Chapter 654

The others broke off in little knots, leaving Katelina and Jorick alone on the sidewalk. "Iwe can't drink from people," she whispered fiercely.

"Unless you're hoping for a Chihuahua, that's what you'll have to do," Jorick replied. "Come, little, one. I can enchant them. They'll never know you've been there."

She wanted to refuse, wanted to hold the moral high ground, but she was thirsty, and she could smell the blood all around them.

A bar two blocks down glowed with neon signs, orbited by a knot of smokers dressed to impress. "One of them?" Jorick asked.

"Don't make me pick!"

"Whether you choose or I choose will make no difference in the moral implications, Katelina. You have a fledgling of your own to teach. It's time you embraced all the aspects of immortality, otherwise you can't instruct someone else."

She looked past the crowd to a guy standing alone on his phone. "Him. The group would be hard to handle."

Jorick patted her shoulder. "Good instincts. Now come."