Chapter Excerpt...
By the time Simon had arrived home it was raining heavily and he was absolutely drenched. "I'm home!" He called from the door as he kicked his soaked trainers off. No answer. "Hello?" Again, there was no answer. "Mom? Rebecca?" He called.
"Simon?" It was his mother's voice, with his vampiric hearing he could tell she was upset, "I'm in your room." If Simon's heart had still been beating then, it would've stopped. Slowly Simon walked up his hallway and turned when he got to his door. The doorknob seemed to make echoes in the silence as he turned it. Simon's mother was slumped over his bed, for a moment Simon relaxed but then he saw what she was holding. A small glass bottle, filled with dark red liquid too think to be any kind of normal liquid. Simon froze halfway in the doorway. Oh no.