CHAPTER 5James knocked on the office door. It was a spare room in the DCPC, two levels above the basement.
“Enter.”
He opened it. “We need to talk, Annette.”
Annette took her feet off the desk and stopped the movie—Peppermint, by the sounds of it—playing on her laptop. “We have a problem?” She put her hand to her thigh, where she hid a silver blade.
James tilted his head out of the office. “I’m hungry.”
She pulled out her phone and quickly texted someone. “Let’s go then.”
James followed her to a private room within a nearby restaurant. The moment he stepped into the room, he nodded to the group of grim-looking people gathered around the table.
“So,” said Annette. “The sister is back to being a vampire?”
James nodded. The people at this table were all vampire hunters, and Annette wa
