Excerpt: Darkness' Welcome

Wincing when he slammed the phone, the bit of laughter that escaped proved how nervous she was, “Being difficult?”
“Yes.” he hissed standing and looking out the window, obviously needing to calm himself down some. “Corbin...he is someone that owes his life to the protection he was extended based on what Dana asked me. Sometimes I wonder if it was truly worth what he offered or if he was better off left for dead. He has never respected the authority. Almost as if he goes out of his way to make my life hell when I ask things of him which he agreed to when he came asking for help.”
“Oh.” she commented not sure what else to say to that. It was hard talking to him. Was hard to know how he felt about the things she was saying when he hardly reacted. The stitches began to itch and she could not help but rub at them to try and get rid of the sensation.
He took a seat next to her, taking her hand and gently pulling it away, “Can I see?”
Shaking her head in protest, she moved away from him a little, “I don't know how to talk to you at all. I'm just a pity case right now. You keep me here cause you think the police will come after me or that I would give you up if they pushed me enough and wanted a name, any name. You're keeping something from me. You don't show any emotion beyond anger and annoyance. I can't go back to my dorm. I can't finish my degree. I got some psycho with a ton of information on me cause he took it. Tell me why I should trust you to look at a wound I barely have enough memories to piece together what happened? And don't you dare try to put off that it was just a knife cut cause I felt that asshole bite me. What the hell do you think I am? I want you to tell me right now. And you been in my head and don't you try to tell me it's me going crazy.”
He took his hand away, “Simple answer? You're a vampire that has had her instincts and certain genes suppressed to make your body able to function as a human. Complicated answer? Go ask Dana.”