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startled choke, she looked at his face and realized he was chuckling again.
    He shrugged. “Sorry...but that’s not all he was pumping you for.”
    Keisha stuck her tongue out at him. “Ha, ha. Okay, pun unintentional, but acknowledged.”
    “Keisha, if you don’t mind my asking— what did you discover that made you suddenly so disposable?”
    She shifted around on his lap. “Of course I don’t mind your asking. What the hell? It’s been that kind of day...” He nodded towards the open window and she saw the darkness, “Okay, it’s been that kind of night. I guess I’m only going to have nights from now on, huh?”
    Yuri shrugged. “Some of the really Old Ones can go out in the daylight. They just get sun-burned really quickly. Whatever is in us doesn’t like sunlight. With enough of my blood in you, you’ll soon be able to stay awake during the day...you just won’t be able to go outside. But you won’t want to so it all works out.”
    “Um, Yuri, is it?”
    He nodded.
    “You can put me down now. I think I’m done having a panic attack.”
    He smiled at her, “Are you sure? I kind of like holding you on my lap.”
    Keisha started as she felt a part of him twitch against her thigh. She looked closely at his face.
    “We can still have sex? I thought that wasn’t possible anymore.”
    Yuri laughed out loud. “What would be the point of eternal life if you had to give up having sex? Like I said, the longer you are a vampire, the more you discover about what you can still do. Whatever keeps us alive wants us to be happy or it can’t be alive within us.” He shrugged again. “Besides, haven’t you read any vampire erotica lately? We’re all the rage these days. Us and shape-shifters.”
    “Are they real too?”
    “Don’t know...never met any but that doesn’t mean much. They could be all around us and choosing not to reveal themselves, just like we don’t.”
    Yuri watched as Keisha got up off of his lap and sat on the loveseat next to him but facing toward him, her knees pulled up to her chest protectively, her arms around her legs, with only her feet poking out of the robe. She glared at him in defiance. She also leaned forward, as her inherent curiosity asserted itself.
    “To answer your questions, we don’t have to kill to feed. We can just take a little from a few people to get what we need. We can fuck with their minds, like I did with yours, to create any kind of memory for them that they will find plausible. Cruising bars is usually pretty reliable since many folks want to get laid so badly they welcome the memories of it happening that we can give them. Sometimes we really do have sex with them while we feed, which makes it all the more enjoyable. We get what we need, they get what they want...win-win for everyone.”
    “Any medical evidence left?”
    “You mean like the tell-tale puncture marks in movies? Sometimes; but you can plant any number of explanations for that in their minds and it won’t be questioned. Besides, who is going to believe someone who goes to their doctor claiming they got their hickey from a vampire? I mean, really? As a medical professional, would you have? I mean before now?”
    She shook her head slowly. “I’m not even sure I believe it now. I could still be dreaming.”
    He smiled and shook his head.
    “I don’t think I will refer to myself as dead since I’m sitting here, thinking and talking. Dead people don’t do that kind of thing. I think, differently—animated is a good way to describe it, don’t you?”
    Yuri smiled, “Yes, that’s good...quite politically correct. We are animated by something other than what keeps humans alive. I hope you can find out just what that is for me. You say you don’t have access to your lab anymore? What happened? Why were you supposed to be killed?”
    “I don’t know the whole reason. I only know my part of it.”
    “Then tell me what you know.”
    Keisha took a deep breath, which made Yuri smile and