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Theodore

In all my thirty-seven years of life, I've only had time for one girlfriend, who later on became a burden to me. I knew that having a family of my own was dangerous when the Shoebox Murderer showed up at my front door ten years ago.

I catch people who've already lost it or are just pure evil. If they know I'm catching on to them, they either run or try to come for me.

The Shoebox Murder killed people and put body parts in shoeboxes before shipping them off anonymously. He was just a man who was mentally insane. He thought that killing people was his sacrifice to his 'shoe god' so he could get more shoes.

I don't know what happened there and I don't care. He showed up at my front door planning to kill me and whoever lived with me. At twenty-seven, it is entirely possible that I could have had a wife and two kids. A wife and two kids that could have died.

After that, coupled with the fact that I would be nowhere near a good detective without my unnatural power has made me bitter. I'm not afraid to admit it. It's not like going to both of your younger siblings' weddings without so much as a date is a happy life.

I just love my job more.

But then there's Stephanie. It was fun to annoy her, but she kept coming back. I think that's how I noticed how beautiful she was. She was always around, even when I hurt her feelings. She was determined to show me how capable she was.

She's also a dumbass.

That and the fact that her mind was in the gutters about me. It was amusing except for the daddy part. I'm no one's daddy. The only children I like are my nieces and nephews and my younger, twenty-year-old sister who acts like a child because she's seventeen years younger than me and fourteen years younger than A'raiya and Tobias.

I like Stephanie...I want to be with her, but when I come home after a suspicious phone call and she's disappeared with her phone on the floor, it makes me wonder if I could ever be with someone without their life being in danger.

Nothing was packed, but I wished it was, it would give me some assurance that she had left by herself, but no. She was here. I knew exactly who she was.

The neighbor, the one Stephanie was gushing about. I chuckled to myself. Did she really think I'd sit there and let her kill people around me?

I knew Stephanie was alive and I knew where she was, because not only was I deeply attracted to Stephanie, but I was also mated to her. Just as my mom was to my dad.

It's an annoying thing, the mating thing, but it is also helpful when your mate is specifically human. I will not let Stephanie die.

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Stephanie

I groaned, my eyes blurry as I tried to open them. The smell around me was bad and it instantly hit me when I woke up. I sat up, my eyes adjusting to the lighting–the dim lighting. Then I remember.

Ximena, my neighbor was the Housewife Murderer, she wasn't even human.

I involuntarily coughed. "Shit." I forced myself up and looked around. Ximena or whatever her name wasn't here yet and I wasn't planning on waiting for her. I had no idea where Theodore was but I knew he was going to come for me but I had to help myself.

I kept walking further and further away from where I woke up, I could barely see so I used the wall to help me. I didn't know why, maybe it was the adrenaline, but I felt no fear, just a need to get the fuck out of here.

Suddenly there was a huge pain in my abdomen, something that made blood uncontrollably flow from my mouth. "What...?"

I heard a giggle and then I saw her. "Where are you going?" She circled me, tsking. "Let me tell you a story, Stephanie. Something you probably wouldn't understand."

"What? You're going to kill me so you can be rich?" I said, panting when the bleeding stopped.

Ximena ignored me, still circling me. "I was turned into a vampire by force by a man I thought had loved me." Ximena laughed. "The thing about Vampires is that usually they are mated to humans because two vampires can not reproduce. This man lied to me about being mates and changed me into a vampire just to leave me for another human woman" She scoffed. "He didn't change her, he didn't mistreat her, instead they live happily ever after while I'm stuck undead."

I furrowed my brows. "Was it...Theodore?" I swallowed hard, scared of her answer.

"No." She shook her head. "Another man, but I vowed to take revenge on the vampire men with human wives. I always give them a chance. I tell them 'your husband is a vampire, just like me, leave him and I will spare you.' and only two women decided to follow through. Even after finding out their husband is a monster they still want to stay." Ximena rolled her eyes. "I knew it would be the same for you, but you guys came across another serial killer, Gage. I decided to have him do my dirty work."

"But it didn't work."

Ximena sighed. "He was too far gone to be an organized killer. Smart, yes, but more insane than the rest of us."

My body floated in the air and slammed against the wall so I was upright. I cried out from the pain, my heart pounding in fear, now I could. I mean, I was floating in the air.

"I'm going to give you one chance. You leave Theodore and I'll spare you and kill Theodore."

I shook my head. "No. You won't be killing anyone." I squeezed my eyes shut, hoping this would work. "Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done; on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil." Then I spit directly on her face, making her cheek sizzle.

She gasped, holding her cheek. "No!" She grabbed my throat and began to squeeze but I continued saying it in my head. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done; on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Spit.

Spit.

Spit.

It was little damage but it hurt because she flung me into a corner, screaming in agony. My theory was that I would pray and the holy water would be my saliva and it worked.

"You idiot!" She screamed and my insides began to squish together again like the last time but this time it was so painful. I screamed for my life. I've never been in so much pain. "Theodore!" I screamed before my mouth filled my blood.

I couldn't even breathe, I knew I was going to die when my life flashed before my eyes, darkness was rising up in my eyes and I couldn't stop it. I didn't want to die.

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