Chapter 13: First Times

“So, like I said, I only know a little about being a werewolf. When did you first… you know…” said Alessandro Neroni, boss, billionaire, vampire.

Eliza thought about it. She’d been bitten when she was a freshman in high school. They’d thought it was a rabid dog. Flashlight tag with some of the other kids who lived near her uncle. There was a frantic trip to the doctor and rabies shots. Her mother had told her about the horror of what rabies shots *used to be*. No one had thought anything of it beyond that. Eliza was sure that she was the story of, “Oh, I knew this girl once who had to get rabies shots because she’d been bitten by a stray dog that we couldn’t find.”

No one knew.