#Chapter 182: Bleed

Fiona “I’m sorry but vampires? Fi—vampires are here? VAMPIRES?!” She woke up the baby. Shit. Lexi had been crying so. much. these past couple days. “Nina.” I closed my eyes and left them closed a moment. I was so tired. My friend clapped a hand over her mouth. “I’m so sorry, I’ll go get her.” I opened my eyes just in time to see that Nina had tears welling in hers. She jumped up and disappeared into the nursery to do as she promised and try to get the baby back down. We’d had the TV news on and the volume pretty low. I muted it completely now. But I couldn’t tear my eyes away from the screen yet. I watched with emotionless horror as they played footage of the battle… it was hardly a glimpse of it, really, captured from a very far distance. All that could be seen was what rose above the line of the buildings. And all that was, was vampires. Flying down from who-knows-where to assault my husband and our friends on the ground below. It was terrifying to watch. But fo