him when he expressed concern. ‘She’ll be up and about soon.’

But when Tess had still not come downstairs by lunch-time, her mother made a cup of tea and brought it up to the bedroom. The first Tess knew of the day was the rattle of the runners on the curtain rail and the subsequent blaze of winter sunlight that fell upon her face. To her, still sleeping off the vampire feed of the night before, the sudden burst of light on her skin felt like a bucket of boiling water. She yelped and sat up, scrabbling for the bed covers.

‘Tess!’ said her mother. ‘What on earth is wrong?’

Tess said nothing, but threw herself back down on the bed, pulling the duvet up over her head.

‘Come on, Tess,’ said her mother brightly. ‘I’ve brought you a cup of tea.’

Tess’s voice was muffled beneath the duvet. ‘Leave me alone. I don’t want to. get up.’

‘But it’s one-thirty! If you don’t get up soon you’ll ‘miss the daylight altogether!’

‘What do I want with daylight?’ Tess’s voice sounded slightly husky to her mother.

‘Are you ill, sweetheart? Have you got a sore throat?’

‘No. I’m not ill. I just don’t want to get up, all right?’

Her mother stayed in the room for another minute or two before deciding not to make an issue of it and returning downstairs. Tess listened to the receding footsteps, then turned over and tried to go back to sleep.

It was too late, though. She was awake now in a groggy, leaden sort of way. The events of the previous night slid into her mind, producing a strange mixture of guilt and delight. She knew that what had happened was wrong, but the memory of the hypnotic power of her vampire eyes and voice still thrilled her, and the sensation of that keen hunger being satisfied. She wondered where the couple from the car were now, and laughed out loud to think of them waking together and wondering how they had come to fall asleep in the first place. She thought of Martin sleeping in his blacked-out room and wondered whether she, like him, could get out of going to school.

Carefully, inch by inch, Tess drew the cover from her face. The light didn’t feel so bad, now that the initial shock had passed. She reached for the cup of tea that her mother had left on the bedside table. As she sipped it, she ran her tongue around her mouth, feeling her teeth. They were neat and even again now, the canines back to their normal, blunt condition. But Tess’s mind was still functioning along nocturnal lines, and it wasn’t until daylight began to fade and her father returned from

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