The Drifter (Sanguine Hearts Book 2)

Shelly Keller Paranormal

WHAT WOULD YOU SAY IF I TOLD YOU VAMPIRES ARE REAL?
WOULD YOU BELIEVE ME? NEVER MIND, IT DOESN’T REALLY MATTER IF YOU BELIEVE ME OR NOT.
YOU WILL.
VAMPIRES HAVE EXISTED SINCE THE DAWN OF TIME. THEY HAVE LIVED QUIETLY AMONG US WALKING SIDE BY SIDE WITH US INTO THE HISTORY BOOKS. THEY HAVE THE SAME CAPACITY OF HEART THAT HUMANS DO, THE SAME ABILITY TO LOVE AND TO HATE, ONLY WITH MUCH GREATER INTENSITY. WHEN THEY LOVE, THEY LOVE BEYOND HUMAN CONCEPTION, HUMANS SIMPLY CANNOT UNDERSTAND THE LOVE OF A VAMPIRE. THEY DO NOT SURVIVE THE HUNGER OR THE HATE OF ONE.
THE LAWS AND THE RULES BY WHICH THEY LIVE HAVE KEPT HUMANS BLIND TO THE TRUTH OF THEIR EXISTENCE FOR EONS, YET THE VEIL BETWEEN HUMAN AND VAMPIRE GROWS EVER THINNER WITH EACH PASSING DECADE. STILL, HUMANS DON’T SEEM TO BELIEVE THAT THEY EXIST. THEY WRITE STORIES ABOUT THE ATROCITIES THEY ATTRIBUTE TO THE LUST FOR BLOOD THAT THEY FOOLISHLY BELIEVE ALL VAMPIRES POSSESS WHEN IN TRUTH, HUMANS ARE CAPABLE OF FAR GREATER ATROCITIES AND DEBAUCHERY THAN ANY VAMPIRE EVER WILL BE.
THROUGHOUT TIME VERY FEW VAMPIRES HAVE EVER CROSSED THE LINE INTO NOTORIETY, OR HAVE EVER COMMITTED THE CRIMES AGAINST THEIR PRIMARY SOURCE OF SUSTENANCE THAT HAS BEEN ATTRIBUTED THEM. DO YOU THINK THAT DRACULA WAS A VAMPIRE, THAT HE COULD INDEED TURN INTO A THOUSAND BATS AND FLY AWAY FROM DANGER? THAT HE WAS IMMORTAL, EVIL AND MISPLACED? DO YOU BELIEVE IN THE TALES OF WEREWOLVES, AND OTHER SUCH CREATURES THAT MIGHT GO BUMP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT? YOU SHOULDN’T. THOSE CREATURES, THEY DO NOT EXIST. TRUST ME, THEY DO NOT.
THROUGHOUT HISTORY AND TIME, PEOPLE HAVE DESTROYED THAT IN WHICH THEY DID NOT UNDERSTAND. LACK OF FAITH OR THE BELIEF IN ANYTHING DIFFERENT FROM THE CHURCH WAS NOT TOLERATED. PEOPLE THAT STOOD AGAINST THE CHURCH WERE CONVICTED OF HERESY AND STONED TO DEATH. PEOPLE WHO STOOD FOR A REVOLUTION AND CHANGE IN THE WAY THINGS WERE DONE, THEY WERE BEHEADED. WOMEN AND MEN, MOSTLY WOMEN, THAT POSSESSED EXTRAORDINARY ABILITIES BEYOND THE COMPREHENSION OF MAN, WERE PERSECUTED AND DROWNED OR BURNED AT THE STAKE.
DO YOU BELIEVE IN LOVE? OF COURSE, YOU DO. WHAT WOULD YOU SAY IF I TOLD YOU LOVE WAS REAL? SOME WOULD SAY THAT IT IS AS ELUSIVE AS THE SHADOWY VAMPIRE, A FIGMENT OF THE IMAGINATION, INSUBSTANTIAL, AND UNREAL. WHAT IF I TOLD YOU VAMPIRES LOVE AND LOVE COMPLETELY? WOULD IT CHANGE YOUR OPINION OF THEM, OF LOVE? YOU HAVE AN OPINION. DON’T BOTHER WITH TRYING TO DENY IT. EVERYBODY HAS ONE. WHAT IF I TOLD YOU LOVE WAS NOT REAL WOULD YOU BELIEVE ME? SHOULD YOU? CHANCES ARE YOU HAVE FELT, LOVE. MAYBE YOUR PARENTS AND SIBLINGS LOVE YOU, MAYBE YOUR BEST FRIEND LOVES YOU. MAYBE YOU ARE IN LOVE OR BELIEVE YOURSELF TO BE. THESE PEOPLE THAT YOU LOVE, THEY LOVE YOU. THEY DO. LOVE IS VERY REAL. VAMPIRES ARE REAL AND JUST LIKE HUMANS, THEY LOVE. BUT THE LOVE OF A HUMAN, IT IS A PALE COMPARISON TO THE LOVE OF A VAMPIRE. NOT A BEING IN ALL THE CURSED WORLD CAN LOVE AS DEEPLY AND COMPLETELY AS A VAMPIRE CAN. A MILLION STARS COULD NOT OUTSHINE IT.
WOE TO THE ONE THAT COMES BETWEEN A VAMPIRE AND THEIR LOVE, FOR IT WILL MOST ASSUREDLY BE A VAMPIRE.

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