Kate and Bod's search for a hotel that was fancy but not way out of their league had led them to the Inn at Henderson's Wharf in Baltimore. The room appealed to Kate, and the view of the harbor was amazing, so she thought it had been a fine choice ( Read more... )

Friday had been pretty spectacularly bad, and the less said about it the better. Saturday, Kate had just laid low and recuperated. And today, today was just one of those days she had to get off the island. It was just a necessity, being outside in the normal world. Not getting yelled at by vampires, not singing things that were better kept silent ( Read more... )

( Kate had been a regular ray of sunshine at work yesterday. Really. )

It was job interview time! And Kate was ready. She felt she looked the part, and acted the part. Slinking around corners, all confidence and alertness and spy...ness ( Read more... )

Kate suspected that she was probably never going to stop hearing about how she’d brought her boyfriend to ballet class with her.

Her instructor was like that. The lady was fond of teasing.

But other than that, it had been a pretty normal class, and by now, Kate really didn’t care about any of that. She had an insane ice cream thing in front of ( Read more... )

( Barely half an hour later, they were sitting in a hospital waiting room. )