Free Thirst [All-American Vampires 2] (Siren Publishing Classic) by Bree Younger

finding her sister.
    “We can head out tomorrow night.”
    “I’m working tomorrow.”
    “You were. I’ve made arrangements for you to have the next week off. There were five human bloodslaves and one werewolf female rescued. The humans are in a private halfway house in Hattiesburg. The werewolf is with the Piney Woods pack. I talked to Ricardo Diaz, the Alpha, and he’s agreed to let you speak to her tomorrow night. After that we’ll head up to Hattiesburg. We’ll spend the day there and speak with the rest of the women. If that doesn’t pan out, we can go on to Jackson, where Gia lives.”
    “Sounds like you have everything planned out.”
    “I’ve been working out all the details the last couple of nights. We’ll be gone at least three or four nights, much longer if we actually locate Cassidy.”
    He studied her as she took it all in. He knew he had been a little high handed with everything, and she’d looked annoyed when he’d told her he’d already made the plans for her to be off work. But the thought of possibly finding her sister had kept her from arguing with him.
    “Why are you doing all this for me?”
    “I told you, I think you have information that we would find valuable.”
    “I know, but still it seems like you’re going above and beyond what you would need to do. I’d have probably given you whatever information you wanted in exchange for knowing whether or not my sister was on that list.”
    He noted the suspicious way she was eyeing him. “Let me ask you a question. Why didn’t you just go to Quinn or Ty Buchanan in the first place and tell them your story? Why try to sneak around and risk getting caught?”
    “I wasn’t sure they would help me. I couldn’t take the chance that they might turn me down and throw me out of the casino.”
    “That’s what I figured. You don’t really understand a lot about the Buchanans if you really thought that. They want to help. All you had to do was go to them, and they would have done anything they could to find your sister. And that is why I’m helping you now. Once we knew your story, we had to help.”
    She studied his face as though seeking for the truth in what he was saying. At last she nodded. “Okay. I guess it’s just hard for me to know who to trust these days. I’ve had kind of a rough year.” She grimaced.
    He allowed himself a small smile. “Yeah. So I understand. You seem to have come though okay, though. There aren’t a lot of people who can make it through the change with their sanity intact.”
    “I knew I had to help Cass. Without that”—she shook her head—“I honestly don’t know what would have happened to me. This is certainly not what I expected my life to be like. Just learning how to survive as a vampire was hard enough.”
    “How did you manage? You said you escaped from the men who changed you, but you had no resources. I can’t imagine how difficult it would have been.” He couldn’t completely contain his curiosity about her.
    “I was scared. Really scared. But I was still pretty close to Atlanta. After I got away, I managed to make it back to my home, hiking and hitching rides. As soon as I arrived back at the house, I packed up whatever I thought I might need, grabbed my bankbook and other important papers so I’d have access to my money, and got the hell out of there.”
    “You were afraid they’d come looking for you?”
    She nodded. “I wasn’t sure if they’d just stumbled on us by accident or if they’d been watching us. I thought it would be safer if I just disappeared for a while. I called the neighbors and told them that a relative of ours had invited us to visit her in California. They agreed to watch the house for me. Then I cleared out, planning on finding somewhere to hole up until I could get some kind of handle on what I’d become. I knew I had to figure out how to survive before I could find Cassidy.”
    Hawk felt his admiration for her grow and with it his attraction to