Domination cut cleanly through Michaels’ throat. Michaels’ eyes widened in surprise one last time before his eyeballs rolled into the back of his head and he collapsed onto the floor, blood leaking out of his throat and staining his pajamas. The stench of human blood made my mouth water, but instead of bending over to start drinking, I dropped Domination on the floor and stared at Michaels’ corpse in horror.
What had I done? I’d killed a man—an innocent man—in cold blood. I let my vampire side get the best of me. I hadn’t even been thinking when I killed him. I was just so upset from my fight with him that I didn’t even think twice about killing Michaels. The motion came to me as naturally as if I did this every day.
I didn’t scream, mostly because my vocal chords seemed to freeze in my
