sound of breaking twigs.
Maggie opened her eyes, angered at the thoughtlessness. The men, they knew she was there. Straightening herself to full height, she began to walk out into the open, knowing the time had come. But when she saw him, she stopped in her tracks, her body having a will of its own.
As both men watched the area the sound had come from, a woman stepped from the shadows.
Even at the distance she now stood, she could see that he was the one. There was no doubt in her mind; she had found her destined mate. She stood on the opposite side of the darkened graveyard, on the very edge of its boundaries, staring at the man that stood across from her, and she knew that she intended to make him hers.
She intended to turn him, just like her.
Every hair on Kreel’s body stood on end. “Crap Charlie, that’s no damn cat!”
Chapter Three
What was a woman doing in the graveyard at this time of hour? Kreel watched as she came closer. Something wasn’t right about her, it didn’t sit well. It was her eyes, her eyes were not right. They were darker than midnight and held even more darkness than night.
“Hey lady, you lost or something?”
“Charlie, hush. There’s something not right about her.”
“Kreel, you worry too much.”
The woman made her way over to them with an unearthly grace. Stopping within just a few feet of them, she set her sights on Charlie. “I saw you guy’s having a drink over here and was wondering if I could join you?”
Charlie got a smile on his face that went from ear to ear and handed her the bottle of whiskey. “Here you go sweet thing, be my guest.”
She didn’t take the bottle. Charlie offered it to her again. “Well here, I don’t bite, it’s just whiskey.”
She smiled then, revealing the sharp fangs. Both men jumped away from the woman.
Charlie’s eyes got wide as saucers. “Lady, you got some messed up teeth!”
“Do I? I haven’t really noticed. Besides, I don’t know much about the whiskey, but I can assure you that I do bite.”
Just as she said that, she lunged for Charlie knocking him to the ground. Holding him down, she looked up at Kreel who was about ready to crap his pants. “Don’t go anywhere honey, this will only take a minute. With that said, she sunk her fangs deep into Charlie’s throat.
As kreel stared in horror, he could hear the muffled groans of his coworker between the sounds of wet slurping.
“Forget this shit!” Kreel took off running across the graveyard in the direction of his truck. He didn’t stop in his full speed run even once to look behind him. There in front of him, the truck finally came into sight. “Almost there,” he thought
Just as he got to the truck and pulled the keys from his pocket, he heard the sound of something like a thud come from behind him. Slowly turning around he saw the woman sure enough standing there. All he could do was stare in shock.
She stepped closer, wiping the back of her hand across her lips. “Looks like I drained that one. Too bad for you I haven’t had my fill yet.”
With a flash of unnatural speed, she was on Kreel. The last thing he remembered was the sharp pain in his neck as the two fangs punctured his skin finding the jugular in his throat. Then as his body became weak with each precious drink she took from him, everything around him dimmed to a pitch black.
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