Legacy

Derek Crawford, an orphan who has lost everyone around him, finally found the love of his life, his soul mate, and for the first time ever he was happy. They had twelve wonderful years together, giving him a sense of purpose and making the world finally make sense after a life of constant loss. Then her body is found in a mall parking garage, having died from an apparent heart attack, and his world gets shattered, his beating heart ripped and stomped on by the specter of Death once more. Grief-striken, Derek is bed-ridden after the funeral, and snaps awake when he hears the sound of someone else in the room with him. Surprised beyond words to see his wife standing in the doorway to their bedroom, he jerks himself upright and utters a cry of relief; then she attacks him, overpowering his mind and body in an instant, her elongated canines brushing his neck, her hot breath becoming rapid as she prepares to feed.A team of vampire hunters show up and save his life, his mind reeling about what just happened, unable to convince himself that his wife was back from the dead and trying to kill him. After all, vampires don't exist, right?