Chapter 615: Vampires In Peril

Gram and Shenka were in the kitchen when I stormed into the house, magic weaving around the dishes, cleaning up the mess from the party. Sassafras hissed at me as I stomped past him, barely missing his tail with my toes. He leaped onto the table to glare at me as I came to a jarring halt.

"Sebastian isn't clan leader anymore." Blurting random troubles was apparently my specialty.

Shenka seemed surprised, but Gram didn't. In fact, she looked a little guilty before her wrinkled face fell into a frown.

"Tell me you didn't keep this from me." Yeah, my anger button was on a hair trigger. Had been pushed. And pushed. And pushed-

"I knew." At least she didn't try to deny it. Even so, I vibrated with the need to shake her.

"And you thought it was a good idea to keep this little tidbit to yourself." Cold, Syd. But, well, damn it.

"There's nothing you can do," Gram said, faded blue eyes empty and flat. "And you had enough on your plate. Still do."

That kind of crap was not going to fly wi