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  “Jen, please, you have to understand. I was desperate to get to my father, and I needed someone to turn me. What happened with you was completely different, I swear. Using you was never part of the plan, and I never intended to fall in love with you. That’s the truth of it,” he reached out to take my hand and squeeze it. “I love you, and I never meant to abuse your trust in me.”

  I pulled my hand away and diverted my gaze to stare out the window at the farmland rolling past. A part of me could rationally understand what he’d been through and the difficult choices he’d had to make, but it was hard not to feel betrayed. If I was honest with myself, I was still into him despite everything that had happened, but I felt too burned by his story of how he’d become a vampire to admit it just then.

  “Just ask yourself why I would have risked everything to come back for you,” said Ben. “If you need time to process this, that’s fine, but please believe that you mean everything to me.”

  “I’m sorry to eavesdrop,” said George from the front seat, “but the two of you might not want to waste time being mad at each other for things you can’t change. I hate to say it, but the real truth is that vampires don’t much go in for things like love after a while. Your human side still has power, Ben, but that won’t last forever. After a few years, there’s a cold rationality that takes over everything, and it’s not really possible to feel love the way a human does. You two have limited time together, especially since we’re on the run like this, so I suggest you look in your hearts and enjoy what you have while you still have a chance.”

  I couldn’t help but smile. “Oh George, are you sure you don’t have a human heart ticking away in there after all?”

  “No, just a practical undead brain, my dear. The facts are what they are, and you two have a better chance than most to be happy for a while, so take the advice of a man who’s a lot older than he looks, and don’t waste time being unhappy.”

  I let my hand slide across the seat to grab Ben’s, and he took it without saying another word. We smiled at each other and the message was clear. George was right, and we needed to make the most of the precious time we did have together. After all, who knew what the next few days might bring?

  The radio had been on quietly in the background, but George’s head snapped towards it and his hand shot out to twist the volume knob up several notches. “This is bad news,” he said.

  The announcer relayed information on one Trevor King, wanted for questioning in connection with two separate murders within the last twenty-four hours. There was a description of what he looked like, and an appeal that anyone with information call the police immediately. The radio announcer warned that anyone who might see him should not approach him, as he was considered extremely dangerous.

  George clicked the radio off when the news switched over to a weather report. “This isn’t good Ben. I knew we should have gone after the Mad Vamp instead of letting him go. It was stupid of us to think he’d lay low or change his ways.”

  “Dammit,” said Ben, slamming his fist into the back of the passenger seat in front of him. “This mess I’ve created just keeps getting worse. Innocent people are dying because I let him escape with us and then let him get away.”

  “He’s so powerful though,” I said. “I don’t know if you would have been able to stop him with how weak you both were after all those whiteblood infusions. You can’t blame yourself.”

  “What do you think we should do, son?”

  “Trevor King can’t be allowed to run free killing whomever he wants. It’s my fault that he’s out there now, and that means it’s my job to take him down.”

  “Well, if that’s what you intend to do, then I’m there with you,” said George. “Whatever it takes.”

  “Me too,” I said, trying my best to sound brave. The truth was that I had no idea what I’d be able to do to help them fight a centuries old vampire, but I had nowhere to run and no one else to turn to. I’d stick with Ben until something greater pulled us apart.

  “It’s going to be dangerous,” said Ben, a look of concern on his face. “I don’t know if I like the idea of you ending up in harm’s way.”

  “Don’t think you’re going to be rid of me that easy,” I said. “I’ve got nowhere else to go, and I’m not leaving your side so long as I have anything else to say about it.”

  “It’s decided then,” said Ben with a grim look on his face. “We hunt down and destroy Trevor King.”

  Chapter5

  George pulled into the farmhouse drive and brought the car around back next to the barn. They got out and covered it back up with the worn out tarp, effectively hiding the fact that someone was living on the abandoned property. They spoke very little until they were all back inside the barn again.

  “So how do we find him?” asked George. It was obvious who he was referring to.

