After Dark (The Vampire Next Door Book 2) by Titus Rose

Author:Titus, Rose [Titus, Rose]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bathory Gate Press
Published: 2016-01-18T18:30:00+00:00

Her head fell upon his shoulder hours ago and he sat in silence, watching the stars in the velvet dark night sky and feeling her warmth as she slept.

“Laura,” he whispered, “Wake up.”

“W-what?” she yawned.

“You can’t stay out here all night. Come on. I’ll walk you home.”

There were a few hours still before the dawn drifted into the sky. He would do what he had originally intended to do: Search the area. It was his night to search the area and he did not do a good job of it. He had already wasted a lot of time.

He drove his Pontiac slowly, quietly ghosting through the back streets, watching for anything that looked out of place. Then he saw her from a distance. She was picking flowers in the dark. He had walked her home, but she came back outside again, on her own, to pick the flowers in the dark. At first he thought it was odd. But he knew it was good. She was at least learning how to live, learning how to lighten up a little, even when surrounded by her own darkness.

He pulled over by the small row of flowers that ran down the edge of the park. She said she was doing it just for the hell of it.

She was learning to live. To do things for the hell of it.

And they started talking again. But he had to leave; he had to do what he came out for. He shifted into drive and the car once again began its slow journey through dark alleys, back streets, dimly lit parking lots. And after another hour, the sky began to slowly brighten. And Rick grew tired. The gas gauge read at nearly Empty.

Like him, and all his kind, the large and powerful old car was constantly thirsting, constantly needing to stop, and refill.

He would have to fill it early tomorrow evening. None of the local gas stations were open. Only After Dark remained open, but soon its doors too would be locked, its people would sleep, and so would he.

Rick turned to head for the street that would bring him home. Then he heard the scream. A high pitched wail of pain and cold fear. And the sound of running feet.

“What the hell?” his foot slowly lifted off the accelerator and pressed down on the brake pedal. He looked around.

A kid dashed out of the alley, running fast—

“Hey! Hey kid.”

It was useless.

But then he realized if he had been quiet, then whatever, whoever, had chased the boy would have emerged from the alley. “Damn it,” he whispered.

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