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didn’t understand, since he spoke in another language.
    When her crying grew less intense, Yuri offered her a handkerchief. Keisha wiped her eyes, looked at the fabric to turn it inside out, and was shocked to see that she cried tears of blood. She quivered with fear and his arms tightened around her, holding her and rocking more.
    Eventually, her sobs ceased and she was quiet. When Yuri spoke, his voice was calming—though his words were alarming.
    “I am a vampire, Keisha. I wasn’t planning to tell you until we became friends. Then I could ask you to research the biology of what I am...to answer the questions I have asked for many years. Those cretins shot you and you were going to die. I had no other option. I gave you the choice because I don’t believe in turning someone without their permission. You were so close to dying that you experienced that as part of a dream.”
    Keisha sniffled. “So, I’m a vampire now too? That’s why I went so ape-shit and had to drink your blood?”
    She felt his chest rumble and realized he chuckled at her words as he had done last night in her barely-remembered dream.
    “Yes. That’s why you went ape-shit . You are too new to be able to control the blood-lust. I am old enough to have learned how to control it and how to ignore my hunger until I can feed safely. You will probably gain control fairly quickly, since you have had so much of my blood in such a high concentration. When I have just fed, my blood is diluted. I haven’t since early last night before I went to your apartment, wondering why you hadn’t kept our date for coffee.”
    Keisha turned her head up to look into his eyes. She found compassion and understanding there. She stared at him for a while and then sighed audibly.
    He smiled. “You see? We don’t really need to breathe but it’s a handy useful way to express emotions without words.”
    “How did you find me? I had no idea where I was so you couldn’t have been doing any kind of mind-reading on me.”
    “No, I did the mind-reading, as you call it, on your asshole of a boyfriend. You really need to dump him, you know. His dick gets plenty of action which doesn’t involve you. You won’t be able to catch anything communicative from him anymore but still...he doesn’t deserve you.”
    She leaned back slightly to stare at him again, this time in surprise.
    “He knew about where I was?”
    “You’re not surprised that he’s been cheating on you?”
    She sniffed. “I knew but I didn’t really care. I like sex and have no time to really date anyone. He’s always hanging around the lab complex since his father is one of the main donors keeping the lights on. So he was convenient. That’s all.”
    Yuri reached a hand out to caress her cheek with his fingers, and then turned her head so he could stare deeply into her eyes. He smiled and nodded as if pleased.
    “Good. Then you won’t mind when I kill him for what he knew was going to happen to you.”
    “No. I mean he’s a cheating pig—a self-centered, pompous prick—but that doesn’t mean he needs to die.” She shook her head and then looked alarmed.
    “Wait a minute. Does this mean that when I feed on people I will kill them? Can I use animals instead?”
    Yuri shook his head. “Animals can be used in extreme emergencies but not on a regular basis. Whatever we are, whatever it is that lives inside of our blood, prefers human blood. I don’t know why...that’s one of the things I hope you will find out for me.”
    “I don’t know how I’m going to research anything anymore. If Dan knew about the plot to kill me, then he’s in on it.” She looked away and concentrated deeply. “In fact, since he’s one of the only ones who knew what I found, he probably knows what I discovered about my work also. That may be part of why he was so friendly with me to begin with. Shit. I thought I was just using him for sex. Apparently he was pumping me for information all along.”
    At Yuri’s