"I clearly warned you about dinner," I heard again, her tone like ice, before I managed to struggle up into a sitting position on the driveway.
"Didn't I?"
Oh please... that stupid dinner. I wasn't about to let her ruin my mood this morning over a dinner I was damn glad I missed.
How on earth would I have ever found out about Elias and what he really is if I had actually come running back home last night?
"Where were you?" she asked again, giving a subtle nod to signal her men to lift me up.
They yanked me to my feet. Honestly, they were my mother's private vampire guards, breaking out of their iron grip wasn't going to be easy unless I wanted to completely trash my morning, and I refused to let the manic thrill of what I’d just uncovered die off so easily.
"Somewhere I needed to b
