Chapter Eight
The Call of the Wild
I fell asleep for a few hours and woke up feeling completely refreshed. I seemed to need less sleep since my transformation. Since I didn’t have much time before I had to pick up the girls from school, I stayed at home in the shadows with the air conditioner on full blast and the blinds pulled down. I began to loathe the heat and brightness of the sun, especially when it shines down so unmercifully at midday. I tried to ignore the craving for blood that was building up within me.
Since things felt a little awkward with my husband before he left for work, I arranged for Eric’s parents to watch the kids this evening so we could go out on a date and discuss what happened at the motel and do it again if he was in the mood. Perhaps my husband would feel mor
