Chapter 2
Galen walked into the Hornet at seven-thirty the following evening. At first he didn’t see Luc and thought perhaps he had changed his mind. Then he spotted him at a table at the back of the side room and joined him.
“Hungry?” Luc asked.
“I could eat something—I think.”
“You think?”
“I’m a bundle of nerves right now,” Galen told him.
“Relax. I promise we’re not going to force you to do anything you don’t want to. I’d just like you to meet Noah. Once you have, and he explains what’s what, you can walk away and we won’t bother you again.”
Galen nodded. “That’s a relief, I suppose. Of course I’ll still be able to see—” He glanced around to be certain no one could hear him, and even then lowered his voice to just above a whisper, “—To see vampires.”
“I’m afraid so. It comes wi
