Read Bitter Blood (The Morganville Vampires #13)(21) online free by Rachel Caine
Author: Rachel Caine
"Shane's not in charge of what I do," she said. "But I won't lie. I didn't want to leave him here, either. So maybe there's a little bit of that in there."
"I-honey, I know you don't want to hear this again, but are you sure you're not plunging into something too quickly with him?"
It was a familiar subject, and Claire felt a white-hot stab of annoyance. Never thought of that, Mom. Wow, what insight! She wouldn't say it....
She'd rarely been sarcastic to her parents, but that didn't stop her from thinking it. Older people so often thought they'd been through everything, experienced everything...but it wasn't true. Few of them had ever lived in Morganville, for instance. Or apprenticed to a vampire with poor impulse control.
"I'm not," Claire said. She'd learned that short answers worked best; they made her sound adult and certain. Overexplaining only opened the door for more lectures. "I know you're concerned, Mom, but Shane's a really good guy."
"I know you wouldn't stay with him if he wasn't-you're a very smart girl. But it does concern me, Claire. And your father. You're just eighteen. You're too young to be thinking about spending a lifetime with someone. You've hardly even dated anyone else."
Claire was just about fed up with the You're too young litany. She'd heard it from the time she was old enough to understand the words. The format might change, but the song remained the same:...
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