Chapter Three
As they lay together, Daniel's skin beaded with perspiration, but Monika oddly was cool to the touch, Daniel propped himself up on one elbow.
"Are you going to tell me what you want?" He sighed as if bored with her pretence.
"What do you mean?" Monika lay still, but Daniel could hear a sudden tension in her body.
"You don't fuck visiting researchers, do you?" he smiled, as she looked over at him.
"I fancied you, and you didn't disappoint." She attempted to change the course of the conversation, but Daniel gently brushed her jawline with his free hand.
"Well, thank you for the compliment but you will still need to answer my question, What do you want?" Daniel got onto his knees and Monika's propped herself on her elbows.
"Daniel, I don't know what you are saying?" She frowned. Daniel smiled, then took her by the throat with his right hand and held her there.
"Don't fucking lie to me, Monika!" His sudden violence caused an instant reaction in Monika. With unworldly strength, she brushed aside his hand and leapt to her feet, despite still being naked, she was not vulnerable. Her whole persona had morphed into a body tensed, poised for combat.
"Don't lay your hands upon me!" Her fingernails were as talons and her eyes were bright with adrenalin and her face contorted with cold rage.
"And now you show your true self!" He stood, also naked. Monika stood back, her hands dropped and her face relaxed to her normal visage.
"You tricked me!" She stood up straight. Her body released the coiled spring-like tension, "When did you know?" She snapped icily.
"Well, I didn't but you made a match for me and Elena and then you fucked me tonight, you must have had another agenda. You have been at my side since I arrived in Poland and while you convinced Elena that I would be the answer to her sexual dry spell, you had a golden opportunity to go through my research. I'm a secretive man by nature, and so I put a luminous dust on my laptop, papers and notebooks and you are covered with it."
" Very clever, I hadn't noticed the dust. That doesn't explain this, "She opened her palms, indicating her nakedness,"
"You are the most beautiful woman I have ever met, and not to have sex with you would have been a regret I would have carried to my grave. You're Vjesci, aren't you?" He sighed, and sat down again, suddenly uncomfortable with his nakedness, although Monika was quite comfortable.
Unexpectedly, she laughed as she also took her place on the blanket, "Yes, I am Vjesci. I am from a community that used to live in these mountains, but now are spread out across Europe, and we are not vampires!" She said coldly.