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He groaned. Sage eyed him with concern. His eyes for a second seemed to glimmer and glow with a reddish tinge.
The moment he lifted his head, Sage was met with a horrible realization. Irving peered at her and suddenly the reddish tinge could no longer be denied. Fangs protruded from his mouth. . All of the tiny clues she had ignored before suddenly flashed through her mind, like a film reel. She shrieked, standing so suddenly from her chair, it toppled over. “H-how can this be possible?” she shouted in shock. “Your eyes… your teeth… YOU’RE A VAMPIRE!”
Sage staggered back. She felt like she was in the middle of an aberrant dream. Heads turned at her outburst. It all made sense now. The rare steak, the impossible age, his bizarre behavior, the inability to see his own reflection… “Of course I am,” Irving replied. He cocked his head at her in confusion. “That’s the whole point of this program. We’re the Fang Club.”
Still gaping, Sage said, “I-I didn’t even know vampires existed.” Irving’s crimson eyes blinked at her in astonishment. She could see he’d presumed she’d known, but she hadn’t had the slightest clue.
“Well, this is a bit awkward, isn’t it?” Irving pointed out.
Sage recalled what Irving’s brother had told him in the lobby of the funeral home: “I look forward to you making my brother a bit more human.” Then there were the fang girls. The reason they’d gathered at the funeral home was to see Irving, along with the other vampires. This entire time Sage had been participating in a matchmaking service catered to blood-sucking monsters.
“I have to go,” Sage declared. “No wonder your brother needed to pay me to go on dates with you.” Her heart was racing and every ounce of her being was telling her to run. She took one last look at the man she’d grown to like and then bolted for the exit as fast as she could.
“Sage, wait!” she heard him call after her, but she wasn’t going to stop. Irving was a creature that drank human blood to survive. It occurred to her that perhaps the only reason Irving had opened up to her was to gain her trust so he could suck her blood.
Having put herself at a significant distance from the restaurant, Sage called a taxi. If Irving was going to pursue her, he would have done so by now. Her heart ached as she sat in the back of the cab, hugging her coat tightly around her. Everything she’d known about the world had just been turned upside down. How could she have not seen the signs before?
This is the last thing I needed right before Mark’s funeral,Sage thought in despair. To think, she’d believed her husband’s death to be a significant shock, but this-- the existence of vampires--was beyond any shock she’d ever experienced.
