Demon Blood (Vampire in the City Book 5) by Donna Ansari Read Free Book Online

is there anything else that you can remember?” Tammy asked me.
    I shook my head slowly. “No, that’s where it gets really confusing, and the next thing I knew, I woke up here.”
    Tammy started walking back into the house, and we all followed. “After we eat, I was thinking of going to the Magickal Well to talk to those guys. You should come with me, Em.”
    “You mean you want to investigate this?” I asked. “I’m not sure we can do anything about it, but sure, I’ll come with you.”
    “Amy? What about you?”
    “What about me, what?” Amy asked, taking a can of regular Coke out of the fridge. I noticed that throughout all of Tammy’s questioning, the teen had been very quiet, especially for her.
    “Don’t you want to come with us to talk to that coven?”
    “No, thanks.” She opened the can and took a long drink. “I have a calculus test tomorrow, so I’ll leave the Scooby Doo work to you guys.”

 
     
     
    Chapter Six
     
    After ingesting an almost inhuman amount of pizza, Tammy and I were ready to leave for the store. Or at least I thought we were ready.
    “I’m only telling you this because we’re best friends,” she said, “But you kind of look like crap.”
    “Thanks,” I said, frowning and reaching for my jacket.
    “No, I mean your hair is sort of frizzy and your skin looks a bit sallow. Are you feeling okay?”
    “Not really. Up until a few hours ago, I was a supernatural creature of the night, incapable of aging, breaking out, and having allergies. Plus I had flawless skin. I would say I’m actually feeling kind of awful right now.”
    “Sorry,” she said, grabbing her purse. “Maybe you should start wearing make-up.”
    While walking to the train, I felt myself start to breathe heavily in an attempt to keep up with Tammy’s quick pace.
    “Somehow, I am in worse shape now than when I became a vampire,” I complained.
    “Well, it’s like you were dead for the past six months,” Tammy said. “All your muscles are atrophied and weak.”
    “Right,” I said, pausing to catch my breath. When I looked around, I realized we were in front of the Starbucks. “I think I could actually use a coffee.”
    Finally, we were caffeinated and on the train to Manhattan.
    “Other than the things that suck, how do you feel about being human again?” Tammy asked.
    “I don’t think it’s quite sunk in yet.” When I had been human, I had both a job and boyfriend that were going nowhere. Now I only had a freelance job, and as for a boyfriend.... 
    “What am I going to do about Alex?” I spouted out.
    “That’s a good question. Do vampires and humans ever date?”
    I gave her a pathetic look. “Do you mean like Ethan and I are dating? Yes. Or do you mean like a normal relationship with possible cohabitation and marriage in the future? No.”
    “So what are you going to tell him?”
    I was torn between not wanting to think about it and really not wanting to think about it. “Maybe I can just avoid that talk for the next fifty or so years, and then I’ll be old and withered and it will be obvious I’m no longer a vampire, and he’ll still be incredibly hot.”
    Tammy rolled her eyes at me. “If you’re so miserable being human, just ask him to turn you into a vampire again.”
    It was a fairly obvious suggestion, but it still took me by surprise.
    The look of shock must have been obvious on my face, because Tammy said, “He would do it, wouldn’t he? Especially if it meant you guys could be together?”
    “I guess,” I started. “It’s just that when I became a vampire, it wasn’t by choice. I woke up a vampire with no idea of what I was or what had happened to me. Kind of like now, when you think about it. But now I have a choice of becoming a vampire or not, so I don’t want to rush into anything.” I sighed, staring into my almost-empty coffee cup to deliberately avoid looking at Tammy. “Besides, if I went into it like that, it would seem an awful like I was just