Blood Will Tell by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten - Proposal

Dan opened his mouth wide to allow the fangs to clear his lower lip. When they were fully extended, reaching a good inch past his incisors, he could not hide them. They curved slightly, just like --

Just like the tines of that fork that had so precisely fit the wounds in Carrie Wyman's neck.

But Brandy couldn't think about that now. Something had happened to Dan's eyes, too: they were red, more reflection than glow.

The part of Brandy's mind divorced from her immediate feelings diagnosed dilation, allowing light to reflect off the retina, the look of an animal caught in a car's headlights. Together with the fangs, it gave the man before her a surreal look.

If she had not felt the fangs emerge, Brandy might have thought them a theatrical appliance. But they were unquestionably real --

and that meant --

Helplessly overcome with relief, Brandy giggled.

"That was not among the reactions I was prepared for," Dan said. The fangs caused him to lisp slightly.

"I'm sorry." Brandy fought incipient hysteria. "This is a bit of a reversal on Beauty and the Beast!"

She heard relief in his familiar deep chuckle. Then he said, "I didn't know how else to prove it isn't a trick." He looked into her eyes, the eerie glow focused on her. "You're not frightened." It was a statement of fact.

"No," she realized. The hard knot of fear in her belly had melted in the face of irrefutable evidence. "You're not crazy," she said.

"As long as you're not some psycho killer, whatever else you are we can work through."

"Oh, God, I love you," he growled, started to reach for her, then paused to retract his fangs. They folded back up behind his upper teeth, into either side of his palate. At the same time, his eyes resumed their usual appearance.

When he kissed her, Brandy probed curiously with her tongue. The fangs lay covered but palpable on either side of his palate.

Dan broke the kiss in exasperation. "Could we have a little more romance and a little less investigation?"

But she had to ask, "Why didn't I ever notice that swelling before?"

"Once I've -- fed, they don't come down into striking position until the next full moon. Bran-dee," he protested as she tilted her head, trying to see into his mouth.

"Let me look," she insisted until he gave in. Everything appeared amazingly normal. He had all his teeth, but three lower molars and one upper one were crowned, and she saw a number of fillings. From any angle she tried, there was nothing visibly abnormal.

"Doesn't your dentist notice? What about x-rays?"

"Dental x-rays are taken from the sides. If the fangs show at all, it's just a shadow. Are you about finished?"

For answer she tried to give him a proper kiss, but had to interrupt her embrace to put her gun on the coffee table. Her fear was gone, their rapport returned. It wasn't what he called influence -- he wasn't experiencing anything except relief at her acceptance.

She could read his

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