Blood Day by J.L. Murray

Author:J.L. Murray [Murray, J.L.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Horror | Vampires
Publisher: Hellzapoppin Press
Published: 2015-11-29T05:00:00+00:00

Nineteen

They met in a dark alley, on the darkest night Sia could remember. Not just because the blackness seemed to seep into the streetlights and wrap around the bars, muting their mediocre rock music. The first time Sia saw Joshua's face she had a gun in her hand. And her husband was gasping for breath at her feet.

She was shaking as she stared at Collin. He was shiny with blood and he was moving his mouth like a fish stranded on the beach. His small eyes were wide with surprise as he looked up at her. Fear. Fear for his life, but also he feared her. He. Feared. Her.

Sia knelt down next to him.

“You thought you had power over me,” she said. “But you were wrong. You will always be nothing to me.” She touched her throat. She could still feel his fingers there, digging into the soft flesh at her neck, squeezing slowly, watching her eyes as she gasped for air, fumbled in her bag.

When she shot him, he had screamed like a child. And then he hadn't been able to make any sounds at all.

“You'll never hurt me again,” said Sia. And then she did the oddest thing. She smiled. She couldn't remember the last time she smiled, but she was doing it now. And what's more, she felt happy, truly happy to see her tormentor bleeding out in a dirty alley.

“Are you going to finish him?” said a voice.

Sia started, turning quickly on her knees, falling back.

He was tall. So tall that he seemed a giant at first. He wore an old fashioned hat and a black cloak, like Jack the Ripper just coming from the opera.

“I...” Sia stammered, backing away.

“Don't leave that,” said the man. He walked over, closing the distance in a few steps on his long legs. He crouched down and picked something up and held it out to her. Her gun. Sia looked at his face then. He was smiling at her. Uncertain, she reached out and let him place the gun in her hand.

“Thank you,” she said softly.

“They have so many ways to catch you these days,” said the man. “You're not even wearing gloves.”

“I didn't mean to kill him,” she said.

“You didn't kill him,” he said, nodding to Collin. “He's still alive.” He stood and offered her a hand. She realized she was sitting on the ground where she had fallen. It suddenly occurred to her how vile it smelled in the alley. Rotten Chinese food and piss and old grease. His hands were warm and dry and large, and when Sia was standing again, she didn't let go. His soft cloak brushed against her, and she wished he would wrap her up in it.

“Do you want him to live?” said the man, his voice barely more than a whisper. He leaned his head down and she could see the glimmer of his dark eyes. He wasn't smiling, but she felt it there, just below the surface.

“What?” said Sia, confused. “I have to call someone, I think.

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