The Guest & The Change - By M. D. Bowden Page 0,22

than me, he has taken more victims, more blood, more lives. He is stronger than me.’

Sarah stood up and paced, ‘Then what can we do?’

‘We must kill him, we must think of a plan, before he destroys us. He will want you too, to spite me.’

Daniel got up and walked towards Sarah, she felt her heart pound as he took her hand.

‘Sarah, I want you now. I want you to be with me.’

Sarah felt confused, she pulled away.

‘But, I don’t want to be like you. I don’t want you to turn me.’

‘I won’t.’ He stepped forward and brushed her hair away from her face, his cool fingers making her tingle.

‘I’m so confused Daniel, I feel crazed by my feelings for you. I want you, but this is all so crazy. I’ve only just lost Jo.’

‘I know, I’m pushing things, but I’m crazy for you. You are so beautiful. And your smell, he pulled her close and breathed her in again, you smell different, amazing. And when I look into your eyes, I see you, I feel this draw I can’t explain.’

‘I feel it too.’ Sarah let him kiss her, and she kissed him back fiercely. She made herself pull away, ‘I have children Daniel. If Sebastian leaves this town, what then, you will follow him? You will just leave? I can’t follow you, I love Megan and Bea, I need to look after them.’

‘That’s why we have to end this, to destroy him. Then I will never have to leave.’

‘And Jo, we destroy him to? We kill him?’

‘If we don’t he will kill. He probably has already.’

‘What if he’s like you? What if he feels things more intensely and can reject that life?’

‘From seeing him earlier, I think that’s unlikely. He wanted to kill you Sarah.’

‘But if we kill him, it’s so final. I can’t accept this is happening.’

Sarah pulled back and sat back down at the table. Picking up her glass she glugged at her wine, numbing her reality.

‘I don’t want to kill him. I don’t want him to be dead. Can’t we leave, get my kids and run away?’

‘But if we do that, how many people will die? Do you want that?’

‘No, I don’t! But to kill him. Who would that make me? What would it do to me?’

‘You would be a protector, you would be protecting this town. He’s completely lost to you already. You can’t have him back Sarah.’

Sarah looked into his eyes. ‘I don’t want him back. I just don’t want this to be happening.’

‘Neither do I, although it has led me to you,’ he actually grinned, ‘I’m sorry Sarah, I know it’s destroying your world. But I’ve been in this alone.’

‘For how long?’ Sarah asked.

‘Thirty years.’

‘It’s only thirty years since you’ve been a vampire?’

Sarah actually laughed herself, ‘I’m sorry, it’s just I would have expected you to be a lot older.’ And she raised her eyebrows at him.

‘That still means I’ve been a vampire for longer than you’ve been alive though,’ he smirked, smoldering at her. Heat rose in her cheeks again, and she let it, watching him watch her appreciatively.

‘Daniel,’ she said more seriously, trying to bring him back on track. ‘What can we do, even if we are to plan to kill them. Both Sebastian and Jo. How are we going to do it? Have you ever tried to kill Sebastian before?’

‘Yes, I have. A few times actually. I’ve fought him, I’ve tried to trick him, but it’s never worked. He laughs at me, like I’m an annoying fly he can brush aside. He doesn’t really try that hard to kill me though. He turned me - I think he still wants me to be like him.’

‘How old is Sebastian?’

‘He really is old, a lot older than me. Maybe 700 years. I don’t know exactly.’

‘And is he invading this town? What has he done before? What have you watched him do?

‘He has done all sorts of things. He picks towns, always a long way away from each other. Typically in different countries to cover this tracks. Then he tears them apart. He turns people. He kills people. He turns people against each other. Sometimes he leaves it at that, moves on, finds something else to amuse himself with. Every few years he will take it all the way, completely destroy everything and everyone in the town. Literally leaving no-one alive. He will create some cover story and influence investigators to forget, tell media some story, gas explosion, the like. Then he will