See – vampires ARE real

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Chapter 10 continues from yesterday

His urge to shout came a fraction of a second after he opened his eyes but Velma’s eyes told him not to.

“You see,” she told him, “vampires are real.” She smiled for a moment, the whites of her eyes became black, her long sharp teeth revealed themselves, and then her vampire traits receded again. “So now you know. And you’re going to make sure everybody else knows.”

She handed him his phone and told him to Facetime the leader of the opposition. Having no choice but to do as he was told, he scrolled through his contacts and tapped Amelia Lunk. After five unanswered rings it went to voicemail. Velma cut it off and told him to call again.

Amelia finally picked up on the third attempt. “Oh come on Morris, give me a break!” she said with undisguised disdain. “Do you know what time it is?!”

Without turning his head, the Prime Minister’s pupils moved to the right as he tried to point to Velma the only way he could.

Velma leaned in, putting her head close to Morris’s. “Sorry to disturb you at this hour,” she told the Shadow Prime Minister, “but we have something very important to tell you.”

Amelia nervously kicked her husband under the covers. “I’m warning you, whoever you are, I have just pushed the panic button so the police will be -“

“I hope you haven’t,” Velma interrupted, “because that could reduce our time together and I have more to tell you.” She knew the only panic button within Amelia’s reach was the man she was trying to launch into action with the heel of her left foot. “Let him sleep Amelia, he’s so tired.”

Amelia took a deep breath and tried to appear calm. She looked at the strange woman on the screen and nodded, hoping she hadn’t noticed her swipe to record the call.

Velma had noticed and was glad. “Anyway, it’s nice to meet you Amelia, I’ve heard some good things about you,” she smiled. “You’re better than this one anyway,” she sneered, nodding in Morris’s direction. “I mean, I read the other day that he’s a quote unquote well-known enthusiast of game shooting and deer-stalking!” She scoffed. “That’s not a person to be running a country is it? He’s morally corrupt!”

Amelia first shook her head and then nodded.

“People like that have no morals at all! They’re monsters!” Velma looked at the frightened Prime Minister with disgust and tutted theatrically. “You’d be better than that wouldn’t you Amelia? You don’t kill animals for fun do you?”

Amelia shook her head again. “No, I don’t.”

Velma transformed into a wolf for a moment and snarled at Morris.

Amelia was trembling now, adrenaline flooded her body but she daren’t move.

“You wouldn’t kill a baby so you could have his mother’s milk for your coffee, would you Amelia?” Velma went on. “You wouldn’t experiment on animals would you?”

Velma moved the phone to the Prime Minister’s left hand, making sure he held it at the right angle, then she grabbed his other hand and sunk her teeth into his radial artery. He gasped because that’s all he could do. “Don’t make a fuss,” she told him, “I only had a mouthful.”

She looked at the screen, at Amelia’s horrified face. “He was going to do that Amelia. Even after we told him bloodless wasn’t a contagion. Why? Why would he do that?”

Amelia tried to shake her head again but it was more of a vibration than a shake.

“Come on Amelia, I think you know the answer to this one.”

Amelia’s head vibrated again as she whispered, “no.”

“Consider the facts!” Velma instructed. What started out as melodrama was becoming genuine frustration and with each utterance Velma’s voice was incrementally louder. “He has animals killed so that he can eat their body parts and excretions, just because he likes the taste; he shoots birds and deer for fun; and he’s going to have animals poisoned and mutilated for money and political gain!”

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Come back tomorrow when Chapter Ten concludes – unless you want to read it now 😀

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