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Prologue

Prologue.

Is this how death feels like?

Noah struggled for breath. He'd never thought he'd go out like this. In a dirty, stinking alley. He shivered as creeping cold swept through his body.

"Mmm, you taste so good." The sick monster above him licked his fangs. Fangs! Who'd have thought that vampires existed, certainly not him. "Poor little cop, I think I've drained you dry."

His heart was slowing, he could barely hear it beat. The ground was hard beneath him, bruising him.

"Beg me," the vampire whispered, "Beg me to change you, to let you live."

Change me, hell no. He didn't want to become a monster.

A bleeding wrist was shoved to his mouth. No! He turned his head away, trying to spit the blood out. His weak hands trying to push the vampire away.

The vamp lunged for him, he grabbed his hair and jerked his head back. His red rimmed eyes staring down at him. His teeth ripped across his neck, but he couldn't scream.

Tears ran down his cheeks as the vampire drank from him. This was it, he's going to die. He's not even twenty-five yet, he'd just joined the force. He could feel the beating of his heart slow, then darkness. Complete, suffocating darkness.

******

"What do you think happened to him?" a man's voice, shaken.

"Don't know." a woman.

His body was lifted. Pushed. A door slammed. Silence. Two more doors slammed, then an engine was started.

"Had to be an animal right? There was so much blood." the man said.

Noah frowned. What happened. Is he dead? He tried to move but something was holding him. He groaned and tried again. But nothing happened.

"Help! Someone help!"

There was a screech of tires as the car came to a stop. Scrambling of feet before a set of doors was opened and the zipper of the bag he was in slid open. He sat up gasping for air. He looked up at the young blonde man before him, with wire rimmed glasses. He was also thin and gangly. Over his shoulder was a woman with short blonde hair and large brown eyes. He could feel the fast beating of her heart as she coward in fear. How can he hear that? It's probably his.

He shoved out of the bag, a damn body bag and leapt from the back of the ambulance. He soared ten feet into the air before landing on his feet with a thud. The woman let out a scream before falling down unconscious.
The man's face turns completely white as he paled staring at him. "W-what are you?"

His canines extended as the man's heartbeats filled his ears. And Noah realized he didn't survive the attack...

He hadn't survived at all.