Chapter 25

“How do vampires die?”  I asked as I lay in the darkness listening to his steady breathing.  I knew he was still awake because he was yet to snore.

His voice was muffled in the pillow when he finally replied.  “It isn’t easy to kill us, but there are ways.”

“Like, a stake in the heart?”

He chuckled.  “That would do it, yes.”

I sat up and hugged my knees to my chest with the blankets still covering them.  In doing so, I’d exposed his flesh to the cool night air.

“Blanket hog,” he grumbled as he gripped at the edge of the microfiber covering and tugged it back over his exposed flesh.

“What a baby,” I teased.  “Are you sure you’re a vampire?”

“Woman, if you don’t let me sleep,” he murmured in a tone that was half-teasing and half-serious.

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