  “From what they said on the radio, it sounds like he’s still in the area. I imagine he’ll want to stick around and feed until he regains his full strength. Once that happens, he’ll have access to his full powers again, and he’ll be impossible to track down.”

  “We need more details about those two people he killed,” I said. “If we can establish a pattern then maybe we can get to him before he kills again.”

  “We’ll have to go back into town then,” said George. “If we can get to a phone then maybe Jen can do the talking and pose as a reporter asking about the victims. Once we have a bit more information, we can figure out where Trevor is hiding.”

  “It’s probably best if we rest up during the day and go back into town later this afternoon,” offered Ben. “Trevor will be moving mainly at night, so our best bet is to be on the lookout for him while he’s hunting. If we can get access to a police scanner later, then maybe we can catch news of him in action.”

  “You mean we wait until he kills someone else?” The idea of it shocked me, but I couldn’t think of any other way to track him down either.

  “I know it’s morbid,” said Ben, “but until we think of another way to find him, it’s pretty much the only way we’ll be able to get a bead on his location. A vampire like Trevor King will have a daytime hiding place that will be impossible for us to find.”

  “It’s the best plan we’ve got right now,” said George. “Why don’t you two rest up while I go find Ben and I something to eat?”

  “That’s probably a good idea,” I said. “I know I slept several hours last night, but I feel like I haven’t slept in days.”

  George slipped out of the barn and Ben and I were left alone in the quiet stillness of the large wooden building. Shafts of sunlight sliced through the air, illuminating swirling patterns of dust and hay particles. The sweet smell of the aging bales all around us was rather pleasant, and I realized that the farm must not have been abandoned all that long considering the hay wasn’t all that rotten.

  “Ben, this place… you didn’t do anything to the owners, did you?”

  “What? No of course not. Why would you ask that?”

  “It just seems like someone was storing hay in this barn not too long ago. The property doesn’t seem like it could have been abandoned all that long.”

  “Oh, that.” Ben still looked taken aback at my question. “The foreclosure notice on the front door of the farmhouse was only a few weeks old. Given the state of the furniture inside the house from what we saw through the window, the family left without taking their stuff. That’s why we’re in the barn. There’s a chance someone could come back, and we need to be able to get away without them noticing.”

  “Oh. I’m sorry for suggesting…” I let the rest go unspoken.

  “No, it’s okay. I guess that’s just something I’m going to have to get used to as a vampire. We are always under suspicion.” Ben unfurled an old quilted blanket on a stretch of hay bales and gestured towards it. “This is the best I can offer as a bed right now, I’m afraid.”

  I sat on the edge of the makeshift bed and patted the space next to me. “C
ome sit.”

  Ben sat down and turned to look me in the eyes. There was so much hurt and confusion in that look, and I nearly wept for how awful this whole situation was. I loved him so much, but it was too easy to question his motives and wonder how much of his vampire self was in control. Could it be possible for him to become so removed from his humanity that he saw humans like me as nothing more than just another meal?

  “I know it’s hard for you,” he said, “but I really do care for you, and I do want us to be together.”

  “Oh Ben,” I said, taking his hands in mine. “I love you more than I’ve ever loved anyone else, and I’m sorry for always second guessing your motivations. It’s just that all of this is scary for me, and I’m worried about getting caught up in something beyond my control.”

  “I never would have let you pay for the mistakes I made back at the Facility,” he said, his gaze lowering to the floor in shame or embarrassment.

  Rather than speaking, I leaned in and kissed him on the mouth. Our lips mashed together and he laid his hand on my thigh. Our tongues sought each other out, and I felt a burst of energy that made me want to use our time alone for something other than sleeping.

  I let my hand slide up his thigh until it hit the bulge in his pants. Grabbing his crotch through the fabric of his jeans, I massaged his manhood and felt it stiffening and straining to be released. Fumbling with the button of his fly, I finally undid the clasp and pulled down the zipper, the tip of his hot and hard cock poking out of the top of his underwear. Slipping my hand down over his shaft, I licked his teeth and felt the sharp protrusion of his fangs while I moved my hand up and down on him.

