Chapter 46: Disaster

The night was going smoothly.

Marina and I were having a great time. She said she was lonely most of the time because she rarely had company. Although her human friends came by once in a while, she had lost touch with a lot of them because she couldn’t visit their homes, and they couldn’t do normal things together.

This was mostly because she didn’t want to leave Phil behind. He was even lonelier than she was, and to her it felt wrong.

Phil and the others hadn’t come up from what she called ‘the Den’ yet. It was the place where he met with all the vampires who visited him, and she never ventured down there for fear of seeing something she didn’t want to see.

So, we were alone for the longest time. She asked me about my story and I was reluctant to tell her most of it. My past was too dark and complicated to share it casually, so we focused on something else instead, something that intrigued her:

“How did you end up with them?”

“It’s a little complicated,” I began. “It was Felix w