THE DAY I SLAYED MY VAMPIRE LOVER
This was the rhythm of something that had decided death was negotiable.
She held her fingers there longer than protocol required.
The blood beneath his skin moved with unnatural purpose, as though each cell remembered exactly where it belonged.
“Repeat the hematology panel,” she ordered.
“We already—”
“Again.”
The technician obeyed. The machine whirred, hesitated, then spat out the same impossible result:
ERROR: SAMPLE NON-CLASSIFIABLE
Cattleya stared at the screen. Science, usually so obedient, had begun to stutter.
She leaned closer to the man’s face. Pale. Flawless. Unnervingly preserved. There was no fear in her assessment—only a deep, clinical hunger to understand.