Chapter Twelve
Mina left the room first, checking the time on Abraham’s golden pocket watch and barking something about needing to start the breakfast. She swept out of the room in a violent flurry, taking with her a certain level of anxiety. Yet, with Abraham left behind, there remained an air of fear about our little company.
He was frightened. He wouldn’t do anything that Jonathan didn’t want him to do, but that didn’t mean that his fear wasn’t infectious. Even Jonathan was affected by it, if I were judging from the way that he talked Abraham down with promises that, if all this worked according to plan, then they would all go down in history as the first to prove that a vampire could be tamed. When the time was right, when I was sufficiently civilized by them, they could take me to t
