Hi again

Hi again! Since a lot of you commented and said Muhahahaha, well, I'm kinda beginning to suspect that you don't really like Mischa. Well, it's okay. He is a bloodthirsty vampire, after all, albeit a hot one.

Chapter 6

She was eating breakfast in the kitchen. I could hear her; she was eating salmon. For breakfast.

Well, I didn't judge her. I was a vampire, so I didn't really think I had a right to comment on other peoples eating habits. He who is without sin, and all that.

I could smell her, too. Salmon and healing wounds and virus (she'd caught a cold in the hospital) and something I couldn't really define, that special smell I had come to think of as Kaia.

These last few days I had become very sensitive to that smell.

My room was dark. It wasn't like the sun killed me, but we had very sensitive eyes, we vampires. I didn't like the sun. It shone with too strong a light. The moon, on the other hand… Though one had to watch out for werewolves.

No, that wasn't a joke.

I was resting. It hade made me very tired, having to deal with a) a mad vamp and b) a suicide attempt. I deserved some rest.

And, I admitted to myself, I was avoiding Kaia.

The situation could not be more troublesome. I had taken in an orphan, a human, on a whim. Fine. People had thought I was a little strange, but then, they already did. Killing mad vamps for a living didn't exactly buy you popularity, even though it brought a lot of satisfaction. People thinking me strange I could handle.

But this…

This was so much worse.

I had heard of, and met, vampires living together. Vampires very often believed strongly in monogamy. Once they'd found a partner, that was it. There was even a special word for it. Lifemate.

But a vampire and a human, that was unheard of. It wasn't hidden, there wasn't a taboo, but it simply didn't work. Vampires were most of the time animals. Civilized animals, yes, but animals. Blood was our number one priority. Then came self preservation. Then, if that specific vampire had found a lifemate, sex.

Love, affection, was not something most vampires sought.

That was why I could not understand why this was happening.

I meant, she wasn't even that pretty. I had met vampires so incredibly beautiful it almost hurt to look at them. It was a weapon of ours, beauty. Like poisonous flowers.

Kaia looked like an ordinary human. I guessed she was attractive, by human standards. But to me, to us, she was almost plain. Soft, dark hair, black lashes, dark eyebrows. Athletic body.

Why, then?

I didn't know, but I knew this was a big, big problem. Huge. A vampire in love with a human… a human who hated our kind more than anything, nonetheless.

I was done with.

And, still, I couldn't stop my heart from beating faster when I smelled her. I couldn't stop myself from watching her sleep.

She had stopped eating, I noticed.

She stood up and left the kitchen. The quiet steps came closer. Stopped outside my door.

I felt my body stiffen.

What did she want? She didn't even speak, so I couldn't imagine what reason she could have to enter my room.

The door opened.

She was still pale from the blood loss, even though she now had a tiny bit of colour on her cheeks.

"Thank you." Almost, almost a whisper. She closed the door again and went to her room.

I closed my eyes and tried to get the image of her out of my head.

(Poor thing… I almost feel sorry for him.

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