Later, at the Sully House
JR glanced at Thomas, motioning the vampire to keep his mouth shut for the moment, and moved to answer his father's question.
"Actually, no." He told his father. "That's the reason he's still alive. Elyssa was attacked by a Manticore thing, like the ones that Jake killed the other day only a good bit larger. He kept himself between her and it until I got there and it took the three of us to kill it." JR still hated the idea that he owed the Vampire anything, but he did and he wouldn't deny it. "If not for him, Elyssa and the babies would be dead."