Allie was exhausted when she woke up. But that was normal for her lately. No matter how much she slept, it was never enough. She was always feeling tired and rung out. It was the blood loss, she knew. Liam needed too much of it and her body couldn’t keep up. That was why she’d risked robbing the blood bank, a despicable action to her mind. Blood banks were always desperately in short supply and needing more. Even considering stealing some of the precious blood they needed so badly had made her feel lower than low. But Liam needed the blood and she couldn’t supply what he needed. She was willing to die for the boy if necessary, but that would just leave him alone in a world that wouldn’t be friendly to a child vampire. She had no doubt they’d kill him, or at the very least lock him up and perform examinations and tests on him that would make what little life he had a misery.

These thoughts had Allie pushing herself up to sit in the bed and swing her legs off of it. She needed to see what he was up to and—

Allie’s thoughts fled, replaced with alarm as she realized she wasn’t in her own bed in the apartment she’d sublet four months ago. Her gaze slid around the cool blue room revealed by the sunlight splashing through the windows, memories suddenly rushing into her mind. She remembered everything that had happened right up until they’d squealed out of the plaza parking lot in the pizza delivery car at what must have been nearly one o’clock in the morning. Everything was blank after that.

She’d probably fainted again, Allie decided grimly. That was the most likely scenario. She’d fainted from lack of blood. She certainly didn’t think she could have just fallen asleep, not in the situation she’d been in. Fleeing one group of vampires in the company of another pair of them was hardly a sleep-inducing event. Being around vampires at all wasn’t. As far as Allie knew, all vampires were bad. Although, frankly, she’d never imagined there was more than one group. Learning otherwise was more than a little alarming. Especially when Liam was no longer with her.

Mouth tightening, Allie started to rise, but settled back to sit on the side of the bed again when the room began to spin. Damn, this weakness was a nuisance. Especially right now, when she needed to find Liam and figure out where they were and what to do next. Then she spotted the Go bags next to the bed.