Cherry Stem

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Author: Sotia Lazu
Tags: vampire paranormal
eloquent, “Huh?”
    “Your hand.” As if that explained everything. “Stoker had the vampire thing down better than Meyer, right?” He sounded like he really wanted to know the answer.
    Only a dead and buried person would have missed the buzz the latter’s works had caused, and the former was a legend. “Stoker’s definitely closer—I mean, sparkling? Seriously? Neither is completely right, though.”
    “What is he wrong about?”
    I sighed. I shouldn’t be telling him anything about my kind, but if I kept him talking, I could buy some time. He was a cop; his word had some gravity. If he decided to start telling people about me, someone might give him the benefit of a doubt and check his story out. I couldn’t have that. I could let him in the basement with me since I was no longer keeping my nature a secret, but I doubted he’d want to share a confined space with me now that he knew what I was, and I didn’t want to compel him more than I absolutely had to. Still, I had to keep him within reach until I could wipe him, and the best way I saw to do that was to convince him I wasn’t a monster. I could stall till sunset, leave the basement, and wipe his memories of me with the least amount of trouble.
    Plus I hadn’t really talked to someone in a long while.
    “Um, where to start? We don’t turn into wolves, bats, or mist—not to my knowledge—and we don’t have a thing against God or anything religion related.”
    His gasp pissed me off. Here I was, trying to keep things between us civil, and he was upset one of the ways of hurting me was off the table. “Yeah, you can’t use a cross on me,” I said, tongue dripping venom—not literally; we don’t do that either. “Pity, huh?”
    “Don’t be stupid,” he said, adding to my ire. “Vampires seem to be repelled by crosses in most books and movies. I was surprised that, of all things, the religion part is a lie.”
    Were we really having a theoretical discussion about my vampireness? I shrugged it off and picked at the scab that was forming on my foot. “And we don’t feel compelled to follow the orders of any head vamp.” I thought that over again. “Well, there’s a council that issues laws, but they don’t micromanage.”
    “Hmmm.” Typical can’t-think-of-anything-to-say reaction.
    “Yeah…” Typical reaction to can’t-think-of-anything-to-say reaction.
    Five, ten, twenty seconds went by, and then he said, “Do you kill people?”
    “No.”
    “But don’t you—”
    “I’ve never taken a life.”
    I’d expected some expression of relief on his part, but he just shot his next question. It wasn’t an easy one. “Do you have mind-control powers?”
    Unfortunately our superhuman speed does not include speed of thought. I could hear the wheels in my head turn as I tried to find the best, safest way to respond.
    I must have taken too long, because his next words came out in a high-pitched voice I couldn’t quite associate with his husky tones until then. “Did you… hypnotize me? Is that why I brought someone I thought was a prostitute to my mother’s?”
    He really had no sense of danger; I could snap his neck, and if he kept accusing me of things, I probably would.
    I’ve never used my mojo to get a guy to take me home. I’ve never needed to do more than swish my hips and smile lasciviously, or stretch and let my boobs do the flirting. His gall was incredible!
    “No, Einstein . That was all you, wanting to talk ! I didn’t need thrall to get into your pants.”
    “How do I know you’re being honest with me?”
    I couldn’t believe we were having such a stupid dialogue. He couldn’t know. And I had no reason to keep being honest. The only reason I had was because—well—being me got lonely from time to time, and since we were talking anyway, I wanted to be real. “Because if I’d used thrall, we wouldn’t be talking about it at all.”
    “But you bit me.” There went the upper hand. I’d lost it. Buh-bye, upper
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