Forbidden Vampire

This is a Sci Fi Novella -- 33,206 words, 14 chapters.

Description:

An unusual vampire story. A man falls in love with a beautiful vampire, one of an elite breed that can live by day, but does not know what she is. After accidentally discovering her identify as she takes another victim, she runs away, and he struggles with what must be done. Finally he decides he must pursue her and thrust a dagger into her heart so no others will fall victim to her.

Excerpt:

I could get under the covers with her and taste her, smell her, feel her, and experience her full feminine womanhood. She was sweet, she was soft, she was loving, she was evil......

This decrepit structure seemed like a highly inappropriate place in which a thing of beauty would have to die, but she had chosen the place, not I, and I would do what I had to do to finally bring it to an end. Beauty is not a substitute for humanity and no being can truly live and love without its humanity. My soul would somehow summon up the courage to put out the life force of a beautiful creature that had no soul.........

My fingers dug in tighter around the dragon handle of the dagger and I pushed it against her chest a little harder. She took a deep breath as she felt the point against her chest. "Your idea of compassion escapes me Claudia. You relieved them of life," I said.

Then I pushed it again just a little harder and the point pierced her blouse and I felt the softness of her skin resist it, and once again she took another deep breath but she continued. "Life is what you define it to be," she said.