"I'm sorry, what?"
Axel stared at Kinsey like he had misheard her, even though he knew he hadn't. His brows pulled together and his lips parted slightly, stuck halfway between confusion and disbelief.
"You're a vampire." She repeated it calmly and casually. She said it like it was obvious, like she had just pointed out the color of the sky.
Axel blinked once. Then twice. Then he let out a short sound that almost escaped his mouth before he could stop it. It wasn't a laugh. More like a snort.
Kinsey tilted her head. "What's funny?" she asked.
That snapped him back. Axel straightened a little and shook his head.
"Sorry," he said quickly. "That just caught me off guard."
He couldn't exactly tell her that there was an artificial intelligence inside his head losing its mind right now. Inside him, Aurora was having a field day of laughter.
