Only Two Of Us

by Cassandra Russell

  any part of a vampire's body only lasts about five minutes. In other words, my power

  regeneration is exceptional. If you want to test, just bite. You can rip up a piece of me that I

  I'll leave, "he hissed slyly, stretching his arm to my mouth to prove what he was saying.

  "Even so, I do not think it's a pleasant feeling to stay, even if it's for

  five minutes, without certain organs ... - counterattack.

  - Know. He grimaced. "But not wanting to ruin your devastating explanation, I think

  really have to give me some medicine. It was not a joke when I said that I was in pain.

  He frowned, as if he was really feeling her.

  "Are you in pain for what ...?" I swallowed again, blood rising to the face.

  unintentionally.

  "Because I want more than I should," he answered in the can. "It's just not the way you imagine it,

  localized. Humans do not know what that is. It is a pain that comes from within, would say visceral. Perhaps

  in time you can learn to control it, but for now ...

  - I think ... I have ... a remedy ... for that.

  That's what he hoped he would say. Next time, I'll want a closer and faster analysis.

  "You're picky, are not you?" I felt a hand begin to slide down my back, subtly

  pushing back the cover that covered me.

  "No, I'm a sick man in love. The diagnosis was yours. Now kiss me and you can let the rest

  I drive.

  And that's exactly what I did, losing myself again in his arms.

  Chapter 18

  Later, only my physiological needs made me move away from him.

  I could not remember the last time I had ingested anything, and after so many hours feeding

  only the soul of passion, eating has become a pressing factor. So we go back to wearing our

  clothes, not without first doing my personal hygiene and taking a warm shower. Per

  luck, he always carried the toothbrushes and hair in his bag.

  "Forgiveness ... Sometimes I forget you're human," Richard said when he heard the snore in my

  stomach. "That's embarrassing of me, is not it?" I bring her here and I have absolutely no

  nothing edible to offer - lamented, tying his sneakers.

  "Do not worry, I understand perfectly. And you, you do not have to feed either? I asked.

  - Not every day. Only now, with you here ... I will have to intensify my meals -

  he reflected, compenetrated. "If I had not been so accustomed to smell ..."

  "You mean you're thirsty for my blood?"

  "I'm still a vampire. Do you think it's easy to breathe in that warm, fragrant neck?

  Feel the aroma of your favorite dish so close and resist? Your oxygenated red blood cells are calling

  for me the whole time! Richard ... Richard ... "he dramatized, ghostly. - But do not

  worry, this will never happen. Not the way I love you.

  "So, if you stop loving me, I'm fried?"

  He got up from the bed and gave a loud laugh.

  "Do you know when that will happen?" Nun-ca - syllabou. - Now, let's stop blah-blah-blah and

  solve our current problem. I'll take you to a restaurant first, and then we'll go out and get some

  a refrigerator, a stove, supermarket shopping ...

  "What's all this for?" Are you going to change your diet?

  - Ugh! Of course not! The house needs to be stocked for you, is not it obvious? - He said so

  so evident that I felt like a tremendous retard.

  "You do not have to do that. I have groceries in my room.

  He positioned himself right in front of me, folding his arms in reprisal.

  "You really think I'm going to let you out of here to sleep somewhere else that is not by my side."

  after all that has happened between us? You accepted the conditions, my love. I said I would be doomed

  forever. You are mine now, "he said humorously, his blue eyes widening and

  word.

  Richard could not be serious, could he?

  I reflected for a brief moment and he caught the doubt in my eyes:

  "You thought I was joking?" I would not joke about such a thing.

  "Did I hear you right?" You're telling me to live here? I realized, still not having faith in what he said.

  - IT IS. Something similar. Perhaps, prisoner is a more adequate word - confirmed again

  playful way, leaving no room for doubt.

  This could not be solved like this, the cash ring ...

  - Oh yes? Prisoner? And who's going to stop me from leaving, may I ask? I challenged.

  "If I were you, you would not challenge me." You do not know what a vampire can do.

  - That's what we'll see.

  I ran as fast as I could to reach the exit door, but he was already there, laughing at me like a

  naughty child. I took a few quick steps back and when I turned around, he had already positioned himself

  the other side, holding me by the elbow. I tried to get away and the most I could do was stay

  sandwiched between it and the wall once more.

  "I'm beginning to like the joke," he said, looking at me in a sensual way, able to

  to bend even the most fervent nun of a convent into a compulsive sinner.

  "How can you be so quick?" "That situation left me literally confused.

  "It's part of my nature."

  - Can you let me go?

  "Yes, but only after hearing your answer." Are you going to live with me? He asked in a tone

  threateningly fun.

  - No.

  He pretended to clear his throat.

  "I'm going to pretend I did not hear and rephrase the question. You want to live with me and be my love, the

  my heart?

  First timer, I found an opponent to the height ...

  "Do not you think you're being a little rushed?"

