Vampires At Heart by Unknown

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

Chapter 3

Prey woke abruptly. He knew at once

where he was, and what had happened.

They'd made love. Then they'd fallen

asleep, just as they always had. But he'd promised Rose a bath, she had no

clothing on, she'd get cold. It wasn't as if his body provided any warmth.

He propped himself up on one arm and

smiled at the peaceful repose he saw on the lined face of his lover.

"Rose," he whispered. "Time for your bath." She didn't stir. He touched her face. She was cold.

Too cold.

Prey knew at once she'd gone.

"Rose!"

Panic.

"You can't be dead! Don't leave me!"

Grief and pain, like nothing he'd ever

known in his long existence,

overwhelmed him. He couldn't lose her.

With a cry of animal passion, compelled by pure instinct, he extended his fangs and buried them in the wasted neck of

Rose's corpse.

Love, need, grief and desire, welled

within him. In that moment, if he could have, if there had been even the smallest spark of life, he'd have brought her back to be with him, among the undead. But

there was nothing. Not a trickle of fluid, not a flicker of warmth.

Rose was gone. Forever. And all he had

in his mouth was the wasted, fleshly

remains of the one person he'd ever

loved.

Prey released his bite and snarled his

agony at the empty room. In a moment

the sacred place where they'd cloistered themselves away for six blissful decades had become a crypt. His mind reeled

with the pain. It was too much.

Desperate to escape he did something he hadn't done for years. He transformed-shrinking in seconds into a poorly

defined shadow, the size of a bird.

Frantically the shape raced from room to room. Prey's blundering was deliberate.

He want

ed to hurt

himself. He hit walls, glanced off lights, tangled in curtains and flew into doors.

Eventually one particularly heavy

collision stunned him and he fell to the floor.

He had no idea how long he lay there.

Some time later he returned to

consciousness and, with it, some form o f sanity.

Back in human form and num

b with grief, Prey set about robotically performing a series of necessary tasks.

He washed Rose's body. He dressed her

in her

most beautiful gown. He laid her

tenderly on the bed. Then he found a let ter written some months ago and slipped out the front door under the cover of dark to place it inside the mail box for

tomorrow's post.

Everything was in order. He placed one

last kiss on Rose's cold forehead. Then he left without looking back. He

descended to the bottom level of the

house. There he opened a small dark

door to a flight of steps leading even

further downwards, disappearing into

pitch blackness. Prey entered without

hesitating. Closing the door behind him, he turned the key in the lock and stepped slowly down into the darkness.

The house was silent. Upstairs the

candles illuminating Rose's body

flickered, guttered, and went out.

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