Tainted Lust

Every time I browse through the shelves of a bookstore, I like to stop and see whatever new vampire romance book has been released. Nowadays, I don't see them as much. Werewolf and Mafia boss romance seem to have nearly taken over the shelves for now. It is honestly a nice change. No disrespect to the authors or readers, everyone is entitled to have their own likes and vices. But living the life I have, I could tell you from experience that none of them are ever even close to the real thing. Then again, the readers don't know that the “creatures of the night” actually do exist. If they did, then they'd be in for a rude awakening if they learned how vampires exist in real life and how they live. They'd actually be disappointed that we don't hunt down the pretty or innocent girls in the dead of night to be recruited into a sexy harem, or take in human lovers for ours, and their, pleasure. Most vampires actually detest how romanticized and sexualized they are in modern media. Others just hate humans in general. Despite being one myself, I do enjoy some novels that feature the idea of vampires existing secretly among humans and living peaceful lives. That's about the closest example I can get from books. The rest though, unfortunately that's where the fiction takes over. All thanks and praise are given to my ancestors who helped create the narrative of how vampires live, how we're ‘created’, and how we can be killed. Most of its fake, except for the stake through the heart, but then again, anything can be killed with that methodology. I do wonder where they got the garlic and mirrors idea from. It was pretty smart for the later generations as it essentially became a guidebook for younger vampires on how to exist among humans without raising suspicion. As the years turned into centuries though, the lore became a little more muddled, but that tends to happen when generations start to refer to vampires as nothing but fictional monsters created by people who couldn't understand science. Now that we live in the modern age of technology and science, living as a vampire is easy as hell. Blood can be bought, just like anything else, and with how expensive it is to live in America now, it's not that hard to stage blood drives with the promise of money or food to those in need of it. It's all a hustle, and immortals literally have eternity to find and perfect it in every way imaginable.