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my eyes. “You are not afraid?” he asked, probing my expression for some reason I might jump up at any second and flee his apartment.
    “No,” I answered honestly. “I figure, if you were going to eat me, you would have already done it.”
    He smirked and kissed me again. His tongue swept inside my mouth to dance in a way that I came to crave all to easily. I pulled him close and he devoured me.
    When he allowed me time to breathe, I asked him a few questions that popped into my thoughts. “So, you’re a vampire? I mean, really?”
    “No,” he answered without hesitation. Nicholai ran his palm over my hair and settled next to me on his side before answering me properly. “I am not a vampire as Earth defines those creatures. I am Vampaerii. I came here through a portal from another world. My world. I drink blood, yes, but not as vampires do in your so-called history and myths. I am not the living dead. I am alive. Very much alive.” He punctuated that point by pressing his groin against my hip. I smirked. “I came here, to Earth, because I disagree with my peoples’ ways. I was raised a killer, but that is not who I am.”
    I scrunched up my face when Brad Pitt’s portrayal of Louis came to mind. “Like, you abhor killing people to survive?”
    “No. I have no qualms against killing when necessary, but for me to survive it is not necessary to kill. I can feed quite easily without harming my victims.” He paused momentarily and then added, “You are a firsthand witness of that.”
    Oh, God! He fed on me. The memory of his teeth sinking into my flesh was all too vivid. “You drank my blood.”
    “Please don’t sound so accusatory. I drank from you, yes, but you are different. I did it for pleasure, not from hunger.”
    “What’s the difference?”
    “For one, you were not afraid at the time.”
    “No,” I huffed, “but I didn’t know what you were doing.”
    “Secondly, you still remember that I bit you.”
    “Hard not to, Nicholai, your teeth are sharp and sunk deep into my shoulder.” Thinking about it, I could still feel the dull ache from his penetration. Well, both penetrations actually, but we were talking about his teeth here.
    “Yes, you can. But if you were someone I merely wanted to feed on, I would not have allowed the memory to remain.”
    “You’d alter my memory? You can do that?”
    “Mind manipulation is not difficult for my kind.”
    I slipped into my Star Wars voice and mumbled, “These are not the droids you’re looking for.”
    Nicholai gave me a funny look.
    I waved it off. “Nothing, go on.”
    He continued to explain his weird powers. “Vampaerii saliva heals the wound fast, and my thoughts erase any memory of my teeth sinking into your flesh. I have lived on Earth for nearly a year and fed without drawing any undue attention to myself.”
    “Then why tell me?” I had to know. What was he going to do? Would I wake up tomorrow and lose all memory of the best sex I ever had in my life? Okay, it was the only man-sex I ever had, and I had nothing to compare it to, but still, it was great!
    “I told you; you are different. Your voice made my soul sing, and I knew I wanted you. The scariest part is not knowing if you will want me, now that you know the truth. Your culture suggests fear towards anything different from humans.  I am not human. Will you give me the chance to love you as one man does to another?”
    “Love?” I heard him say it. And I heard myself question it. I just stared. The silence grew uncomfortably long. I hadn’t considered love when I came on this date. I just wanted to let go of my inhibitions and embrace the parts of me I kept hidden for too many years. Love ?
    “I need a shower,” I said as I gently pushed him back so I could get up off the bed. I knew it was not what he wanted to hear, but it was all I had to offer in the moment. I needed to think.
     
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    There was a knock at the door. It startled me out of my cogitations, and I