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narrow focus. She could look wherever she pleased, taking
everything in. She stared at the Milky Way, seeing the individual
stars through the haze, and watched as it looked like they moved
slowly across the sky.
    She glanced
back at Daniel and he gave her a delicious smile. God he was hot,
and he was so good to her. He was patient and understanding, so
interesting and captivating – didn’t he have any flaws? She
pondered his personality. In reality she did not know him that
well. He had come into her life in a whirlwind and transformed her
world. If it was not for him she did not know what state she would
be in now, whether she would even be alive. She thought of
Sebastian, the ancient vampire who had turned Daniel some forty
years ago. He had come to her town intent on destroying it for his
pleasure, for his whim and for something to do to occupy his
eternity on Earth.
    Sebastian had
turned her husband, Jo, into a vampire. From that point on
everything had been crazy; her life had turned upside down. Daniel
had come to her, and she had completely fallen for him, immediately
succumbing to his utter attractiveness, and eventually falling in
love with him.
    She looked at
him and smiled, knowing she was coming across as doe-eyed, but she
didn’t care. He had put up with a lot and now she could let her
emotions show. She did not need to hide from him.
    She thought of
Jo again, how he had brutally attacked her, and how gutting it had
been to see him as a feral vampire. She wondered how things would
be if the situation had been reversed – if it was her who Sebastian
had turned into a vampire, whether Daniel would have ever fallen
for her? He probably wouldn’t have. If he had not known her as a
human first, he would have probably killed her; for Daniel had
killed Jo. It had been to protect her, she knew that. If he had not
done it Jo would have killed her. As it was he had bitten her neck.
It had been horribly painful as he had drunk her blood against her
will. It was totally different when Daniel had done it – when they
had been making love – that had barely hurt at all. It had been
heavenly connecting with him in such a manner. She had drunk his
blood too and if she had not she would not be alive now. She would
not be a vampire, she would be dead, as Sebastian had killed her,
with Megan watching.
    Megan! She had
not thought of her for ages – what was wrong with her? And Bea, her
youngest girl, oh she longed to hug her. As she thought of holding
Bea tight she started to see visions of her blood pumping around
her body, a rising desire for blood, and her teeth started to
extend. She jumped out of Daniel’s arms in panic, and saw, through
the sudden blood lust that was engulfing her, that Daniel was on
his feet too.
    She clamped her
hand over her mouth and wailed – ‘Bea! Megan!’
    She saw blood –
blood everywhere – oh she wanted blood – she wanted their blood.
    Tears welled in
her eyes and overflowed. How could she want her children’s blood?
How could she hurt them? She could kill them! What was she going to
do? She could not see them as she could not risk killing them. Her
heart broke and she crumpled to her knees, pain tearing through her
heart.
    ‘Daniel! My
kids! Oh, I can’t see them! What’s going to happen to them? I can’t
be there for them!’
    ‘Sarah, shush –
shhh – look at me.’
    Sarah could
hear Daniel talking to her but she could barely think to do what he
said as her heart was hurting so bad.
    ‘Sarah! Look
into my eyes.’
    She blinked her
tears away, yet they fell faster, but she looked up regardless as
she was filled with a compulsion to do as he said. Was he
influencing her? As her eyes met his she knew he was. She felt his
influence deepen and let his words roll over her, seep in . . .
    ‘Sarah, don’t
you worry. You don’t need to feel pain – STOP feeling pain. Your
kids will be fine. Your parents will look after them and they will
do a good job, they brought up you