“Then tried to tell me I was hallucinating,” I said, furrowing my brows together. “You gaslighted me.”
Joseph said nothing. He just observed me silently for a long while.
After another breath of silence, I decided to just change the subject.
“Do vampires burn in the sun?”
“The sunlight makes us ill,” he explained. “It won’t burn our flesh, but it will make us sick. Almost like the flu. Sometimes it could be fatal.”
“That’s awful…” I breathed.
That also explained the night course and all the closed window curtains in his house.
“What about blood?” I then asked. “Do you need to drink blood to survive?”
“That’s a myth,” he said, shaking his head with dismay written all over his face. “Blood acts as an addiction to us. We don’t NEED blood to survive. We just WANT it. We can get the sam
