Chapter 15

The brilliance of the newly installed equipment in the lab with its walls that were recently painted a white so bright as to be borderline blinding was like a slap in Rowan’s face as he strode into the room.  It took several seconds for his sensitive vampire eyes to adjust enough to locate the scientist he’d been fortunate enough to stumble upon in the alley a few months earlier.

Vampires moved with a silent stealth that allowed them to sneak up on their prey.  The fact that Jasper looked up from his microscope to greet him almost immediately upon his passing through the doorway gave Rowan cause for pause.  It was time to learn just what the man he’d rescued in that alley had turned into.  He showed signs of being a vampire, but also those of a werewolf. 

Over the centuries, rumors of vampire-werewolf hybrids had reached his ears, but they were simply rumor.  Or so he thought.  The stories told of the hybrids being b