The next day, true to my word, I took Jase to the Disneyland theme park, leaving Leila to rest in the hotel, but not before I made her promise to keep the door locked and her cell phone close to her at all times. Leila thought that I was being completely ridiculous, but agreed, nevertheless.

In the park, I rented a stroller. I laughed at the private joke: a vampire renting a stroller for his dhampir son in Disneyland. You just can't write these things. As I pushed him through ...