chapter sixteen

MATTEO RODRIGUEZ

Matteo Rodriguez has just gotten back from his morning exercise. His body dripped of sweat and smelt of fresh leaves and of woods. He marched straight to the fridge and grabbed a sachet of packaged blood. He tore it open with one bite and gulped the whole content at a go. He wheezed out air and hissed noisily with a squeezed face. There was nothing better than drinking human blood.

For some years now, the vampires have stayed hidden after been hunted down by the humans. Now they mostly fed on packaged blood gotten from animals. He feared he might not have been able to control the desire to taste a human blood if he had come in contact with one as he trained that morning as his recent craving for human blood had gotten quite desperate in the past few days.

Animal blood tastes like shit to him if not to all vampires. He was just about to head into the bathroom to wash up when the doorbell rang.

He groaned, turned to go get the door.

He peeped through the camera as he go