The Embrace of the Vampire

ving a nightmare. I have never seen my city from this height (at least not in real life – I’ve looked up

round, around debris of constructional residue from the day, but I didn’t care. My legs were s

to eat some food, it wasn’t going to stay inside me for much longer, but with shaky pa

asp

it looked brown against the dark sky. His features were angular and sharp, as if I reached out for him, the edges of his silhouette would cut me. His e

button shirt and a red blazer that just made his mouth look redder

k at him that way, no

my attitude unyielding. “Why did you bring me her

ide, and looked at me with

voice back under control. “I said tak

, which just made me even angrier. I closed my e

oking at me like I was some kind of ani

amed. “I’m ta

and more terrified than ever I turned around, to find him standing at the place where I was

tmare, Nevena, I tol

d. I really wa

si

razors – but that wasn’t what made me gasp and take three steps backwards. It was the two sharp white fangs tha

ng me directly in my eyes, his nose

never even had my first kiss and I most definitely have never been this close to a boy

my head, because I didn’t trust myself to speak again. I could understand everything, of course, but I wasn’t g

yeah, by now I was convinced I was having a nightmare about a very handsome vampire that

badly if he thought I was beautiful. Jessica – yes

or months,” said the vampire. “

from wherever to make sure I was l

poking holes through my soul. “I’m

out of it and step

know my name

slow and steady and… seductive? “I’ve been dr

my help

smirked his annoying grin. G

bro,” I said to him with more bravado th

y were building to hold the construction because I was sur

wasn’t sure that he was asking me specifically; it seeme

neck and fear gripped my thundering heart and yet there was another, a feeling unknown to me that woke up in the

who’s

sound of the voice that my neck almost s

rds me, his flashlight in my

ing here? I will

was not going to call the police on me for

tone pushed me backwards, and suddenl

open and letting out a scream like I’ve never produc