Chapter 93

Charlotte laughed so hard that tears sprang to her eyes. "And how, pray tell, do you plan to do that?"

"I'll find a way," I walked over to the chair and sat down at the small table. "Tell me, why did you kill Steven?"

"How very perceptive of you!" Charlotte said, clasping her hands together excitedly.

"Well, I was the one who killed him, actually," Garrett said as a smirk played on his lips.

"Yes, well, at my insistence, of course." Charlotte walked over to his side and ran her hand over his chest.

"Why?"

"Well, after I happened to find you in the alley with those thugs, you said that you were following a scent," Charlotte said, sitting on the chair across from me at the small table. "I knew it was blood, so I just put two and two together. The only time that humans crave blood is when they're pregnant with a dhampir child. It was quite easy to deduce, actually."

"You bitch," I said, realizing that it was becoming my favorite word for her. "You pretended to be my friend!"