Love You to Death
He sat by the bed a while, lightly touched my fingers, then poured a cup of water and set it on the nightstand, and sat down in the chair without sleeping.
On the fourth day, he was gone.
There was a note on the nightstand. "Stepping out for a bit. Back soon. Wait for me."
I waited a day. He didn't come back.
The second day, he still hadn't come back.
The third day, someone from the Council came.
It was a Council envoy, an old vampire who had lived over a thousand years, leaning on a silver-headed cane, wearing a deep crimson robe. When he walked into the room, the temperature of the whole place dropped a few degrees.
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