  Ben tugged my shirt up over my head, and then slipped my bra straps down over my arms. He pulled the cups of my bra downward, and exposed my breasts, my dark nipples already rigid with excitement. He groped at my chest and squeezed my breasts, his thumb and forefinger pinching at one nipple and sending an erotic tingle of pain through my body.

  I dropped to my knees in front of him and pulled his pants down to his ankles. Ripping off his shoes, I slid his pants and underwear all the way off, and moved my head to lick at his erect cock. Licking the tight bundle of his balls with delicate swirls, I ran my tongue up along the base of his shaft, my eyes on his six pack abs while he tore his shirt off and then grabbed onto my hair.

  He guided my mouth down over his cock and I bobbed up and down on it, closing my lips tight around the milky white softness of it. I let some excess spit seep out from between my lips, and grabbed his slick meat with my hand, wrapping it tight around him. I pumped my hand up and down on his shaft, my fist making soft squelching noises in time with the slurping of my mouth as I sucked him off. His cock was so large I couldn’t get all of it in me, but guided by the gentle pressure of his hands on my head, I pushed my head down on him, opening my throat to take him as deep as I could.

  When I felt I couldn’t breathe anymore, I pulled back and gasped for air, pumping my hand up and down on him and licking the tip of his cock in a way that made him groan and tense the muscles of his thighs. His cock twitched in my hand, and there was a hunger in his eyes when he bent forward to lift me up. Effortlessly, he moved me to my back, and pulled the last of my clothes of so that I was completely naked, my legs spread wide open and my pussy gaping and exposed before him.

  Ben’s head disappeared between my thighs and I felt the first lash of his tongue against my clit. He attacked my pussy with reckless abandon, pulling my lips aside and dipping his tongue into my hole, teasing out the honey that dripped from my cunt. His hand pushed my thighs wide open while he lapped at my swollen clit, and within seconds I felt myself cumming hard and fast, my fingers gripping his head and pulling his mouth against me while I bucked under his rapidly flicking tongue.

  Panting hard and feeling a cool sheen of sweat on my body, I yanked upwards on his hair, not caring if he felt any pain.

  “Put that vampire cock in my pussy,” I moaned. “I want you to fill me up and fuck me with everything you’ve got.”

  Ben uttered a guttural moan reached down with one hand to grasp the base of his meat. He held his cock against me and rubbed it up and down a few times, the swollen head of his cock rubbing over my clit and sending pulsing wave after wave of pleasure through my body.

  “Oh god,” I moaned, “don’t tease me like that. Put it in me.”

  I was wetter than I’d ever been before, but Ben’s cock was so thick and hard that it felt like he was taking my virginity. He hovered over me, his fangs out and his eyes wild with passion as he plunged himself deep into my opening. I spread my thighs even wider for him, and for a moment I wondered if I’d be able to take all of him inside me.

  “Holy fuck,” I said, gasping for breath. “Did your cock grow since last time?”

  “It’s a side effect of being a vampire,” he grunted. “The whiteblood kept it at bay, but now that I’m feeding on blood again, my cock can grow a lot larger than most normal men. It was one method vampires had to ensnare women they wanted to feed on regularly.”

  He shoved it in a little further and I whimpered a little as he stretched my pussy muscles.

  “Am I hurting you?” he asked.

  “Only a little,” I said between deep breaths. I smiled and raked my nails down his back. “But in a good way. Keep going.”

  Ben pulled back a little and then eased forward again, and I felt myself loosening to take him inside me. His hips moved back and forth more rhythmically, and soon I was lost in the pleasure of his giant cock slamming in and out of me. I clutched at the rippling muscles of his back and tilted my head back while he licked at my neck and fucked me with surprising force.

