Chapter 4
WE SPENT THE night in another cheap motel, and for the second night in a row, I quickly succumbed to exhaustion. I had planned to contact David when we got there, but the long day of driving, followed by battling a vampire and getting stabbed, did me in. Surprisingly, I felt no ill effects from using so much power on the vampire. Every time I thought about it, the whole thing seemed unreal. I had killed a mature vampire. Me. My power wasn’t strong enough yet to do the job on its own, but I could feel it growing every time I used it.
I awoke the next morning, sweating under a pile of blankets. I sat up and pushed them off me. “What the hell? Are you guys trying to smother me?”
Jordan was sitting on the other bed watching TV. “You did that glowing thing again, and we couldn’t ge
