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“Aren’t you hot?” I asked placing my hand over my face to keep the sun out of my eyes.

“Nah, actually I’m cold. Our bodies don’t process heat the same way y’alls does. It takes a lot for us to feel hot.”

“Cause you aren’t alive right?”

“Basicallly,” He gave me a slick grin that quickly changed when my phone started to ring again. “Who is Dante?” Kenji made a sour expression when he said Dante’s name.

Call me crazy but Kenji sounded and looked like he was jealous and I liked it. It was my turn to tease him.

Snaking my neck from side to side I smartly replied. “My man and he’s probably looking for me. Vampire or not he’ll fuck you up about me.” I lied through my teeth.

I highly doubted Dante could handle Kenji in any shape or form when it came to fighting . Dante always said fighting was for ugly niggas. I told him that was sassy man behavior but he didn’t care what I thought. Kenji didn’t need to know any of that though.

“Oh yeah?” He laughed bitterly.

“Unhuh you might as well give me my phone back.” I said with my palm slightly extended out.

“How about you come get it?” Kenji calmly said. “You know I can’t come out in the sun. I might burn and turn into ashes.” His tone seemed unserious. I felt like he was fucking with me.

“I’m not coming up there Kenji so you can snatch me up. I’ll pass,” I scoffed at him, folding my arms across my chest defiantly.

“I mean I can wait. We don’t have much longer until nighttime.”

“Bullshit, I just woke up. It can’t be any later than one or two in the afternoon.”

“Nope, you had a long night last night. I guess those orgasms wore you out last night cause you slept the entire day away. It’s almost six in the evening.”

“You’re lying!” I said with wide-eyes.

There was no way I slept that late into the day. I didn’t sleep that late ever. Kenji had to be trying to trick me so I would come up to him.

“Come look at your phone,” He snickered, holding my phone out for me to grab.

I gave him a, be forreal, expression. Kenji smiled at me then said. “Matter a fact,” He gently tossed the phone almost. It landed in the dirt with a soft thud a couple of inches from my feet. I looked down at my phone debating if this was another one of Kenji’s tricks.

Cautiously I squatted down, keeping my eyes on Kenji. I picked my phone off the ground. The first thing I did was tap onto the screen and I be damned if the clock didn’t say 6:15 P.M. My eyes shot up to Kenji, who was cheesing at me. I couldn’t do anything but laugh. Kenji really fooled me. I thought I had the one up on him when this whole time he’s been playing me like a fiddle. I literally slept the entire day away now I was fucked. Kenji literally had me right where he wanted me. The sun would start to set in the next hour or so and Kenji would be able to move out in the open freely. Even if I took off walking, I wouldn’t make it far before Kenji would be able to catch up to me. There was no way I’d be able to get past Kenji to make it into the house. Even if I called Dante or Emberly they wouldn’t make it to me in time. Kenji really had my ass stuck outside like a sitting fucking duck.

“Quinny,” Kenji called to me in that silky smooth voice that made my coochie react against my own will. We locked eyes with each other, I could see his white eyes, filled with joy. He knew he had me cornered. “You know what you can do?”

“What?” I asked with my teeth clenched.

“Let me in, please.” He said those three words that made my heart drop into my stomach.

Chapter 9

Kenji Touré

If I wanted to I could easily walk off the porch to get Quinny. However, I was enjoying this little game we were playing. As I said before I was older, a lot older than I looked. Over the years I learned a lot of techniques and tricks to get around certain weaknesses. Garlic didn't affect me anymore. It might have taken 150 years of eating garlic everyday to stop it from hindering me but it was worth the work. Wooden stakes never had any effects on vampires either. I had no idea where humans came up with that shit. The only two things that could kill us were chopping our heads off and the sunlight. Even garlic only weakened us making it harder for us to heal and made it easier for our enemies to kill us.

Sunlight didn’t kill us the way humans made it seem. We didn’t burst out in flames then turn to ashes. It was more like a semi-slow death for us.The sun would dehydrate our bodies, until we were nothing but skin and bones then we’d turned to ashes. Not gonna lie that shit looked painful as fuck. Most vampires could last in the sun for a good twenty to thirty minutes before the sunrays started affecting them. Unless they’d had their soulmate even then you could last maybe one or two hours in the sun before you needed to go back in the dark.

Me on the other hand, I’d learned from my elders and the stories of the daywalkers. Vampires were so sensitive to the sun because we were taught to only come out at night. To stay in the shadows to keep our existence a secret. The very thing we learned to keep us safe was what made us weak.

The more you exposed your body to the sunrays the longer you could stay out during the day. A lot of vampires didn’t want to take the time out to train their bodies; they were just content with being out at night. I didn’t like to feel limited by what I could and couldn’t do. As soon as I heard about day walkers I made it my mission to figure out their ways. Day walkers exactly what their name sounded like vampires that could go out in the sun. There used to be an entire clan of Daywalkers who taught other vampires how to survive in the sun. They disappeared and from what I knew no one knew where they went too. The only thing the clan left behind were notes they weren't complete though. Enough for other vampires to try to copy them. Using what I’d learned from reading the Day Walkers Notes I’d conditioned my body to being in the sun for up to five hours. It had taken centuries for me to be able to accomplish this.

Quinny had a lot to learn about vampires but she was in luck because had the best teacher. I loved watching her squirm as she understood I played chess not checkers. Even more I loved how fucking good she looked in that little black dress she wore. I couldn’t wait until I could rip it from her body. The hardest part of this entire ordeal was not being able to have Quinny right now. If she was a vampire I would have had my dick buried inside of her by now. We would have been fucking all night instead of her running from me. Since my mate was a human she wasn’t used to allowing her natural instinct to guide her. It was cool though Quinny wasn’t going to last much longer. I could see it in her eyes, the fear she used to have was gone. Now when she looked at me there was desire, curiosity and longing. Quinny could lie all she wanted too but she was falling for me and I couldn’t wait to catch her pretty ass. All she had to do was give into that feeling and we’d both be happy.

“If I let you in, what does that mean exactly,” Quinny asked me curiously.