  "No. You took too long to get into my life." Taking all the years of existence,

  I still had to wait five months and twenty-three days to finally feel the sweet taste of his mouth. AND

  now that I've tasted it, I'm addicted. So I do not want to wait another second. Answer my question...

  Wow! Has he counted the days since we met?

  "No, Richard. Better not.

  - No? You see, you do not understand vampires at all. I will not take no for an answer.

  "If you do not take no, why do you keep asking that question?"

  "Because I do not want to force you, I want you to want to be with me." His voice softened.

  "Okay, so ... I'll think about it," I promised.

  - Think? He twisted his nose. "Is one minute enough?"

  - Of course not!

  "If that's the way it is, I'll have to torture her until her response changes," she teased, pressing her lips together.

  my.

  "Are you sure this is torture?"

  "Depending on the point of view," he said, deliberately brushing his cold mouth against

  up my neck.

  Really, from that point of view ...

  - That's not fair. You're distracting me, "I complained, running out of air.

  "It's worth everything in the war." The intention is exactly this. And he continued his torture, moving on to the

  other side of the neck. "I have to play with the guns I have.

  I had to hold my hand. He was a great strategist. He attacked on the one hand and

  opponent - that is, I - on the other. My resistance was by a thread, being destroyed by your

  irresistible affection. It was a real master move.

  "I have not heard your answer yet.

  "T ... Maybe," I replied, shaking from head to toe.

  - I'm sorry, wrong answer. The difficult person! She bit my ear.

  "If I were easy, it would not be any fun," I gasped to speak.

  My last cartridge of intellectual ammunitio
n had just been used.

  "I totally agree, but it's making it difficult now. I'll end up getting tired and leaving for

  a more invasive attack. And I do not know if you're going to think it's a good idea, since you're the only one languishing with hunger

  on here...

  He was right.

  I raised the white flag in surrender. My stomach felt like a roaring lion.

  giving more to wait. I was annihilated by the lack of supplies.

  "Stay with me, Stephanie," he said in a warm whisper to get me out of the way.

  "All right, you win," I gave up, defeated, getting a kiss in return, as if something like that,

  so encouraging, could be compared to a consolation prize.

  The smile of triumph he could not contain. Within seconds I was ready and waiting in the living room.

  "So where should I get your things?" He asked anxiously, whirling the car key in the

  hands.

  I wanted to laugh. I went to the window and pointed to the room of my boarding house. His physiognomy

  perplexed was hilarious.

  - You Must be kidding! I was suffering all this time and you were here, right in front of me?

  "Are not you the" sir "? The fastest vampire in the West? How did you discover the secret?

  from my hiding place, having so many powers? I moaned.

  "You have no idea how hard it was to keep up the urge to follow all your steps, but I have

  I'm proud: I did it. Nor could he do certain things in front of a

  people. It would show too much of my condition, would not it?

  "I think your predatory instincts are not that big of a deal," I mocked.

  "Very funny ... Just do not forget that I can still hunt my prey," he threatened.

  with sensuality.

  "Yes, but not now. Let's go? I cut off that crazy conversation, my stomach had reached its last.

  "Before, may I ask one more question?"

  - Of course.

  "You were the one who tried to hide behind the pillar of that bakery that is in our

  corner? He glanced suspiciously.

  "I thought you had not seen me." - Smile.

  "And I, more relieved now. I even imagined that it was a hallucination of my head ... Now

  Come on, before you faint of hunger!

  Richard ended up taking me to a Japanese restaurant after he asked about my preferences.

  He waited for hours, sitting in front of me, wringing his nose as he watched the

  variety of sushis, sashimis and makimonos that were being served to the table. He even got lucky.

  no one notices his expression, because I know it's not everyone who likes this type of cooking.

  If I did it in an Italian restaurant, maybe people would find it odd.

  After all, he spent all his time talking and pretending to be happy for simply

  be together. He did not look at all like that bored, irritated doctor I met in the first

  day of duty. Now he was someone loose, amusing, talkative ... And I, the happiest and most fortunate woman of this

  planet.

  And the most important: complete.

  Every feeling of suffocation had vanished as if in a magic spell. Before, I felt that there was

  a right place in the world to stay and had just figured out why. It was because I was not with him.

  still. My place was always by your side.

  - Is that good? He asked, looking crookedly at a salmon sashimi.

  - I love it, you wanna try it? I stretched one toward him, stuck in the hashi.

  - Nor dead! He lifted his head. "I mean ... Oh, you get it!"

  Her reaction was so funny that it made me smash the sashimi on the plate.

  - You speak Portuguese very well. If Ava had not said that they had come from London,

  I would be suspicious, "I said.

  "I've always had the ability to study languages." Latinas are very similar. I also had time

  too much for that, do not you think?

  - Do not know. How old are you?

  "Are you sure you really want to know?" He was not very comfortable with the question.

  "I thought only women were worried about that." But you should not be afraid. Up until

  where I know, vampires do not have to resort to botox.

