Chapter 6I was out of options. Connor thought Iwas hunting vampires again. My student was a vampire hunter now. Shewas also Ruben’s daughter. I couldn’t turn to Joel because he waswith Aspen now, and I’d endangered her enough for one lifetime.
I didn’t have a lot of people left inmy life. My track record was better than it had been before: I’dgone from having no one to having a bunch of people. But when it camedown to me being stuck, I still didn’t have a lot of people I couldrely on. When you came down to it, not much had changed.
There was only one person who alwaysended up being uninvolved. He didn’t care much about anything. Andhe was awake during the day, immune to sunlight like any regularhuman.
I called Carl.
“What do you want?” he asked whenhe answered on the second ring.
“Tha
