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door, he called her. “Shannon! I find it equally puzzling to note that you also don’t cast any shadows in the sun.” She stopped and turned to face him. “Not only are you impossibly beautiful, I also haven’t seen you eat or drink anything since I came here. Are you a vampire, Shannon?”
    It would have taken no more than a second to reach him, clutch his neck, and break it with her powerful fingers. She’d protected her secret for so long and he’d unraveled it within days. She really should kill him before he exposed her to anyone. But Shannon hadn’t resorted to unnecessary violence in the past fifty years. Just because she was stronger than every other person she met didn’t mean she wanted to take advantage of that situation. Her moral compass, despite being a vampire, was very strong.
    “I am,” she admitted. He was quite persistent and it was clear that nothing would satisfy him until she told him the truth. “I would request you to please not tell this to anyone. It’s important for my survival. If people knew about it, I would have to disappear and start all over again in a new place under another identity.” 
    He considered her for a long time, his eyes boring into hers. “I promise not to tell anyone. You could have killed me for finding out the truth. Why didn’t you?”
    “Killing isn’t an easy option for me, Bryce. I don’t like taking human lives at the blink of an eye.” She walked back towards him, pleased that he seemed to be reacting well to her revelation. “If you were scared that I might kill you, why did you confront me with the truth?”
    “I took a chance.” He shrugged. “Did you know that Ra’ad was a vampire?”
    “No, not until you showed me the time lapse between the two phone calls.” She admitted. How could she have missed such an obvious truth? No wonder it had been nearly impossible for anyone to catch him. He’d powers at his disposal that normal people couldn’t even dream about.
    “Shannon, you know how I told you that I am always the butt of a joke among my colleagues? Now, it seems you can offer me a solution.” He stood. “Can you turn me so that I could also become strong and powerful like you?”
    Shannon couldn’t believe what he was saying. Was he serious? “You want to become a vampire? An undead? Drinker of blood?”
    “Yes,” he nodded emphatically. “I want it more than anything else I have ever wanted in my life.”
    “You might think that eternal life is a blessing, but it’s a curse. I’m five hundred and twenty-four years old, and believe me, there are very few things that interest me in the world. It’s a life of eternal tedium.”
    “I don’t care. It’s my choice, and I want it.”
    “It’s not your choice.” She was annoyed at his cavalier attitude. “I refuse to do it.”
    “Do you know how hard it is to know that you’re the only one among your friends who can’t run for miles, or lift heavy weights, or even shoot straight? This life is a curse. And you’re my only hope. Give me the powers I so desire, please Shannon. I beg you.”
    She wiped a hand across her brow. How could she not help him? “If it is strength you are after…I’ve a more unusual solution.”
    “What?”
    “I don’t know if you will be able to do it. It’s not easy. You will have to become my donor while we have sex. I will feed on you while our senses are fully exchanged and it will transfer some of my powers into you.”
    He blinked rapidly as if he couldn’t quite believe she had said it. “You’ll feed on me while we…have sex?”
    “Yes.” Shannon grinned. “Are you up for the task, Bryce?”
    He ripped open his shirt and raised his leg to tug off his shoe. “I’m always up for sex with you, Shannon. That’s like my wildest fantasy coming true.”
    “Now?” She was surprised by his enthusiasm. “Don’t you want to take some time off to think about it? It could be dangerous. If I was to lose control and drain