“Uh-oh. Get ready to turn some humans tonight,” I joked. Maybell had just bought her first car. A used Suburban. It was only a matter of time before she killed someone.
“Let’s get you drinks while we wait,” I said.
Mamma and Daddy followed me to the living room with modern white furniture, too sterile for my taste, and murals of clouds and angels on the ceiling. They sort of gave me the heebies.
I poured Mamma some spiked sweet tea, and Daddy some wine.
“Mmmm…1980. I can almost taste the volcanic eruption,” Daddy said after a sip.
“That’s right. Mount Saint Helens,” I said. “You do have a nose.”
“Master taught me everything I know—”
“Honey.” Mamma elbowed Daddy.
What was it with Daddy’s maker? He’d left me this house, but no one wanted to talk about him.
“Why does everyone actall weird when Daddy’s maker is brought up?” I asked.
Roman sauntered into the room wearing an orange tuxedo.
I rolled my eyes.Wrong decade, buddy.
“Are we discussing Montgomery Stark?” Roman asked.
“No,” I said. “I’m asking them why no one wants to talk about Daddy’s maker.”
“Yeah, Stark,” Roman said. “I heard they just caught him. He’s down in the jail.”
“Roman!” Daddy barked. “You idiot. Shut your trap, or I will shut it for you.”
“Daddy?” I blinked. “What’s going on?”
Everyone went silent.
I huffed. “Okay. Fine. I’ll just ask the man myself. Where’s this jail?” I asked Roman.
“Do not—” Daddy growled at Roman.
“Daddy, Roman has sworn allegiance to me. Are you tellin’ him to break his vow?”
“Downstairs,” Roman barked out. “Your jail is downstairs.”
“Excuse me? You mean the wine cellar?” I said.
“The other downstairs,” Mamma said.
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
How did I, the vampire queen, have catacombs underneath my own house and not know about it? It made me wonder what other things were being kept from me.
“Roman,” I said as I followed him down a spiral staircase hidden under a trapdoor in the basement’s wine cellar, “I want names. I want to know who’s been keeping secrets and why?”
“Yes, my queen,” he said glumly.
We entered a long tunnel with dim lighting and pools of shallow water. To each side were sets of bars.
What is this place?I mean, I knew it was a jail, but what was it doing here?
