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.Trick paced the length of the room twice more and then stopped at the foot of the bed."This is insane.It's just too.unreal.Show me again.""Okay." Bast changed again, eyes flaring, need and hunger surged to the forefront.It was easy, tohunger for Trick, to want him.The need singing inside."Shit." The word was shaky, Trick sinking down onto the divan."You're.you're really a vampire.Like, for real."Trick looked around suddenly."There's not any cameras or anything -- this isn't some sick joke,right?""No joke.No cameras.No shit." Fuck, he wanted Trick.Hungered for him."Shit." Trick stared at him for a long moment, looking like he was trying not to cry."Shit."Bast let his face relax."Please Sweets.I'm not any different now than I was last night.I've not hurt you,have I?""I didn't know you were a killer last night! What are you doing, fattening me up? Keeping me on tapuntil you need to suck my blood?"He blinked, shocked."I'm not.I've never killed anyone.Ever.I wouldn't.I don't need to."Need - 56"You don't need to drink blood to live?""I don't need to kill anybody." Bast chuckled, the sound dry."Fuck, Sweets.Volunteers aren't myproblem.It feels good when I do it." He swallowed hard, not sure now whether to say anything aboutthe fact that he'd tasted Trick -- had from the very beginning.Trick was frowning hard now, he could see his Sweets' brain working hard behind the blue eyes."Shit.You told me once, right at the beginning, that you were a vampire.Fuck.You've been sucking myblood all along, haven't you?"Trick was up again, pacing, this time with short, sharp steps.His Sweets was angry."I didn't lie to you.I have drunk from you, but I never hurt you.Never.""But you never told me what you were fucking doing -- you never once asked."His heart sank.It had never been this hard."I'm sorry, Sweets.I.I was hungry for you and you were so close and so good." He moved to the edgeof the bed, reaching his hand out."I never hurt you, Trick.I never would.""How do I know that?" Trick looked around and located his jeans, tossed away in a fit of passion justlast night.He pulled them on, staying out of range."Shit, this is just fucked.""Please, Trick." Bast stood, a ball of ice in his belly, desperate for his robe."Please.I'm sorry.I neededto tell you the truth.I needed to.Don't go."Trick shifted, taking a couple of steps back."You needed to tell me the fucking truth from thebeginning! Shit, I should never have come back here with you after that first time.Fuck.Fuck.Fuck.""The first time? Fuck, Trick, what was I supposed to do?" He held out his hand."Hi, you're a whore,I'm a vampire.Wanna?" This was unreal, horrid.He didn't want to do this.He wanted to be back inbed with Trick wrapped around him."At least that way I would have known what I was getting into! Instead of pretending you were just anormal boy like anyone else and all the time you're sucking my blood!"Trick slid along the wall over to the dresser and started rummaging until he came up with a black t-shirt, slipping it on as quickly as possibly."You're not even human! You're like some animal preying onpeople."He stopped short, ice spreading, shaking his head."I'm not an animal.Fuck, I've never touchedanyone, anyone who didn't want it, didn't want me.Even you, Trick.You never pulled away.Notonce.""You never told me what you were fucking doing! You never gave me the choice to pull away!" Trickwas still sliding along the wall, keeping an eye on him as he went for his jacket.Need - 57"Please, Trick.Don't go.Stay here and talk about this with me." He walked over, putting himself rightin front of Trick."We've been together for months, Sweets.We've had a good time.Please.Stay andwe'll talk.""Don't touch me!" Trick glared at him, and Bast couldn't help but think of the way animals wouldpuff themselves up all big when they were trying to make themselves look tough and send a don't-mess-with-me message."Please.I'm not going to hurt anybody." He spread out his hands."I've lived here in this city for years-- decades -- and never hurt anyone." He hurt inside, so cold, so far away from center he didn't thinkhe'd find it again."Decades.fuck -- you're ancient, fucking hundreds of years old.And I don't know a fucking thingabout you -- you've been hiding everything about you that was real." Trick laughed suddenly, and thesound hurt it was so sharp."You want to know the really funny thing? I was starting to believe that Iwasn't just a plaything, that maybe we had something going between us here.What a joke.Haha,Trick -- fooled you.""I wasn't playing with you, Trick." He reached out, wanting to touch, to comfort."I haven't hiddenfrom you.I'm real.The rest is just details."Bast needed.Oh, fuck, what he needed was right here.Right here."Just details? And are you going to eke those details out one at a time, slowly, wait until I'mcomfortable and trusting and starting to fa-- and happy and then just lay the next thing on me -- seehow long you can con me into staying?" Trick scooted away, skirting his arm."No, don't touch me.Idon't ever want you to touch me again.You're a monster.""No." Tears welled in his eyes.He wasn't a monster.He wasn't."Please, Trick."His heart echoed with the dozens of times he'd said those words.Parakalo, Elizabeta.Per favore, Carlo.S'il vous plait, Michele.Please, Bryce.Please."Yes, you are.And now that I know I don't want anything more to do with you." Trick glared at himas he walked backward toward the elevator."I'm gonna go now and you'd better not show your facearound Roman street -- we're all gonna have stakes and carry holy water.We don't need any freaks likeyou down there."Need - 58He lifted his chin, looking closely at Trick.He looked carefully, memorizing each feature like he had somany times before, with so many lovers.Trusting people assured that at some point you needed tomove on."You won't see me again.You have my word.""Like I can believe you." Trick never turned his back on Bast, fumbling for the grating and backinginto the elevator once he'd opened it."Goodbye, Sweets."Fear didn't look good on Trick.Of course, neither did hatred, and together they were brutal.The grating closed on Trick and the elevator began to groan, hiding the sound of Bast's sobs.Hereached up, wiping his cheeks, sobs dying when his hands pulled away, covered with blood-stainedtears.He wasn't human; he was a monster.And if he didn't want the villagers coming with their pitchforks and flaming torches, it was time to getthe hell out of Dodge [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]