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you. Not all vampires are bad. One of my friends is a vampire. You just need to know how to live so that you don't go feral again."
    "Go what?"
    "Feral. It's what happens when a vamp doesn't drink enough blood."
    He visibly deflated. "I don't want to hurt anyone."
    More and more confidant, Jackie touched his shoulder. She pulled her hand away when a shock passed through her, but gripped his shoulder again should he think she was afraid of him.
    What was that?
    "You don't have to. The store where I work sells blood in cola bottles."
    "Blood is sold as a beverage?"
    She smiled at the awe in his face, glad to be the one to give him some good news since he looked like he could use it. Then she felt pity for him and wondered what he'd been drinking from to have survived five months without turning feral.
    Farm animals, rabbits, rats. Jackie shivered. Those were the usual choices, none very pleasant.
    Then a thought occurred to her. He said he didn't want to hurt anyone. What if he already did? "What have you been drinking?"
    He shrugged. "Nothing yet."
    She pulled her hand away and took a step back. "That's impossible. No vampire goes so long without drinking, and you were barely turning. If you did drink from someone, if you hurt someone ..."
    "I'm telling you I didn't!"
    The force of his anger made her step back. His features went slack and he raised his hands again. “I’m sorry, but I’m telling you I haven’t bitten anyone or anything.”
    She didn’t know what to say to that. He had to be lying, but she didn’t want to anger him further. "Then you gave me the wrong time from when you were bit. You had to because I promise you that no vamp goes so long without any blood."
    "I wasn't bitten."
    Jackie rocked back on her feet. He was crazy! In denial at the least if what she just heard was true. "What?"
    He took a step towards her and Jackie took another step back, aware that she'd been backed into the wall again when she hit it.
    "I was cursed. A woman did this to me."
    He put his hands on either side of her face. She wished she could stare him down, but she couldn’t help the fearful slivers that pierced her and made her flinch. "You mean she bit you."
    He shook his head. "I wish, according to you that would've been easier. She blew a red powder in my face and I inhaled it, and ever since then, at night I turn into this," He put his clawed hand in front of her eyes before putting it back beside her head. "And during the day I'm normal again."
    She shook her head, not sure if she was shaking her head at him or herself for even thinking of believing it. "No spell exists that can do that. You either are or aren’t a vampire."
    She heard a puncture and gritty sound and turned her head. He was digging his claws into the drywall. At this rate he was going to destroy her apartment.
    "You saw me last night. You know what you did."
    Her words left her mouth without thinking, parroting what Mike had told her again and again. "I can't cure vampirism."
    "You can!" His hand found the back of her head and he pulled her mouth onto his, meshing his lips with hers.
    She gasped and he took full advantage by slipping his tongue into the space. She pounded at his shoulders and tried to push him away. He captured her wrists and held them above her head with little effort despite how she pulled her arms this way and that , trying to free them.
    Abruptly he pulled his mouth away from hers and looked her in the eyes. Jackie prayed to high heaven the heat in her cheeks wasn't a blush.
    He kept her hands above her head with his one strong hand and brought the other to his face to see. His skin was still pale and the claws that were his fingernails did not disappear. He pounded the wall.
    "It didn't work!"
    "Of course not! I told you!"
    "Are you a witch?"
    She hesitated, and then nodded. "Yes."
    "Then don't play with me! I don't want to hurt you but I will unless you give me what I want!" And then he slammed his mouth over hers again.
    Again,