She's my kitten, and no one else's.

Licking Falls, Ohio, had its own set of standards. They were archaic at best.

Hi. Cat was just keeping me company until you came back.” He glanced in the direction she’d just disappeared to before returning his attention to me. “Fourteen hundred and thirty-one." I blinked. "What's that?" "The year I was born, which is not, as you'll note, yesterday.

How unconvincing. Try again.

I'm great as bait! All the vampires want to eat me!

Yes, but you are still only human.” I laughed, the sound of it drowned out by the crunch of rocks as the mountain continued to shudder as though in the throes of birth pangs. “So was Van Helsing, yet in every movie, he beat the vampire in the end. Never underestimate the power of humanity.

He tasted like sin made into wine: dark, heady, and impossible to resist.