Chapter 165: Sunny

Book Five: The Long Lost

I was out of bed and thundering down the stairs before I was awake enough to realize the person I felt in the back yard wasn't the one I had been waiting for.

Panting, I pulled open the inside door, peering through the screen into the dark beyond. The motion activated light flickered to life, casting a ghostly glow over Sunny's smiling face.

"Hi, Syd."

I pulled the door open, yawning as my disrupted sleep caught up to me. "Hey, Sunny. Come on in."

She hesitated before gesturing for me to join her outside instead. A moment of nerves thrilled through me. Not that I didn't trust my uncle's undead girlfriend. It's just she'd not so long ago fallen under the control of the evil vamp who made her, betraying us all. Mind you, she'd redeemed herself over and over since then, but I still felt jumpy.

The life I led, who could blame me?

I think she must have sensed something was wrong because her hands dropped and her expression stilled to calm. Scowling internal