Micah fanned his cards casually and nodded to the bucket. "I wondered how the fuck you planned on drinkin' that. I learned what happens the hard way."

"Got sick, did you?" That was a mistake they said most newbie vampires made. Hell, he'd made it himself. You could get the stuff down, but you couldn't keep it down. It was the same as when a kid swallowed something out of the cleaning cabinet. Your body knew it wasn't good for you and sent it back where it came ...