Doreen came and went with another tray of food later in the day which I didn't eat and there was no one there to force me that time. The sun was warm today, quite hot actually. By noon it was roasting so I had gone indoors to cool off for a while. I had already finished the book I was reading so I had started a second one. There was a knock and the door and I looked up, that was when I realised it was already getting dark. Zane came in before I could answer and I heard the family click of the lock.

"Zane," I said as he came in.

"Mmm," he replied.

"Where are we? In the world I mean."

He chuckled slightly.

"What?" I asked.

"Don't you think you should eat something first?"

I frowned.

"Do you really want to know?"

"Why do you think I keep asking?"

He smiled. "We're somewhere humans don't know about, but close enough to them so we can satisfy our appetites."

"What kind of an answer is that, it sounds like a riddle."

He was still smiling, "It's not a riddle. This land doesn't have a name; it's just land roaming with vampires."

"What country are we close to then?" I asked eager to have knowledge of some global positioning.

He laughed slightly again. "No signs of infection yet, I think you're going to be ok," he said getting up and ignoring my question.

When he left I changed into jeans and a t-shirt because it was getting cold, I then sat back on the bed to carry on reading, my legs outstretched and my back leaning against the headboard.

Doreen came in with dinner a bit later, leaving the food from lunch as well. She didn't say anything and neither did I, I just carried on reading. On the way out she opened the door and walked into Alec. I heard the collision and looked up. Doreen was blushing bright red and I smiled at her embarrassment.

"Sorry master Alec, I di..di…didn't see you," she stammered and then quickly rushed passed him out of the room.

"Why is she so scared of you? Does all your staff act like that?" I asked him as he closed the door behind him.

Alec smiled, "It's because they know I'm a vampire, I've never hurt the staff or drank from them, they are just generally scared, they probably have their conspiracy theories."

"Where do they stay?"

"A few levels down, don't worry, their rooms are large, they eat well, paid well, bla bla bla," his smile grew, then he frowned as he saw my full lunch and dinner plates but he didn't say anything this time, which surprised me.

I looked back down at my book and carried on reading. I heard him walking slowly towards me but I didn't look up. I wasn't concentrating on the book but on what he was doing. He must have known because he smirked. I looked up at him.

"So, we're in the middle of nowhere then."

The smirk was removed from his face, as he realised that Zane had told me where we were, his plan didn't go how he had wanted it to; bribery doesn't always work. He sat on the edge of the bed with his back to me. I put my book down on the table next to the bed.

He stayed silent. He was acting different, was he ok? I hesitated and then decided to crawl over to the edge of the bed where he was sitting. I hugged my knees to my chest on the edge instead of putting my feet on the floor like Alec.

"Are you ok?" I asked, looking at him, he was looking at the floor.

He struggled to speak. "You've cut yourself."

I scrunched my face up in confusion. I studied myself and found a small paper cut on my finger where I had turned the page of the book I was reading. I hadn't even noticed. Alec was facing me now. He slowly reached out and took my finger. I was shocked and didn't know what he was doing, so I just let him. He pulled my finger to his mouth and sucked the blood away looking into my eyes as he did so. I shivered. I must have looked horrified. My foot suddenly slipped from off the bed and my body jerked forward. My finger came out of his mouth sharply. It scratched something sharp, which I'm guessing was his tooth. I regained my balance and looked at my finger, which was now bleeding twice as much as it had before. Luckily the scratch wasn't deep.

"I'm sorry. I haven't …. drank for a while; I didn't think you'd be bleeding when I arrived." He disappeared to the bathroom and reappeared with a tissue.

I stayed silent, shocked, I think he really was a vampire, every time I saw him, something confirmed it.

"I wouldn't have hurt you," he said sitting back down next to me hesitantly incase I didn't want him to.

I looked up from nursing my wound and sighed, "It's ok."

He relaxed his muscles slightly. "I really wouldn't hurt you, you know."

"So you keep saying. But it's ok, really."

We were silent for a while.

I took the tissue off of my finger when the bleeding stopped and slowly lent back on the bed so I was parallel to my pillows, making sure I wouldn't hurt my wound, which was much better now. I watched Alec even though I could only see him from behind. I closed my eyes, tired from the heat of the sun. I woke slightly when something cold touched my face; I opened my eyes slightly to find nothing there, it was pitch black and I was under the covers of the bed. I closed my eyes and tiredness tugged on my eyelids and I fell back to sleep.