Chapter 69: Becoming a Vampire

CAROLINE.

The evening was fast approaching. After talking to Teresa, I calmed down a bit. I wanted to learn everything Erik had to teach me, but it was harder for me to accept my condition as a vampire.

My senses sharpened my hearing, my smell the most. I could run fast and the most important thing was that I could control my outbursts, thanks to Teresa.

“Are you ready?” A male voice came from behind me.

I was in the garden admiring the barely blooming flowers. Their beauty almost left me indifferent. Will I no longer be able to admire what was really beautiful in this world?

“As ready as I could ever be!” I said slowly, turning my face to him.

It amazed me to see how casually he dressed. He usually wore suits. He was elegant; this time, he had worn a sports outfit that suited him perfectly.

It was still black, accentuating his mysterious features. The tattooed cross around his left eye caught my attention so much. Its position made me want to touch it lightly, but I overcame my unstoppable curiosity and refrained.

“Follow me!” he told me, briefly scrutinizing me from head to toe.

I rarely blushed, but his staring was so intense that I avert my gaze. Then I followed him to the nearby park. I had learned that here the beasts had attacked Teresa sometime before.

I couldn’t say I was comfortable, but Erik was with me. He promised me he wouldn’t let anything bad happen to me.

He then approached me, so close that his smell remained imprinted in the corners of my mind. The musk mixed with tobacco drove me crazy.

This man awakened my long, frozen senses. I didn’t even know the last time I felt anything for a man. I had always been a busy woman, without too much free time, and now this new feeling scared me.

I had to start a conversation, otherwise, this man would make me commit the ultimate sin.

“This park makes me shiver.” I began in a low voice, almost whispering for fear of being heard.

“You’re a vampire now. The fear doesn’t exist anymore. It’s just an imagination of your human condition you had and it’s going to pass, you’ll see. It’s only a matter of time.” Erik reassured me in his manner.

Perfect. Now his sexy voice resounded throughout my body, resonating with every movement I made.

In a quick motion, Erik left and turned to surprise me with a flower he gave me. He slowly brushed my fingers with his as he was giving me the flower.

Tingling all over my body and a constant state of anxiety. That’s what I felt when he touched me. It was like lightning striking in me.

I quickly got out of this state of hypnosis and looked down at the flower in my hand that I was already clutching too tightly. It was a small plant, blue as the clear sky. “For you!” he smiled seductively at me.

It was not my imagination. Even when I was alive, I had not received flowers. I caught myself smiling slightly with my eyes fixed on the little flower. I had loosened its grip and now it was sitting quietly in my palm. It really was beautiful!

“Thanks ... I guess…”

Wonderful, Caroline, is that all you could say? Get a grip, girl! The idea of ​​this experiment was for me to see how fast I could move. The flower was just the pretext. And I was right.

“You are welcome. I just showed you how I did it in a second. Which means you can do that too. Come on, give it a try!” he playfully urged me with that smile that no longer disappeared but was not only provocative but childish.

As if, in a children’s game, he was urging me to do the same. Of course, I can. I won’t give him any reason to think I can’t. So, with the same crazy speed, I disappeared and came back just as fast, but his contagious laughter confused me.

I had held out my hand to him, I thought, with the same type of flower, but when I lowered my big eyes, it surprised me when instead of the wonderful flower I saw a few strands of green grass, one shorter, the other longer.

I stood gaping at the green grass in my hand. Then, suddenly, I burst out laughing, too. God, it’s been like an eternity since I laughed like that. And now, in my condition, it seemed like medicine that healed me from within.

It was wonderful. It was liberating. Then Erik’s voice became serious. “Leaving aside this laughter, this is one of your qualities as a vampire. It will help you defend yourself, feed yourself, take shelter when you really need it, and run away from the enemies. That you can move so fast will come in handy all the time. From my point of view, it’s the part I like the most. “He continued in a low tone, pausing for me to be able to assimilate everything.

But the enemy was the word I got stuck with.

“Enemies? Who could be our enemies?” I asked curiously, but also scared. “Who would dare to harm us with the powers we possess?”

“First, silver. It’s very dangerous if it enters our system. It paralyzes us and then slowly disintegrates us.” he put more emphasis on the last words.

My eyes widened instantly, and I looked at him in horror. I loved wearing silver jewelry and now it could hurt me? “And jewelry has the same effect!” he said, as if reading my thoughts. I stared at him with this question on my lips. “I know what you’re going to ask, and the answer in your case is no. You won’t be able to read thoughts unless you’re an elder like me.”

Curiosity ground me, and I knew he already knew what I wanted to ask him. I couldn’t help myself and yet he let me ask him.

“Elder? If I may ask you, how old are you?”

Again, that provocative smile appeared on his lips. I watched him without blinking as he approached, so dangerously close. He intoxicated me with his musk aroma, and I tried to stay in this reality.

Standing so close I could admire his perfect blue as the depths of the ocean in his eyes. The tattooed cross and the penetrating gaze intrigued me the most. That feeling of touching his cheek on its traces struck me again.

“How many years do you think I have?” he asked me confidently in his power of seduction.

Was that also a vampire trait? “A little over 1000 years,” he continued, seeing that I remained petrified and the words simply did not come out.

I wanted so badly to ask him about his life, about his family ... about his conquests ... But what did I care about his love life? With that grin all over his face, I realized he already read my mind. Damn blushing. “The love of my life, Jessica, died before my eyes, abducted by the waters of the ocean. There was nothing I could do to save her. It was beyond my power,” Erik read my thoughts again, only this time his voice had changed; it turned sad.

I could feel the pain he was struggling with, telling me about her to where I wished I hadn’t thought of that. But he also read that thought. “Don’t worry, this happened a long time ago. Jessica and I had a daughter who unfortunately lost her, too. Teresa…” he concluded, choked with emotion.

Maybe deep down, something connected him to Teresa, my friend. But he couldn’t be sure. From what she had told me, she was a little girl. But the voice of the blood was still unmistakable.

“Please forgive me, I did not intend to make you sad…”

Well done, Caroline, wonderful! You couldn’t find another topic to discuss.

“Werewolves!” he continued in the same tone as before, masking the sadness in his wonderful eyes.

“Excuse me?”

“Werewolves are the ones who can hurt us. I advise you to be as careful around them. And I don’t mean Sebastian and his family.”

“Are there other types of werewolves?”

Although my question was pointless, I still tried. Are there really other species I didn’t know about?

When Erik transformed me, I didn’t think there were dangers to vampires. This species seemed so invincible, and yet it was something or someone that could hurt us.

I was lucky I had Teresa next to me when it happened; and then Erik, who helped me, saved me from certain death. But what will happen if he will no longer be around at similar attacks? What if he did not arrive on time? Maybe in the end vampires weren’t as invincible as they seemed.

“Those who attacked you seem to be hybrids who can not only hurt but kill you instantly. Your luck was that you were human. And it looks like these kinds of demons from hell are closer to us than you can imagine! “