Chapter 2
After hours of driving through the rough terrain, Mira’s lower body had all but gone numb. Desperate to get up and stretch her muscles, she pulled the large transport vehicle behind a boulder and shut down all external lights.
“What are you doing?” a sleepy Sarah called from the back of the vehicle. She gently kissed her husband, Curtis, on the forehead and stood.
The middle-aged woman appeared so frail in the dim light – just the skeleton of a person, barely clinging to existence – but Mira knew better. She may have been malnourished, but she had a strength of spirit and more than enough balls to tell a vampire off. That and her help in their escape had earned Mira’s respect. The old woman shot Mira a quizzical look, and after a few moments Mira realized she’d been asked a qu
