THE DAY I SLAYED MY VAMPIRE LOVER
The violet light in his eyes didn't dim; it pulsed, a slow, hypnotic rhythm that seemed to synchronize with the beating of her own heart.
"You are bleeding," he said. His voice was not the gravelly whisper of a lover, but the precise, emotionless report of a machine. He reached into his coat and produced a small, leather-bound case, extracting a syringe filled with a viscous, amber liquid.
"Rusty, no," Cattleya rasped, pulling back. "I can heal”"
"You are not a prototype. You are a biological anomaly," he countered, his grip on her wrist firm, clinical. "The infection in that man”s bite is systemic. It will turn you into one of these things within the hour. Do not argue."