  - I do not know. Are you going to run out of the restaurant after discovering that you date a grandpa

  very old ...

  "To a grandpa until you're not to throw yourself away." I looked him up and down. - Do not

  worry: "what matters is what you have on the outside!" - I said.

  "Wait, you're not changing the balls, are you?" As far as I know, this saying is just the

  contrary.

  "You're not human either." I do not know a vampire saying - I mocked.

  "Where did you learn to be so cute?"

  "In the same place where you learned to be a cop," I replied. - Are you going to tell your age or are you

  state secret?

  "I've always heard that women were dangerous, I just did not think they were so-" He sighed.

  - All right, there it goes: 158 years.

  - Nice.

  - Nice? He frowned.

  "What did you want me to say?" Oh, what horror? "I dramatized.

  - I'm really lost ... And you, how old are you?

  - I just turned 24.

  I smiled inwardly to remember that my birthday, even forgotten by myself, ended

  being celebrated in his arms. I could not have gotten a better surprise than this.

  Just imagine ... I won happiness wrapped in gift paper!

  - Ah! He exclaimed.

  - Oh? What do you mean by that?

  "What did you want me to say?" Nice?

  - Cool is a good answer. At least it's better than Ah, it seems most do not express thing

  some.

  "Ahhhh ..." he protested, making himself a victim of injustice and teasing us.

  We spent the rest of the afternoon as normal human beings: shopping,

  home appliances...

  Richard looked like a child in front of a toy store. I wanted to get a lot of things

  which he did not even know what they were for. To buy, for example, a nut cracker if I do not

  ate The refrigerator sized two families and the stove of "trocense" mouths he demanded that he deliver

  immediately they were the high of the day.

  The same comic went to the supermarket.

  Perhaps the word super of the market has risen in his head, because at the same time that he was going

  putting the things inside the cart, had to go discreetly withdrawing. Anyone looking absurd

  of these, I would think I had a dozen children to support ... How does one person, uniquely,

  could I eat a pound of ham or a whole bunch of bananas without letting it rot? If

  I was really willing to digest all this, in a few months I would need a crane for me.

  get off the ground!

  I believe that over time he had totally lost the notion of quantity, and, above all, he did not

  I admitted that I lacked anything. Little did he know that I would content myself only with his company, which did not

  he had the slightest bit of nonsense.

  However, he did not want to take much of the candy from the child's mouth; if he was so happy, why not satisfy him?

  At dusk, we went to the boarding house to get my suitcase, and on the way back Richard emptied a closet of his.

  room so I could put my belongings. He would not need all this, the luggage was

  little. I was only disturbed when I noticed that he locked himself discreetly in the

  examination room He was almost certain he had passed the key to the door to feed himself.

  hidden, as if he were still ashamed or panicked that he should see him that way. As

  we would share our life together, I came to the conclusion that I s
hould put an end to this trauma of a

  once and for all.

  - Why did it? I asked him seriously, as soon as he left the room.

  "Why did I do what?" He did not seem to understand the question.

  "Why did you lock yourself in the bedroom?"

  "I ... quenched my thirst," he said, reducing the volume of his voice, ashamed.

  - Yes, I understood. And the question still holds true. Why did he have to lock himself up?

  "Because ... I do not feel good that you see me doing this," he confessed, even more embarrassed.

  "You spent the whole afternoon with me at the restaurant, wringing your nose, but it was there with me.

  - I made an analogy.

  "Yes, but it's different. I...

  "No, it is not." I cut off his speech. "If I'm going to live with you, I demand equal rights."

  He grimaced, trying to figure out a way to defuse the demand.

  "You're going to get scared." I do not want to sound like a ...

  - A monster. That's what I was going to say, was not it? Even I understand that you have been impressed by

  my face that day. Also, what did you expect? You need to understand that I did not know what you

  was doing. Anyone who was in my place would be scared, too. Incidentally, until then, I

  that vampires were a legend!

  "No, I will not stay here to take that risk," he denied vehemently.

  - What risk? Do you think I'm going to run away from here?

  "You've run away from me at other times, if you do not remember."

  "Now you will hear me," I demanded. - Do you happen to believe that what I feel is so small that I

  can bear to see him doing something inherent in his nature? Believe me I would have spent the whole night

  in his arms if he found it repulsive or anything of the sort? He believes he would be putting the

  my clothes in your closet, changing my address here, if I had any doubts about our

  relationship? For it is believed, it is roundly deceived. You are joining the wrong person. Or become

  like my man, a real mate, or pick up my suitcase right now and hit

  Retreat from this home! And this time there will not be an atomic vampire to hold me! - And I left collecting mine

  objects back with the face closed.

  He swallowed the pain dryly and resolved to change tactics. In less than two seconds, his mouth already

  glued to my ear, ready to destroy the rear again with that seductive voice.

  "Stephanie, I just had the best night of my life. I've never felt something so strong, so intense