Shanna’s mouth twitched. “Not for food. Roman and all the good Vamps drink synthetic blood.”

“And you’re happy, married to a vampire?”

“Oh, yes. And I’m not alone.” With a grin, Shanna motioned toward the other women. “A lot of my friends here are married to Vamp men.”

Caitlyn had to admit they all looked happy. They were also very pretty. Apparently, vampires were drawn to beautiful women. Would the mystery man find her attractive? Would he even notice her? She groaned inwardly. She needed to stop thinking about him. But it was so much easier to think about a gorgeous man than to deal with this strange new reality that had broadsided her out of nowhere.

Vampires. Her brother-in-law was a vampire. And what were her nephew and niece? “I saw Constantine fly up to the hoop. Is he some kind of mini-vampire?”

Shanna laughed. “He’s a normal little boy. He eats and sleeps and goes to school.”

“And flies?”

“He doesn’t fly. He levitates.”

Of course. That was so much better. “Shanna, sweetie, that’s not normal.”

She waved a dismissive hand. “What is normal? We were never normal, not with our psychic abilities. Tino comes by his abilities in the normal way. He inherited them from his parents.”

“I didn’t think vampires could have children.” Caitlyn gritted her teeth. “But then I never bothered to learn much about vampires, ’cause I never thought they existed.”

Shanna gave her a wry look. “You’ll get used to it. My husband is a scientific genius, so he figured out a way for Vamp men to father children.”

“Great.” Hybrid children? Caitlyn wondered just how deep this rabbit hole went.

Shanna glanced sadly across the room. “Unfortunately, it’s impossible for a Vamp woman to carry a child.”

Caitlyn looked warily at the women. “Are you telling me there are vampires in this room?”



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