22. Suck to live of suck to die

Time passed by and we still lived in our home in hymquarios. George had still problems with Xandros but they tolerated each other more by the day. We are here for almost two years and we had everyone fooled until now. Of course, we had neighbors who thought it was odd to have two cousins living so long with us but they never asked a thing about it. That's what I loved in the neighborhood we lived in, nobody asks questions to almost everyone. Deborah wouldn't be herself if she didn't gossip but things were fine for now.

Until a day later I looked at Xandros who I never had seen so pale in these months. Ok, we did put makeup on him for him to keep on looking human because if they had seen him like this they immediately knew. Today I stood with Xandros in our little bathroom with the foundation I had bought for him to put on his face and neck. Rubbing it in to look natural but he hated it. I saw him cringe when I touched his skin he was sick of being a human or acting like one. Blood was also hard to come at and every time he had to stir to blood types together what is still working out after two days and he looked again white.

"I can take this anymore Cara! I don't want to act anymore." He said by taking my wrist with my makeup sponge in. I looked up at him when he did something unexpected he kissed me on my neck. He hadn't kissed me in these years or even touched me like this.

I feel his warm breath on my skin and close my eyes, taken by the moment until I felt pain. The pain of him putting his teeth in my neck.

Shocked I pushed him off me with him still with my blood on his lips.

"What are you doing!" I screamed with him still looking in my neck where the two puncture wounds close.

"You tasted so good. I had forgotten how you tasted. I thought it would taste disgusting because you are also a vampire but you are not an ordinary vampire your like a hybrid kinda kind that can eat and feel full. You don't need as much blood as I do and now I can suck your blood and it not taste like a rotting fish."

I knew I was different but I didn't know he could still feed on me. I had thought it would indeed taste disgusting as Remus said to us a lot of times even Xandros had tried it before with other vampires. What made me so different? It is creepy how human I still can live, like he said I often need blood and if I suck I did not take much. I can run but not as fast as Xandros I can heal but not as fast they did. Only the bite mark disappeared faster than we thought.

"This is not good Xandros. You can't do this. This can't have concicutense having and what if you get sick or even die?"

He sighed and took my arms in his hands and stared at me like a drowning man that is trying to keep alive.

"Cleo if I don't try I will die. Nobody can save me as you can." He said with a raspy voice.

That's the first time he said my name. It must be really getting him as he calls me by my name. I don't know what to do.

When we are still staring at each other we got out of our enchantment by knocking on the door that he had left a couple of minutes before work.

He growled and took the sponge out of my hand and put fast makeup on and left the bathroom.

"Good day, George and Julius," I said waving at them, which made Xandros grin at me because he hated the fake name he was living under. Remus had called himself Carl which made Xandros first fight about it but he is of Italian blood and needed an Italian name. He had taken his name from his birth and change it to Julius. He was king and was not used to listening to anybody else. He had a hard time accepting this new name but he did after a while.

I sit back on the couch after cleaning the house looking at what series is on the tv until Remus comes in and is packing fastly.

"What happened? What's wrong?" I asked scared.

"I think we have been seen and there are searching for us."

That can't be the truth we live here for almost two years. Who would find out? He said nothing but just is packing our things. Saying it was just a precaution after all our baggage was laid in the right corner of the living room.

I felt the cold running back in my veins to have to run again. To be again away from my husband.

Xandros and George are coming home and looking at the bags on the ground. "Have they found us?" Xandros immediately asked Remus who said exactly the same to me as he did to Xandros.

Later on, that night when everyone was asleep I hear someone coming in who I smelled was Xandros. I could smell his cologne from far away and I would still recognize him.

"Please help me, Cleo."

Never would he tell me this if he didn't almost die, because of how proud he was. I put on the light on the night table and look straight at Xandros sitting on the bed. He looked so small and sick that I was scared to lose him. I didn't like him at first but he became my friend after the three years we had been together.

He came to me and seated on the bed, looking with blurry eyes at me as he couldn't see clearly again. If I didn't do anything he would be dead.

I did what I thought was best and took my nightgown off one shoulder and gave him my bare shoulder to bite in.

He took his teeth out like mine came out. Not as much as he did but it was a reflex I got when he bite me. I felt that familiar feeling of desire coming up and let me fall against the wood headboard of the bed and let him drink from me.

He hugged me and just sucked the blood out of me and I felt still great and desired and turned on by him. But what I was scared of the most was what will happen next. Would he be dead also because he ate from a vampire or would he be the old self I would recognize from last in the castle? Only time could tell.