Chapter 29

Joe was about to leave the room when he saw the keycard on the nightstand, not the keycard for her room door but the golden keycard for the other door; the keycard from his dreams and the door that led to the lifeboats. Suddenly the casual world of vampires and other magical creatures transformed into what it really was; terrifying.

He remembered the wolf eyes of Clayton and Diane and Tank: the one punch machine gun that knocked out a world champion. He remembered the beauty and utter seduction of Maria and how he had used some sort of white magic to blast her off of him, she wasn't dead he convinced himself and she would be looking for him. And then he remembered the vampire orgy room he was standing in last night and all the people being fed on and the body he tripped over, it all came rushing back to him.