  “Feed on me,” I said, feeling his fangs brush against the delicate skin of my neck. “You need to be at full strength to battle Trevor King. Take my blood.”

  “Are you sure?” he asked, pausing in the middle of his frantic assault on my tight wet pussy.

  “Just don’t turn me, okay?” I tried my best not to let fear show in my voice.

  Ben pulled out of me and flipped me around and onto my hands and knees. He grabbed an ass cheek in each hand and pulled them apart, exposing my swollen gash and everything else to him. His cock poked at my hole, and a second later he was fully inside me again, his shaft rubbing against my insides in a deliciously fantastic way. I felt his hands on my biceps and he pulled me upwards, his body slapping against my ass as he fucked me and groped at my breasts.

  With one hand squeezing my right breast, his other hand came up and pulled my head off to the side. I could feel his hot breath on my neck and I closed my eyes and tried not to hyperventilate over what I knew was coming next.

  I sucked in air and my eyes shot open as he sank his fangs deep into the pulsing vein on my neck. Still he thrust his cock in and out of me, and I felt a new gush of wet pussy juice wash out of me as he sucked blood from my body. The effect was intoxicating, and I felt both wildly drunk and incredibly turned on at the same time. I clutched at his hand over my breast and squeezed it tighter, enjoying the sensation of his pinching my nipple as it mingled with the sweet intoxicating sensation of his mouth on my neck.

  “Oh yes,” I cried out into the barn, “I’m going to cum. Oh fuck, I’m cumming so hard!”

  My orgasm was all encompassing, and my eyelids fluttered as I squeezed my pussy muscles and felt Ben’s movements slow to a few steady ramming motions with long gaps between. The blast of his seed was so forceful that I felt it spurting inside me, and for what felt like an eternity, we stayed locked in that scene, my mouth open in a silent scream of ecstasy and his teeth clamped down on my neck as we rode out the final waves of our combined climaxes.

  Ben retracted his fangs and pulled away from my lips, his breathing deep and heavy in my ear. “That’s the first time I’ve ever fed on a human,” he said. He held me against him, his cock still deep in my pussy.

  I pulled away and spun around in his arms so I could kiss him and let him wrap his arms around me.
His cum dripped out of me and ran down my thigh, but I didn’t care.

  “Let me take care of that,” said Ben after a few minutes of silence. He pricked his index finger with a fang and a ruby red drop of blood welled up on the tip. He rubbed this spot on the two puncture marks on my neck, and I felt an odd tingling sensation.

  When I touched the spot where he’d bitten me, I could feel only the soft bump of a nearly healed wound. His vampire blood had closed up the broken skin as if weeks of natural healing had gone by.

  “It’s a neat trick,” he explained, “but unfortunately I can’t heal much more than a simple wound like this.”

  “I appreciate it either way. Your dad will probably be back any minute now,” I said, not wanting to break away from him.

  “Yeah, I suppose I should go tell him I don’t need to feed again before we head out.”

  Ben stood up and began collecting his clothing. I knew I should get dressed too, but instead I just sat back and watched him step into his underwear. He was so handsome and strong, but it was hard not to think about what George had said in the car earlier. How long did we really have before he no longer had the ability to feel love for me?

  “You look so beautiful right now,” said Ben. He bent over and kissed me on the forehead.

  I realized in that moment that I didn’t care about anything that had happened before this moment, and I resolved to not worry about anything that might happen later. We had something wonderful, and I didn’t want to waste any more time worrying about the future or the problems of our past.

  Chapter6

  Of course, none of that changed the fact that we still had to hunt down Trevor King. After George and Ben returned to the barn, we piled back into the car and went into the city. I tried posing as a reporter and using a burner phone George had purchased a few days before to get more information about the murders, but they wouldn’t release anything more than the general statement that they’d given out on the news, and that didn’t tell us much of anything at all. Even more difficult was getting our hands on police scanners, since the town was too small to have any sort of decent electronics store or even a military surplus shop where we might be able to find the sort of scanner we needed.