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spreading. “Hardly. Think darker.” His voice was still deep velvet. How could she like that tone when she was so uncomfortable with his presence in her kitchen?
    She looked at him as she decided she was having some kind of a trick or stunt pulled on her. She did not have enough to be robbed. She had checked out her designs for the last six months and nothing was there. She thought about her friend Terrie. What had she said? You know, I really don’t remember. And the first guy had acted as if she should do as he wanted just by looking at her. What were these guys? The guy turned to dust. She knew he did, she saw it. What did the guys in the chat room say? No, there was no such thing as Vampires and this guy could go out in broad daylight.
    “You are close to figuring it out.” He was watching her face as he spoke.
    The doorbell rang. She jumped off the stool but he was around the bar and at the door before she had made a step. He looked back at her holding up his hand, one finger at his lips. He opened the door and the usual salesman type was there. “Hello, sir, we have a great deal on books today. I wonder if I could come in and tell you all about it.”
    Rad looked at the man and the man quit talking. “No, and you will tell everyone that this is a house not to be bothered anymore. It is a good house but terrible things will happen to anyone who disturbs it in the future. Don’t you agree?”
    “Yes, of course, I will leave right now and spread the word. Thank you so much.” He practically ran down the sidewalk. She slowly sat back down on the stool as she watched the whole scene play out. The big man closed the door by leaning back against it.
    “Do you know what I did to that man?” He asked the question as if he expected an answer.
    She cleared her throat before she could speak. “You did some sort of hypnotism or mind control. You did it to my friend Terrie, didn’t you?” He nodded his head. She was afraid to ask but had to. “Have you done it to me?”
    He looked at her from the distance of the room as he continued to lean against the door. “It is one of the reasons why I am here to protect you. My kind can do it to most humans in some degree or another, that is, most humans except you. Now don’t get in a panic. We aren’t going to have a contest to see if anyone can influence you. I just find it interesting that I can’t.”
    She sat back on the stool. She realized that she still had half a sandwich in her hand, but she had not taken a bite. She didn’t know what to do with the sandwich, but she didn’t want it. She didn’t want to be in this room. She didn’t want to think about this problem. Very quietly she finally said. “You are trying to tell me that there are really Vampires?”
    “Yes.” He watched her very closely. “You aren’t going to get hysterical on me are you?”
    She took a deep breath. “And you are supposed to be one? Are you going to kill me by drinking my blood? Isn’t that what, oh damn, whatever you are, isn’t that what you do to people?”
    “Look, I think you are going to need some more proof. I can feel some real hesitation from you.” He stood up and took a step towards her, but she pushed back against the stool. The sandwich fell to the floor.
    She felt her brain began to work. She had let a psycho into her house. She had invited him in. She had let him make her a sandwich. She looked around but couldn’t remember where she had put her cell. She saw a movement from him and her eyes returned to him as he brought something from his pocket. He held it up, and it was her cell.
    “We are going for a little ride.”
    She just sat and looked at him as if he was out of his mind. Which was exactly what she had decided he was. He walked across the room in several large steps and grabbed her arm. Again she felt his strong cold grip. Effortlessly he pulled her up and they were moving out of the house towards the low silver car.
    “Oh God, wait.” She tried to