Immortality plagued me with the bite of a vampire, blood slipped from my neck and my mouth. Then I was reborn a new person, a more powerful creature. I spend years making money and building myself a home on an estate. I fenced up my acres of land and let a forest grow wild to hide the fact I was ever here.

Through the years it was easy to scare people away, to trap them and feed on their warm blood. But that’s all it was, a sick mind game to drive them insane before I drained them and left their bodies buried in the forest. Until now, a human from a neighboring village wandered into the forest surrounding my estate. Fog rolls over the ground as they walk between the tall standing trees that loom over them.

I had never been transfixed by a mortal, I’ve never thought much of them other then food. But watching them wander the woods, twigs cracking under their step, my eyes widen with wonder and fascination.

“Perfect…”

I whisper to myself, I should scare them away, or leave them for dead after feeding myself. But instead I watch as they get closer and closer to my home. I follow behind silently, my eyes trained on them when they finally walk through the last patch of trees. My large gothic estate revels before them, I quickly snap a branch and my eyes widen. I snap my fingers and disappear in a flourish of black magic.

“Where do you think you’re going, Pet?”

I ask as I appear behind them and my fingers curl around their shoulder and I lean in slightly. My lips close to their ear. My other hand goes up and gently curls around their waist.