"He was more than old enough to contact me. More than old enough to engage in cyber- sex with me."
No wonder Patrick was a little less than careful in getting to this meeting. He'd hoped the written word would become reality and wasn't particular about where. "But he's not old enough to die. That's what you intended, wasn't it?"
"Perhaps. It depends on whether he can live up to his claims."
Shirley had a feeling she wasn't talking about sexual prowess. "Tell me, why is a vampire trawling the Net for victims?"
"Why does any predator hunt? When you get as old as I am, it becomes such a tedious affair. Cyberspace is filled with lonely hearts desperate to find a mate, and it provides a whole new field in which to play." The woman smiled again.
It washed across the
moonlit darkness like a wave of ice. "I have become quite addicted to the test of luring quarry to my bait and slowly reeling them in."
