The Blood Moon by Amber Riel (list of e readers txt) 📕

Christina smiled. “By this,” she answered, holding up a small, silver whistle.

“A whistle?”

Christina shook her head. She walked over to Kat. “Not just a whistle, but a dog whistle.”

A dog whistle? Kat knew how the sound hurt dogs’ ears and she didn’t want to hurt Champ. “No way.... That’ll hurt him.”

“It’ll only hurt him for a second and then.... He’ll be under your control....”

Kat listened to Christina talk. She was confused. She had no clue what was right from wrong. Christina was trying to persuade her.

“Think of it this way.... He’s the puppet and you’re the puppet master. You can make him dance like a puppet....” Christina held the whistle in front of Kat. She was waiting for Kat to grab the whistle. “So, what do you think?”

Kat just watched as the whistle swung back and forth in Christina’s hand. She was deciding on what she was going to choose.

Jean had woken up early because she had to go to the vet’s office and set everything up for the patients. She didn’t get ready yet so she was still in her pj’s. She walked down stairs and made her way through the dinning room and went into the kitchen.

She was amazed to see Lacy sitting at the table. Lacy was also in her pj’s. Lacy smiled at her. “Good morning,” she whispered.

Jean returned the smile. “Good morning,” she whispered back to Lacy. “Why are you up so early?”

“Well,” Lacy said, kind of rolling her eyes, “it’s mine and Champ’s turn to go work at the bookstore for the day....”

“Oh.”

“But, Champ is still sleeping.”

Jean kind of laughed.

“I’ll just go and he could meet me there.... He’s not a morning person and we have to get that store open before the humans get up.”

“Why’s that?”

“Well, we kind of know some vampires who like to read and they’re not really daylight people.”

“Oh.” Jean walked over to the coffee pot and picked it up. She carried it over the sink and started filling it up.

“Do you want some coffee, Lacy?”

“Yes please.”

The coffee pot filled up to eight cups and Jean poured the water into the coffee maker. When the machine had eight cups of water, she set the coffee pot on the machine and filled the filter with two scoops of coffee grains. “Are Kyle, Champ, Shawn, and Millie going to want some when they get up?”

“Well, the guys will make some if it’s okay with you.... But,” Lacy paused, “Millie never showed up last night.”

Jean could hear how Lacy was worried. She worried about Millie even though Millie hated her. She took a note pad and a pen and handed them to Lacy. “I could give you a ride into town and drop you off at the bookstore because I have to go to the vet’s office anyways and then later you and Champ can meet up with me at the vet’s office. If you two want?”

Lacy considered the thought for a moment. “Yea and if we see Millie we could try to get her to come with us.”

“Yea,” Jean agreed.

Champ walked into the bookstore. He seen Lacy sitting behind the desk and walked over to her. “So, Jean dropped you off?”

Lacy looked up at him. “Yep.” She looked at the computer screen and started playing a card game.

“Any customers yet?”

Lacy sighed. They didn’t count the vampires as customers so she knew he met the humans. It was the same every time. “Nope. Not yet.”

A little blonde, blue eyed boy walked in. Lacy and Champ looked over at him. He looked to be lost and that wasn’t good.

Lacy stopped playing on the computer, stood up, and walked over to him. She bent down to see eye to eye with the young child. “Where are your parents?” she asked, kind of worried.

The little boy looked at her and then to Champ. The two wolves could since fear from the child.

“It’s okay,” Lacy told him. She didn’t want him to be afraid. She wanted him to know that they weren’t going to harm him.

“We’re not going to hurt you.” Lacy could tell that the little boy was still scared and she was trying to calm him down. “Look, we’re not going to hurt you. Okay?”

The little boy didn’t answer. He was afraid to speak.

“We don’t want to hurt you,” Lacy told him for the third time. “We just want to help you.... Are you lost?”

The little boy looked like he was about to cry. He nodded. “My mommy....”

“Where is your mommy?”

“I don’t know.” The child started crying.

Lacy looked at Champ. Champ nodded to her. “I’ll stay here.”

“Okay.” Lacy turned her attention back to the boy. She took a swift sniff of his scent to help her find his mother. “I’m going to help you find her. Okay?”

The little boy nodded. He was trying to stop crying. Lacy grabbed the child’s hand and walked out of the store.

Lacy held the little boy’s hand as they walked around the town. She sniffed the air so she could find the same scent as the little boy’s. They walked to different stores until Lacy smelt the same scent. They walked into a little dollar store.

Lacy heard a woman in the distance calling a boy’s name. Before Lacy brought the boy to the woman, she wanted to make sure. “What’s your name?” she asked the child.

