Chapter 34 It hadn’t gone as Feller had planned. After the ambush at the motel, they’d found only a few straggler vampires. They hadn’t located either the vampire named Jamie, who was the vector of this outbreak, or the Alpha vampire who had set up the ambush. Without them, the victory was incomplete. Nor had anyone spotted Clarkson since the sighting at the restaurant by Callendar and Jeffers. It was as if she’d disappeared—and yet, not long after that sighting, the vampire attacks had begun. Was Clarkson the cause of the outbreak, and not this Jamie? According to reports, the blonde vampire belonged to the Council of Vampires, the enforcers of the Rules, and this epidemic of new vampires was diametrically opposed to everything the Council stood for; still, it seemed like a strange coin

