Claire didn’t let my lack of responses sway her, apparently. She smiled and asked, “Where did you come from, Annette? From the human world, like Amelia? Is that where you’ve been all this time?”
The human world…?
“No, I –”
“You don’t need to know about her,” Jake said, just as Damien said, “That’s enough, Claire.”
Lowering her voice to a whisper, Claire asked me, “Did you know how much of a spoiled w***e your sister was?”
I reared back at once. “Excuse me?”
“I’ll take that as a no,” Claire said, laughing lightly. “But if you would like the full truth, I’d be happy to share it.”
My own anger was boiling hot now. “I don’t care who you are, you can’t talk about my family that way,” I snapped. “Now we are going to sit here in silence until the blood draw is through. One more word and I’
