Vampire Holiday - Completed

21. Living with a Vampire

Daniel’s POV

She moved in with me after the night we spent together. Well, at least she never really left. Her things slowly filled out the place. I didn’t mind, except she would just leave them everywhere. Her clothes were on the floor, and cups were on the coffee table and nightstand. I was living with a slob vampire.

She was a vampire. I was living with a vampire now.

She didn’t want to talk too much at first, and most of our conversations ended up in bed, which was not the worst, but I wanted to know more about her. However, she was still avoiding the topic that bothered me. I didn’t understand why, but I was giving her time. I knew that, eventually, she would open up to me. She definitely cared about me. Caleb told me later that she took me to the hospital on her own. I could also see how much she was worried about me. She brought all the ointments to keep me well after our coupling sessions.

After my extended sick leave from work, which was primarily unending lovemaking with her, I eventually had to go back to do my job.

Aurora was not happy about me leaving to go to work at first, but I had to go. I ran out of vacation and excuses at work. I explained to her I needed the money to support myself and that I also liked my job. She offered to figure out how to pay for the place without me ever going, but I knew whatever money she would get was not legitimate. I could not take it, and I didn’t want her to get into trouble either.

I could tell she was jealous of me being absent during the day. She even said at least a few times, frustrated, that the pet should stay by her side at all times. When I asked her about the pet, she would not respond. Eventually, not without the arguments, she somewhat understood that I needed my job, even though I wanted to spend the rest of my time with her.

It also turns out that she actually slept during the day, so she got some needed rest when I was gone.

After the day of work, I came in quietly, turning the lock, but she slept so sensitively that she instantly would wake up and use her super vampire speed to get to me.

She would pick me up and carry me to the bedroom, carefully getting my clothes off now after I asked her, since she had ripped them to pieces before more than once.

We left our place to go to dinner after, as the sun was setting, and we didn’t have to worry about her getting burned up. I have installed sunproof shades on every window of my apartment, so she could be safe. It was insane to think that such a common thing as the sun would destroy her.

She kept bringing me a bunch of pills and ointments that were clearly vampire made as it said pet on it, so I am not super keen on using them, but one of them did really help to keep the bites healing fast.

The first time I told her that I loved her while kissing her in the living room on the couch.

She paused, looked at me, and said, “I love you ...” When the warmth of her words spread through me even more than her kiss, her bite, or the lovemaking we had, she paused again and added, “pet.”

“What did you say?” I asked her to make sure. “What do you mean again by a pet?”

She didn’t explain but kissed me again, and I knew I would not get it out of her, but it felt as if she took a knife and carved that "I love you" back and hid it somewhere deep.

Since then, when I told her I love you, she would look at me, and I could tell she wanted to say it, but she would not.

Was she treating me as if I was her pet? I knew I was more than that to her. I think… well, I hope she was conflicted and would not admit to herself or me how she felt or if I was just a pet to her. I didn’t feel powerless around her, but at the end of the day, I was human and could not live as long as she had. I could not do the things that she did. I didn’t possess her strength or speed. She could protect herself better than I ever could. She didn’t really need me in any way, but the source of food.

So I had my doubts, sometimes when she was not around, but they went away when I was next to her. There was a conversation that had to happen, but to be honest, I was worried about that discussion, and I just let it go for now. I also knew that she could easily manipulate humans. Was she doing it to me as well? Was I even in love with her, or did I just think that because she controlled my mind - controlled me? I could not believe it. I would not. But sometimes, I had a thought.

Often, when I woke up in the middle of the night, she was not there. A few times, I could not sleep until she was with me, but eventually, I got used to it.

When I asked her what she was doing during the night, she told me she went to visit her friends or ran some errands and went to her place. She didn’t sleep at night, and even though I don’t notice it most of the time, it still makes me feel uneasy knowing that she is gone while I sleep.

Regardless, she was always back, sleeping next to me in the morning.

I really should talk to Caleb about it. He must know more, since he was partially the reason I had met her unless he was also being manipulated.