I nodded and sighed, pulling my face from his hands. I took another sip of the gasoline disguised as alcohol and shuddered. Nope, I thought. Still not good.
"You know my parents were murdered when I was three," I said and watched as a flash of sadness marred his features before he schooled them again. He nodded at me to continue.
"I was placed with Bobby shortly after. I had no other family, and I couldn't be placed with humans for obvious reasons," I said, waving a hand at myself to indicate all of my half-vampire abnormalities. "That left Bobby. He hated me from the first second he laid eyes on me."
I took another sip of the drink and somehow it didn't burn quite as much. I had probably already killed the nerve endings in my throat. "Bobby wasn't abusive in the way a lot of parents ca
