Dreams for the Dead
“Tristan lay on his back in bed, on top of the covers. He’d lain like this often over the years, losing himself in dirty, gritty music to forget things he didn’t want to think about. Things he didn’t know he didn’t want to think about, like being a teenage joy killer, or a twenty-one-year-old guy who’d made every effort to avoid himself, or a brand-new vampire ripped in half with an insatiable hunger.
Coming to live with Loftus straight from the orphanage, he hadn’t known what to expect. Non...e of them had. Somehow they’d known it wouldn’t be good. Only Branek was excited, and he was the only one old enough to understand things the rest of them couldn’t yet grasp.
It soon became normal to see Loftus bringing home men and women. He would seduce them in various ways while the children watched from somewhere unseen. He wanted them to watch. He wanted them to see the manner in which he killed with his teeth, the way his dripping tongue lapped up the blood.MoreLess
Coming to live with Loftus straight from the orphanage, he hadn’t known what to expect. Non...e of them had. Somehow they’d known it wouldn’t be good. Only Branek was excited, and he was the only one old enough to understand things the rest of them couldn’t yet grasp.
It soon became normal to see Loftus bringing home men and women. He would seduce them in various ways while the children watched from somewhere unseen. He wanted them to watch. He wanted them to see the manner in which he killed with his teeth, the way his dripping tongue lapped up the blood.MoreLess
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