Chapter Five
Maria grilled Darlene for a good twenty minutes about why she couldn’t come in. By the time Darlene hung up her phone, she felt confident that Maria didn’t believe one word out of her mouth. She debated texting Rebecca and saying hello, but she was unsure what to say. Hey, Rebecca, got attacked by a vampire and now I’m trying to solve the case of the missing werewolf. Lunch next week? In the end, she put her phone down and stared out the window of her bedroom for an hour, just thinking.
The thought of Vivica coming for her terrified her. But Darlene didn’t want to run. She felt as if she had been doing a lot of that lately. She ran from Austin when she found out the truth. She ran from all her past friends and most of her family. And she ran from her life, becoming basically
