Magic and Mischief at the Wayside Hotel

“Were you fixing the pipes or getting your pipe fixed in the little human’s apartment tonight?” Raphe asked.

Instead of walking down the front stairs, where he might encounter Amos and his grandparents, Pax had left Josie’s floor via the emergency staircase at the back of the building.

There, the surly vampire had ambushed him, jumping out from the shadow of the stairwell and tossing insinuations around like confetti.

Walking past Raphe, Pax opened the door to the basement, pretending to ignore him, but the vampire followed in his wake like a shadow. A shadow with a snarky attitude.