page31 (1/2)

“Sure” What was that? A? I need to have my head checked

“I a you the truth, whether you decide to believe it or not” He leans forward and gently touches my arm, I shift back out of his reach

“Don’t touch me” The words leave my lips like tiny sparks of hatred

“Please, Tegan, don’t make this any harder than it already is”

“Will you let me leave?”

“I can’t, not yet I need to explain things to you about our existence, about everything If you are to be one of the few humans aware of us, then you need to know that we are not the killers portrayed in your stories If I let you go nohen you’re like this, angry, hostile, then it won’t end well for either of us”

“I can’t see anything ending well for s see toin my own self-pity, but I can’t seem to help it

“I’s to you properly?” he asks, an ounce of hope in his words

“Ethan, does it look like I have a choice?” I burst, gesturing towards the door that he locked just after he brought me here

“Very well, I would prefer it if you cals could be worse” He stops ato think of where to start The silence drags on for a couple of heartbeats, and then he begins “As you have already deduced, I am a vampire, as is Lucas…”

“What about Delilah?” I interrupt, thinking of her otherworldly beauty

“Delilah…” he says, “is neither one nor the other She is a dhamphir, half human, half vampire In fact, she is my half-sister, we share a father”

“You a share a father? Does that mean you were born?” I ask, while visions of coffins and the undead swirl on the periphery of my brain

“Yes I was born,” he replies “We are not the dead things most myths say we are We are just another species Of course, it is not knoe evolved, for nobody can trace our origins that far back It is thought that we evolved from humans, similar to how humans believe they evolved from apes When you think about it that way, it isn’t so hard to believe that we exist”

“I guess not” I ad the insinuation that humans are the equivalent of apes to a vampire