Sluggo Snares Vampire by Rick R. Reed

Author:Rick R. Reed [Reed, Rick R.]
Language: nld
Format: epub
Tags: erotic MM, Romance MM
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Later, Sluggo awakened from a restless sleep, filled with shadowy images and strange beasts, unidentifiable, lurking around this or that corner, waiting to pounce.

He sat up in bed, looking down at the silver slats his mini blinds and the full moon outside conspired together to create. He wiped a hand across his damp face, wondering what it was that had awakened him so abruptly.

Then he heard it.

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Gong.

The sound was familiar but seemed to have no place in this restless landscape.

Gong. That chiming again.

And then Sluggo recognized the sound for what it was. He lay cautiously back down, thinking the noise had to be a fragment of dream lingering just past wakefulness. If there was such a thing as

“lucid dreaming,” then perhaps dream images, aural or not, could be a little slower in dispersing than his waking mind could dispel them.

Gong.

And finally Sluggo realized he should have become aware of the sound long before, but the sound was so out of place in his little night-quiet apartment that his mind didn’t accept it. When the gong chimed again, Sluggo arose, putting sheet and blanket warmed feet to a chilled floor, and shivered.

The sound was so familiar because he heard it most every night. It was the sound alerting him that he had an instant message, as part of System Up’s online service.

“God, did I forget to turn off the computer?” Sluggo wondered, groggy, thinking with dread of how he would function at the bank the next day on so little sleep.

As he headed toward his den, he knew with a certainty beyond doubt that he had shut things down before retiring. Some sort of glitch maybe? But what sort of glitch would turn the computer back on and sign him on to the service once more?

The door to the den was open. Inside, Sluggo could see the pale glow from his monitor screen, and the memories of TepesAllure rushed back. He paused at the door, afraid to go inside, for fear of what might be waiting. Perhaps, he thought, anxiously gnawing at 15

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a nail that was already bitten down to the quick, someone had broken in and was using his computer.

Perhaps it was TepesAllure himself. After all, he knew Sluggo’s name, knew what he looked like. Was it really such a stretch to imagine that he knew where Sluggo lived and had come to call?

Briefly, Sluggo considered tiptoeing back to the living room, where he could dial 911 and report an intruder.

And then what? What if the authorities came out to find a lonely man who had forgotten to shut off his computer before going to bed?

Sluggo stepped inside the room.

The den was empty.

He sat, feeling weak and dizzy, in front of the computer, where a message flickered on the screen.

“Don’t sleep, Sluggo, the night is winding down, faster and faster, like water going down the drain. Dawn approaches.”

“Who are you?”

“I am TepesAllure, master of the night.”

“I thought I was… Oh never mind. What’s going on here?

What do you want from me?” Sluggo’s eyelids burned.

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