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walking around at night, defenseless…
    No, no, no…no one asks to be
attacked and eaten by a creature of a nightmare. She couldn’t have left her to fend for herself. It
wasn’t like she stalked around the city with a cape, rescuing
damsels in distress and little old ladies from the riff-raff scum
of the earth. But she would be damned if she would let it happen
right in front of her nose.
    Not the smartest or safest
way to live.
    A flash of how fast he’d moved upon her
slipped through her mind. He could have killed her, had her drained
and been off hunting down Blondie before Min’s corpse even hit the
concrete.
    The feel of his touch, how something
inside him had somehow connected with something in her, made her
tremble. Every cell in her body wanted him, instantly, soulless
demon or not.
    She shook her head and tried to
dislodge such stupidity.
    Why had she gone for scorching the
pavement when she should have gone for the kill? Her mother and
grandmother had taught her better. Vampires were animals. Filthy,
soulless, and single minded. If it wasn’t sex, it was food, gorging
on blood when they weren’t committing carnal debauchery.
    But this one was different. This one
hadn’t killed her. He’d wanted to scare her. So he was one of those
fiends that liked to play with their food before they ate
it?
    A moment of heated insanity welled up
inside Min and made her pulse pound in her throat and her body
tighten in all the wrong areas. She felt herself quiver just
thinking how it might be to be with a vampire—all that
preternatural strength…all that bloodthirsty passion.
    “ It would be wild,” she
whispered to herself.
    “ Shit...” the blonde said
from behind her.
    Min had forgotten all about
her. At least she’d obeyed and stayed quiet and out of the way
while Min took care of the big bad
vampire...
    Yes, that’s right. He is the
big bad vampire, and to play with such a thing is
madness…suicide…what’s wrong with me? Min
closed her eyes and took in a big breath, trying to gather her wits
and center herself. Don’t be stupid! Don’t
be stupid! Don’t be stupid!
    But he’d been so mouthwateringly
handsome…no, he’d been freaking beautiful. And the look on his face
when she’d burned his chest and set him on fire? He hadn’t looked
angry. He’d looked turned on. And that moment when he’d touched
her? It was like electricity in her veins. There was something
vaguely familiar about it, as if his touch had been…had been
something she’d been waiting for. And now that he’d touched her,
she wanted him to touch her again.
    Min sighed, rolled her eyes and turned
to face the bug-eyed blonde. “Why don’t I walk you
home?”
    The girl was alternating her
terror-stricken eyes from where the vampire had vanished, to Min’s
hands. “What was that? And what was he?” her tone was frightened,
but a little pissy. That gained her points in Min’s book. Being
able to get bitchy in the face of monstrous creatures of the night
took guts.
    Min turned back to the magic shop and
locked the door, then waved her hands. “That was a fireball.” Then
she shrugged in the vampire’s direction. “And he was a
vampire.”
    Blondie gulped as her eyes bulged out
even further. “Oh!”
    Min smiled. “Any more questions?” The
blonde shook her head an adamant no. Min patted her on the shoulder
and then headed her down the street, her eyes ever vigilant. “Well
then, let’s get you home.”
     
    ~*~
     
    His flesh had almost healed by the time
Luca returned to his lair, changed his clothes, and then came back
to pick up the witch’s trail. It still hurt, and it would until he
woke completely rejuvenated the next night. He smiled at the little
pain. It made him think of her.
    He found them both still walking south
on Vine Street. He could never get over how slow humans were. He
himself could not pull up those long forgotten human moments.
Everything after his transformation to vampire was crystal clear,
if