HORROR THRILLERS-A Box Set of Horror Novels by Billie Sue Mosiman

Author:Billie Sue Mosiman [MOSIMAN, BILLIE SUE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-02-26T18:30:00+00:00

Charles closed the volume and rested it on his knees. The evidence was sketchy, but it did point toward the possibility there might be something to the old myth. If he'd only found this one piece of truth, he might have dismissed it as hyperbole, as fancy, but he kept turning up more and more information in his studies that claimed there were, in the past and, even today, real vampires. People who had died and were yet not dead. People who lived on as immortals.

He had brought it up to David on a recent visit. David had scoffed at first, thinking probably that his partner had finally lost his mind to the disease. When he'd seen Charles was serious, he rearranged his face and said quietly, "Is this what you believe?"

"I don't know what I believe," Charles had responded, tossing aside the book from which he'd quoted. Then he calmed himself and stared at David. "But what if it's true?"

David had hunched his shoulders as if to say, Well, what if it is?

Charles knew he'd get nowhere with David. David was a brilliant businessman, shrewd and quite competent, a diplomat with the foreign offices, a super salesman of their oil tankers, but he was no scientist. He lacked imagination. He wasn't open to anything he could not put his hands on and know was real. He hadn't an idea about cell regeneration or the damning effects the porphyria was having on Charles' body. He couldn't imagine how desperate a man could become when the world shunned him and he was shut off from view, hiding behind closed doors and drawn drapes. He didn't know that a man needed . . . hope. However small and illogical it might seem to others, Charles was grasping for the hope he might survive his debilitating and fatal disease. Some way. Any way. Even if it meant turning to old myths and beginning to believe they might hold the secret of life for him.

Because Charles could not personally get out and investigate this idea, he would need someone healthy, trained in the sciences, and motivated to search and seek out the truth in Charles' stead. He needed a man dedicated to the hunt. But where could he be found and how could he be motivated? Money would accomplish both tasks. Money had always been the best weapon of all. There was not a man on the planet he could not manipulate through money. He fervently believed that.

Charles let the book rest on his lap. He closed his eyes, and in his mind he played his favorite imaginary scene. He was taken and made into a vampire. He thought it might be painful, but he was prepared for that after years of living with pain. After his change, he lived forever, ruling over his growing global empire with all the ruthlessness that had brought him his great fortune. He had the strength for lovers again and left them strewn in his wake, begging for him.

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