BLOOD, a vampire story

f parked cars. Max Blake could hear it growling; when he focused his vampire vision, he could see flashes of it as it slunk along, stalking a warm and fleshy prey. People ran, l

's father

t was

human beast— the blood sucking human that everybody had been blaming for all the brutal deaths in Des Pontonniers, a small Strasbourg t

out there watching. Gloating. The Alpha Vampire, the vampire that

f. Then she gave another pitying look at the pale human, the folds of her white and black scarf brushing against her chin. No one was cheering the death of the human, least of all h

safe from his t

the very first night Max had transformed. Ryan had rescued Max and told him about the hunters. It had been a terrible shock when Max had discovered that

ed the passenger door and Miley got in. Obviously, he was going to drive her car home, and Miley's mother would take their LEXUS back to their house. As Mr. Evelyn shut the doo

busted,” M

is morning. Max hadn't even know that it was her birthday. Turned out that she hate celebrating her birthday at school. Max hadn't know Miley was sixteen, a year younger than the other kids in thei

ay had been magical. Once darkness had fallen, she'd said she never wanted it to

, a thrill rushing through him even now, as his mom g

ck was ramrod straight, her shoulders raised. Everything about her spoke of h

that he'd forgotten all about it. Just as he'd been forgetting about school, too. He was flunking chemistry and

e up to the street, it started to rain and she flipped on the windshield wipers. One of the wipers sqeauled against the glass. They needed to be replace

a mixed blessing. Sometimes you'd hea

ple would be relieved that the blood sucking human had been killed, but tonight, the freakiness

e car, and gave him a look. Before he could say anything, she got out of the car. The rain poured down on him heavily as he got out too. Walking quickly, he lo