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“Random people I definitely do not know.” She wrinkled her nose. “Why do you think people sent me? Are you being hunted?” She gasped, turning toward me. “Oh! Is it the mob? Or...or an undead army? I’ve always wanted to battle necro—”
“No. I am a vamp-i-re.”
“Mhmm. And you think other vampires sent me? To do what? Be a snack?”
“To convince me to—” To seek a mate. To let the only true master have her way. Love, and the destruction she brings. Only love wasn’t real and I could bring enough destruction on my own. “Did they put you up to this? Are they trying to make us...a couple? ”
She scoffed. “I don’t know a ‘they.’ I don’t believe in ‘couples’. And I don’t let people put me up to things. Now are we going to not eat or what? I’m starving.”
“What’s your name? If you’re so innocent—”
She held up a finger. “Never said I was innocent, sir. Definitely not that. But the crime you’re accusing me of is pathetic. I’m a true villain, thank you. Show a little respect.”
“You...are?”
“I am. The truest.”
“Do you mean...because you work for the IRS? It is a nefarious organization, I’ll admit—”
“No. Not that.”
“Then what?”
“I...dabble.”
“In what?”
“Name’s Kat.” She offered her hand and I kissed it, not because I wanted to, but because of some wicked compulsion to have my lips closer to her veins. She stared at me, biting her pierced bottom lip. “Damn.”
“Damning is one of my favorite pastimes. Do you damn?”
“Exclusively.”
I shivered. Then put the car into gear and didn’t say another word until we were at my favorite cemetery.
I sat there, waiting to see if this Kat would demand to be taken back to the LoveBubble headquarters. But she unbuckled. “Love graveyards. Brilliant choice.”
“You...do?”
“I don’t think anyone’s ever taken me on a daytime romp.” She side-eyed me. “A little romantic for a first date. But...” she shrugged.
I led the way along the cobblestone path, perusing the markers of pathetic humans who died for no reason. A cough here, a fever there. No one in Cedarburg, Wisconsin ever died of anything interesting. But at least they were dead. Dying was the most interesting thing most of them had ever managed to do.
“Look at this one,” Kat said. “It’s fresh.”
In truth, the dirt had just been turned and laid to rest on top of a decaying body. “This one’s one of mine,” I said. Now you should know better. Because it’s one thing for me to say I’m a vampire. It’s another thing for someone to realize I quite literally sink my fangs into the necks of strangers and drain them of their life forces.
She glanced at me, then back down at the mound. “Was it...hard?”
“He was pretty willing. Makes the drain easier. And the turning is always more gentle if they go down easy at the end. But he’s not got a lot of power. Will be a lower servant, I think.”
She shook her head in disbelief. “How long does it take?”
“Full moon will do it. Sometimes it takes three. If they’re really powerful, a few years sometimes. Decades. Centuries. But those are rare.”
“So you’re like...really really really old.”
“Don’t be rude.”
