Monsters Within by Victoria Knight

Author:Victoria Knight [Knight, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Laudanum House
Published: 2015-06-04T05:00:00+00:00

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The details of his family’s history were rather boring as far as vampire history went. Still, he told that part of his story as well as he could. He would catch himself getting distracted from time to time, impressed with how calm Nikki seemed. He could smell slight twinges of fear coming off of her, but it was nothing compared to what he was used to while in the presence of humans who knew what he really was. He wondered what sort of demons this girl had in her past to make her so relaxed in this situation.

“We lived in Romania for about two hundred years, living our lives the way you’d expect. It’s not at all like the movies make us out to be, though. Wedid kill people and we even purposefully turned some, but it was usually criminals.”

“What do you mean byturned?” Nikki asked.

“Sometimes, rather than kill a human, we decide to turn them. We simply bite them, infecting them. They then become vampires, too.”

“Does that automatically make them a part of your family?”

“No,” Saul said. “But they will forever be loyal to whichever family turned them. It doesn’t matter anyway because several hundred years ago, it was decided that there could be no more vampire families. That meant that we could no longer turn humans. Turning humans means that they have a chance to go on, live forever, and have families of their own. Around 1500 or so, it was decided among the larger clans that we were starting to have something of a population problem. Of course, if our numbers got too big, we’d become common knowledge to mortals.”

“How many families were there?”

“There were thirty families, the Bentons included. But there were also rogue vampires that never really settled down. In total, it was estimated that there were nearly nine thousand vampires living worldwide. And like I said, that was in the early 1500s. It was also suggested that we scatter—that we break up. There were too many of us clustered together. Romania, parts of Russia, and South America had huge populations. So when the families scattered, the Bentons ended up in the land that would later be called the United States.”

“So who was it that made all of these decisions?” Nikki asked. She was sipping on her wine and reclining back on the opposite end of the couch as if she were having a normal conversation with one of her friends. It unnerved Saul slightly.

“What do you mean?”

“I mean, who decided that there were too many vampires and that you had to stop turning people and scatter over the ends of the earth? Do vampires have a President or something?”

“No,” Saul said with a laugh. “There is a group that is called The Guard. I will tell you that when it comes to The Guard, I am not allowed to tell you much. It’s just a rule. But it is their responsibility to ensure that creatures such as vampires don’t do anything to threaten the human population of the world.

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