Over her shoulder, Corban stared at me as if he suspected I'd somehow caused everything.
I wondered about that, too.
Something had made their ghost much worse, and I was the obvious place to look for a reason.
I left them to their preparations, packed my own bags, and hugged Amber again before I left.
She still smelled like vampire--but then so did Stefan and I.
STEFAN WAITED UNTIL WE WERE MOSTLY OUT OF SPOKANE, driving past the airport, before he said anything.
"Do you need me to drive?" "Nope," I answered.
I might be tired, but I didn't like anyone else to drive my Vanagon.
As soon as Zee and I put the Rabbit back together, the van was going back in the garage.
Besides ...
"I don't think I'll be sleeping again anytime in the next millennium.
How did he bite me twice without my knowing it?" "Some vampires can do that," Stefan said in the same sort of soothing voice a doctor uses to tell you that you have a terminal illness.
"It's not among my gifts--or any of our seethe except perhaps Wulfe." "He bit me twice.
That's worse than just once, right?" Silence followed my question.
Something wiggled in my front pocket.
I twitched, then realized what had happened.
I pulled my vibrating cell phone out without looking at the number.
"Yes?" Maybe I sounded abrupt, but I was scared and Stefan hadn't answered me.
There was a little silence, and Adam said, "What's wrong? Your fear woke me up." I blinked really fast, wishing I was home already.
Home with Adam instead of driving in the dark with a vampire.
"I'm sorry it bothered you." "A benefit of the pack bond," Adam told me.
Then, because he knew me, he said, "I'm Alpha, so I get things first.
No one else in the pack felt it.
What scared you?" "The ghost," I told him, then let out my breath in a gusty sigh.
"And the vampire." He coaxed the whole story out of me.
Then he sighed.
"Only you could go to Spokane and get bitten by the one vampire in the whole city." He didn't fool me.
For all the amusement in his voice, I could hear the anger, too.
But if he was pretending, I could pretend.
"That's pretty much what Stefan said.