Loving a Vampire(10)

He climbed into the passenger side and gave him the directions towards the café where she worked.

“Do you miss your old life?” Augustus asked. The journey to Marianna would take some time.

“Why do you ask?”

“When you inject me with holy water and knock me out I dream. I dream about my life before becoming a vampire. I left behind a wife and ten children.”

“Fucking hell, you screwed a bit back in the day,” Gregory said.

Augustus chuckled. He loved his friend. “I screw a lot now as well.”

“How could I forget? What happened to your wife and children?”

“I didn’t kill them if that was what you were thinking.” He held his hand up when Gregory went to argue. “I’m not offended. When we first change the thirst for blood is more powerful than what you witnessed last night. I wouldn’t wish those first couple of years on anyone. It took me several lifetimes to gain control.” Augustus shook his head remembering the pain of draining his victims until there was nothing left. “I couldn’t kill the woman I loved or the children I’d created. I watched them from a distance at night. I watched as disease spread through the town where I lived at the time. There is nothing of my family, Gregory. My wife and all my children were killed within years of my death.”

“I’m sorry.” Gregory reached out to touch him.

“Don’t be. Please, answer my questions.”

“I’m not sorry that you took me away. I don’t miss my family, and I was dead to them a long time ago. They never cared about me the way you did. I’m not sorry for our time together, Augustus.”

He smiled at Gregory. Their friendship meant everything to him. He’d hate to have caused his friend any pain.

“I’d love it if you turned me, Augustus,” Gregory said.

His smile fell. “I’ve told you I can’t do that.”

“Why not? I don’t want to fuck you or anything. I love being around you. Our friendship is the only thing keeping me going. You know that, and I know that. I’d be dead if it wasn’t for you.”

Augustus knew that to be true. Gregory had pumped his body full of drugs. When Augustus found him all of his organs were shutting down. Giving Gregory his blood had sustained him, and providing he gave Gregory enough blood the human would never die. However, his blood didn’t completely heal Gregory like the movies described. Unless he turned Gregory then without his blood the human would die.

“You don’t want this life, Gregory.”

“Don’t try to tell me what I want.”

He stayed silent. When Gregory got into one of his moods, Augustus knew it was best to leave everything alone until he calmed down.





Chapter Four



Everything Marianna thought she knew had changed within one night. She saw the heading in the newspaper about the three men found dead down a darkened alleyway. There was no evidence of her there, or at least the papers didn’t think so. She couldn’t stop thinking about what Gregory said. When she’d turned up for work, Donald asked her about her cuts and bruises.

Saying she got run over by a car hadn’t cut it.

“I fell down a lot of steps. I was lucky I didn’t break my neck,” she said.

“Are you sure?”

“Yeah, I’m fine. I’m a little sore but nothing else.”

Her boss stared at her, his gaze unwavering. She felt like a bug under his watchful gaze.

“Okay, I’ll let you get to work.”

Throughout the evening she was asked a load of questions. She smiled and bluffed her way through the questions. During one of her breaks she sat in the back staring at her cup of coffee when Donald walked through the back.

“Your man is here with his boyfriend. They’re in your section, and they want you to serve them.”

Marianna tensed. Augustus was here?

She quickly glanced out of the window to see it was dark. “I … erm … better get to it.” Giving her best fake smile she walked out to the café. A lot of the customers had gone. She didn’t really care. The two men sitting together, one pale, the other not, caught her attention.

“You’re looking better,” Augustus said.

“Thanks. I took some painkillers for the pain.” The bite mark on her neck had healed throughout the day.

“That is what painkillers are for,” Gregory said.

“What can I get you guys?” She blushed when she looked at Augustus. He wasn’t exactly a guy.

“I’m very much a guy.”

“You can read thoughts?”

“There is a lot I can do, Marianna.”

A thrill travelled up her spine at the seductive note of his voice.