![]() Vampire Detective Midnight
-- EXCERPT: He needed to feed. It was putting him in a foul mood. That, and all this fucking blood… Nick frowned, staring around at the alley floor. It hit him again. There was something wrong with this blood. It smelled too fucking good. It smelled way too fucking good. That couldn’t all be Nick’s hunger. “Anyway, that’s what I can tell you so far,” he said, making his voice deliberately casual. “Without knowing who the victims are, or what brought them to this alley, it’s pretty hard to speculate on motive, but…” Nick hesitated then, realizing something. Frowning, he stepped closer to the pools of blood. Nose wrinkling, he crouched down so he could smell it from closer, even though the scent was overpowering, even from a lot further away. Taking a few full whiffs, he felt his fangs begin to extend in earnest. That time, he couldn’t pull it back. A flush of heat hit his gut and chest, burning in his throat. It was intense enough, he almost got hard, but he’d gotten pretty good at squelching that reaction, too. He stood up at once. Really, he lurched back. It happened so fast, that smell and his reaction to it, Nick forgot to modulate his body’s natural reflexes to accommodate the people around him. He was up and moving in a heartbeat, darting back in pure instinct, without slowing his movements at all. He moved fast enough to make the humans around him freeze. Instantly, they turned into prey. Ignoring them, and ignoring their deer-in-headlights reactions to how he’d just moved, Nick backed away from the pool of blood with a scowl. He backed away from the human detectives and tech team, too. “They’re hybrids,” he said, emotion reaching his voice. He turned around, staring at the humans sharing the alley with him. The stared back at him, faces blank, eyes holding flickers of fear. Frustrated, wanting to smash through that frozen prey look, Nick let his voice turn into a harder growl. “Jesus fucking Christ,” Nick said. “Did you hear me? They’re all fucking hybrids.” When they still didn’t speak, he averted his gaze with a scowl. His eyes returned to the alley. Staring around at all of that blood, it sank in what it really represented. Once it had, he couldn’t help but feel sick. ![]()
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