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Chapter Eighteen

The only other vampire I knew - outside of my newly anointed son - had led me to the world&039;s creepiest man, which cost my son two years of his life As shitty as that sounded, a naleaned, which was more than I started with

The only other isley Fulcrum, a beast of a man in more ways than one He had an office a block or two from the hospital, across the street fro past now The leae County housewives everywhere

I so into the parking lot of Kingsley&039;s plush, red-brick office building, which brought to mind the last tisley&039;s office, scaring off a wife killer that Kingsley had been set to represent Exactly I&039;d never been sley had dropped the piece of shit Unfortunately for the killer, I had gotten a very strong psychic hit from him I kneithout a doubt, that he had killed his wife Noas on h with my threat to make sure that he spent a lifetime in prison

But that was for another time For now, I had a son to save

From what? I asked myself Fro death?

No, I answered Fro blood Fro his sanity

It was mid-day and I was at my weakest and frailest I also felt vulnerable and clulass doors, blinking and waiting forelse I had conde the sun

My son would never again go to the beach, never again go on a field trip with his class, never again play Frisbee in the park Granted, he never played Frisbee in the park, anyway, but that possibility had been reht Only for now There is an answer There has to be an answer

I s felt unusually heavy, that each step was an effort, that I did not belong with the day dwellers

A tallan outdated blue blazer smiled at me sadly as I boarded the elevator He asked what floor and I noticed ere going to the saether, I touched my brow and winced Despite h There ht have been a small area near my hairline where I had nored the pain, knowing it would go away in a few hours

We rode the elevator in silence I are of theme I hated to be watched and self-consciouslylike hell he would look away, but too weak to do anything other than shrink away like a frightened puppy

"Pardonin front of sley&039;s offices "Wrong floor"

The elevator doors opened immediately, and he stepped out As he did so, he turned and looked ata bow tie I hadn&039;t noticed the bow tie before His age was indeter that shocked the hell out of me

He smiled

The elevator doors closed and I headed up to see Kingsley

Chapter Nineteen

Like I said, the last tisley&039;s office like a mad woman

Or a desperate mom

This tisley finished up with a client Oh, I was still desperate I was still driven It&039;s just that I had eased up on the panic button A few days ago, when I had stormed in here, h I was faced with a whole new dile less than what I am now, my son, I kneould be dead He would have fulfilled his lifeout early, apparently, and the rest of us would have been left to pick up the pieces of our own lives, if that was even possible

There were a lot of unanswered questions The use of the e, and just so daolden coin hanging fro, at best

And as I working so hard for? To ensure that s stood, he would survive and keep surviving forever Wasn&039;t that a good thing? And how did I know that he would stop growing? Maybe he would continue to grow Maybe he would reach adulthood Maybe he would thank me every day for the rest of his life, for all eternity, for sparing hiifts, too Knowinghi had me confused Jesus, uidance, I could walk hiuide hirow into his adult body

Maybe

Or maybe not

I didn&039;t know; I knew so little

Shit

A few sley&039;s office door opened and out came a familiar client The same client I had seen just days earlier The sa his wife to death in her sleep The same coward The sa down

It was no threat

And here he was Coain

We locked eyes and I think we both gasped My stoht of the bastard Hesound and took a step backinto Kingsley, as standing behind hisley looked surprised, too He also looked a little sheepish and esley quickly stepped between us, and actually escorted the bastard out of his office A moment later, my olf friend returned, all six foot, six inches of hiestured toward his office

"Let&039;s talk," he said

Nuh his open door

He followed behind, shutting the door

"Have a seat," he said

Chapter Twenty

I did as I was told, still too stunned to speak

Kingsley moved around his office with an ease and speed uncommon for a man his size He sat in his executive chair and studiedI could not look into his eyes

"Well, I suppose I should thank you for not playing Whack-A-Mole with my client&039;s head," he finally said, and I could hear the gentle hu to an inadvertent joke he&039;d made the other day