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her tongue out at him.
    “Well I should have known from your maturity level,” he
said, sticking his own tongue out.
    She laughed, and her face lit up.
    Maybe I love her so much because she is like
sunshine and I haven’t seen the sun in over one and a half millennia , he
thought lightly.
    He swept her off her feet and held her close in his arms
for a moment.  She wrapped her arms around his neck and nuzzled her face into
his shoulder.  He kissed the top of her head.
    Vampires were not shy or self conscious, and he carried her
naked through the house to her bath.  As he climbed up the winding stair with
her in his arms, he didn’t care a bit if any of the staff saw them.

 
    four
    Sara knew that he didn’t care who saw them.  She watched
him climb the stairs with Aurora in his arms, not without a measure of
appreciation.  He was gorgeous, and she was only twenty seven after all.  She
also knew that, to them, she was a nameless, faceless servant.  She had lived
in their home for eight years working as a housekeeper, and they might not even
know her name.  They hadn’t even looked at her when she brought them their
drinks.
    Yeah right! Drinks, huh? She
thought.  But that is how she liked to think of the blood they consumed every
day.  Just like drinking a decent scotch or a glass of wine, she told herself. 
It was a little harder to think like that when they brought home a live one. 
That’s what her brother, Ryan used to call the people who let the Vampires
drink from them, the live ones. 
    “So what if people want to volunteer to be bitten?” She had
argued with him when he got on one of his judgmental rants.  “Trust me, they
are paid well, and they always leave on their feet.” 
    “They use them,” he insisted.  “They drink from them. They hypnotize
them.  They even fuck them.  Is that not exploitation?  Because, you know as
well as I do that they don’t need to feed on live humans to get the blood.”
    She shook her head, a little confused by her brother’s
words.  They sounded reasonable, maybe even righteous but sometimes when she
looked at Alex, she was not sure that she wouldn’t want to have him take her,
bite her, and drink from her, anything as long as he saw and touched her.  She
had even pictured Aurora biting her neck with her long, beautiful fingers
running down Sara’s arms and then lacing her fingers in Sara’s with their
bodies touching.  She was not even into women that way, but just the thought of
Aurora made a little sweat pop out on her upper lip and between her breasts.
    “I heard that it feels good to be bitten by a Vampire,” she
answered back.
    “It feels good to shoot your veins full of heroin too, but
that doesn’t mean you should go out and become a junkie.”  He rolled his eyes
at her and walked away, effectively dropping the subject. 
    That was almost the last time she had spoken to Ryan.  It
had been nearly two years since he left.  She had helped him get a job working
in the garage at the estate.  He wasn’t the driver, but he washed cars, took
care of minor maintenance, and drove them to be fully serviced as needed. Ryan
was Sara’s step-brother, and they were close in age.  Her mother had been
married to his father for only a few years when Ryan’s father died in an
accident.  Ryan was only eight and Sara seven.  Ryan’s father had always told
them that Ryan’s mother died and that he had no other family.  So, Ryan stayed
with Sara and her mother, and they were remarkably close growing up. 
    But, something changed in Ryan when he was a teenager.   He
grew quiet and kept to himself.  He sometimes lost his temper over the smallest
things, and Sara learned to keep a little distance from him.  When he was fifteen,
he went out one night and didn’t come back.  He didn’t take his phone, and none
of his friends had seen him.  They all said that he hadn’t been around in
months, and they didn’t know what he had been doing.