“Brian,” he answered.

Lacy smiled. “Come on.” She kept smelling the air and listened to the frantic cries for the little boy from a worried woman.

They hurried over to a crying, thirty-year-old, skinny, blonde, blue-eyed woman.

“MOMMY!!!” Brian cried. He ran over to the woman and wrapped his little arms around her.

The woman was relieved to see that her son was alright and hugged him in return. “Brian.... I’m glad to see that you’re okay.”

Brian looked over at Lacy and smiled.

Lacy smiled in return. She was glad to see that they had found his mother.

Brian’s mom looked over at Lacy. She knew that Lacy was one of the werewolves, like everyone else did. She was one of the people who hated and complained about them but now she realized that she was wrong and hated herself for that. “I didn’t like your kind because I thought that you all were evil, but after you had taken your time,” she started crying, “to help my son find me, let’s me to know that I was wrong.... And thank you.”

Lacy smiled. “No problem. Always glad to help.” She waved good bye to Brian and his mother and walked away. She felt good helping Brian look for his mother and she could tell that his mother hadn’t lost him purposely. She figured that he had wondered off himself.

Stina was still sleeping. She enjoyed sleeping in late. Everyone else enjoyed it when she slept because then she couldn’t do anything that was going to cause trouble for them. She never got mad if someone woke her but she didn’t fall back to sleep. She fell off the bed, which woke her up for good.

She looked at the alarm clock which said 2 O’ clock. That was the latest that she had ever woke up. She didn’t care. She looked out of the window and noticed the tops of different houses. She was use to seeing trees instead of houses and watched people walking around the neighborhood. She watched a small silver car drive by.

Some knocked on the door. She was to preoccupied with the new scenery that she didn’t hear the knock. There was another knock on the door but she still didn’t hear it. There was one more knock at the door.

“COME IN!” she finally called. She kept looking out of the window.

Shawn walked in. “What are you doing?” he asked.

Stina kept looking at the sight. “Shawn.... You have to see this.... Not only are there trees, but there are houses and people and cars.” She was amazed at everything she seen. It was like a whole another world to her.

Shawn walked over next to Stina and looked out of the window. He could see why she sounded so excited. He realized why his sister didn’t want to stay there. It would of killed Millie to be stuck in a house which she couldn’t leave because she would have a problem with all of the humans walking around. She would have been stuck on a leash because she’d be set on attacking, probably wearing a muzzle as well.

Wagner sat in the living room, watching TV. He had watched TV before but not at the cottage because they never had a TV. Jean’s house was so different from the cottage. The house showed that she wasn’t rich, but she made a good amount of money.

“Okay, Wagner,” Shawn said as he walked into the room.

"We’re waiting for Stina so we can walk into town. Okay?”

“Okay.” Wagner glanced at Shawn and then kept watching the TV.

Lacy was almost to the bookstore when she heard someone call her name. She stopped and turned to face the guy who was standing right behind her. She smiled at him.

“Can I ask you something?” Lee asked, walking closer to her.

“Um.... Yea. What?” Her eyes met his. She was in love with this human but was afraid to admit it to herself and everyone else.

He searched for the right things to say. He had a bad history of saying the wrong things. Lee wouldn’t do that purposely. Whenever he was around Lacy, he would always say the wrong things. He still regretted that comment which he said in October. “Would you....” He grabbed her craws. “Would you like to have dinner with me sometime?”

“As friends?” she asked. She knew he liked her because her wolf senses could sense that he had feelings for her the same way that she had feelings for him. She was just worried that something bad would happen.

“No.” He could tell in her eyes that she was worried. “As a date?”

Lacy swallowed. She wanted to say yes, but she couldn’t. “I....”

“She will,” a voice said, behind her.

Lacy grew wide-eyed and she knew who it was. She turned to face Champ, who was leaning against a light post. He was smiling. She went to protest but Champ shook his head.

“It’ll be good for you.” Champ walked over to them. He didn’t want Lacy to shut herself away from the world because she was afraid of taking chances.

“I don’t want to eat where there’s a lot of humans around.” Lacy held up her claws. “I don’t want them to see these,” she told them.

An idea popped into Champ’s head. “Maybe, we can ask Jean if Lee can eat with us one night this week.... I’m sure she won’t mind.”

“That sounds good,” Lee agreed.

“I don’t know, guys,” Lacy told them. She didn’t want to add an extra person at Jean’s house. “That won’t feel right.”

“Oh come on,” Champ told her. “I think that she won’t mind.”

“Okay, but I’ll cook so that way Jean doesn’t have worry about that.”

“That sounds good to me.”

“Me too,” Lee agreed.