Rico could not believe he was sitting on his bed talking to this woman about his life.  Rico had never told anyone about his life before because he never bothered to let anyone get too close to him in this manner.  Of course he had what people would call lovers, but all they were to him was someone to sexual appease him when he required it.  But until now he had never had a woman that had that pull towards him.  Besides how many humans want to keep house with a vampire for an extended period of time.   Yes he had practically told her she didn’t have a choice, but she really did, she had all the power.<br/><br/>“It was hard at first, but I knew it was my responsibility to take care of my mother and younger siblings.”  Rico said lost in his memories as he continued to stroke her hair and back.  Rico laughed a little at the thought of manual labor and had to admit he swore he would never be that way again.  “I swore that one day I would never have to work that hard again.  It was very hard back then, people in this day and age have no idea what hard work is.”  Rico stated<br/><br/>Rico was still thinking of everything that he had gone thru back then and was so glad that he did not have to go through and of those things again.  “Everything was going really well until I reached the age of 25 and that was when everything changed in my life.”<br/><br/>Rico was remembering being in town and a group of pirates had come to town to pillage and plunder everything and had attacked anyone that tried to get in their way.  He was defending his mother, that’s all he was doing.  “All I wanted to do was protect my family from pirates and I couldn’t even do that.  I had to watch them die and then was left for dead myself.”  Rico said as he caught a tear rolling down his face.  “Until Randolph came into the picture.”