Tuesday, April 2nd

The next night Patrick and Michael scrubbed a gory mess from the ballroom walls. As Patrick swished away the blood, he imagined he was wiping away all the roadblocks in his life; the vampires, his dependency on booze and pills, his hatred of Anthony. Everything was washed away until he was left with a sparkling clean life, the kind he could finally let Katelina in to.

"Where's the hickey from?" Michael asked sourly.

Without thinking, Patrick ...