My mouth tasted like tobacco and horse s**t. I was lying on my back at the floor of a moving vehicle. I kept my eyes closed and flashbacked to everything that had happened between the time I found the vampire in my room at the bed and breakfast, to the last moments with my mother—or Elizabeth—with the speed of light. The phrase “cluster f**k” applied to the style of my life perfectly. Yeah, I really, desperately wanted a boring life.
The roar of the vehicle"s engine was so loud, I couldn"t determine how many were inside with me, only the impression that it was a very big vehicle. I opened my eyes and found myself at the very back of a bus, lying on the aisle floor.
I was also the sole focus of several soldiers with weapons aimed at me.
Two sat on the back-row seat near my feet, while th
