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I ran toward her She held the knife up in a defensive position "I’ain"

"But--but Elyssa I love you" My voice sounded so broken and desperate that I hardly recognized it as my own

She clenched her teeth and screa monster!" Then she sla lot

I stood in the gathering dusk alone with my tears

Happy Birthday

Chapter 16

I stood rooted to the spot, agony ripping at ht faded and darkness took the sky I soet in I cried like a baby the entire way home Woht I was a monster And maybe I was Maybe she was a va about my condition except that it had caused ood I couldn’t beat up bullies I couldn’t protectI did backfired and hurt the people I cared about

I wasn’t even sure I had friends anymore What would Elyssa tell Ash and Nyte? She had known theyettingwas for sure I wasn’tElyssa’s parents on Sunday

Elyssa’s mother, Leia, popped into my mind I remembered her eyes Her violet eyes Just like Elyssa’s I didn’t have violet eyes My eyes did not glow that I knew of Or maybe they did and I just hadn’t looked into a ht ed violet-eyed people The Vas sofroht answers?

I walked inside my house Dad was nowhere to be found I had questions for hione? What in the hell was going on? I went into my room and locked the door I looked like a zombie Dirt caked my face Dried blood crusted my neck and a thin red line ran from the left side of my throat to my Adam’s apple I couldn’t believe Elyssa had done that tofroirlfriend--was a vampire ninja assassin The way she’d handled those swords during the tournament blew me away She knew her stuff

But I was still just as in the dark now as I’d been the day Stacey had attacked irlfriend was a va completely different What was it with me and supernatural chicks? I still didn’t knohat I was, but I knew for the most part what I wasn’t I wasn’t a vampire, a olf, or a leprechaun, to start with The list went on and on without helpingI’d read in paranormal novels had prepared row fangs, but I could seduce any woman in a heartbeat Correction: I could seduce any normal woman Apparently the supernatural ladies kne to defend the which I alternated between sobbing and moments of stoic silence This orse than allball of pain

Katie may have broken my heart in two, but Elyssa had shattered it

I was the perfect candidate for a soap opera acting career: Plenty of dra to allatat it without a clue as to why I’d sat down there in the first place I ran several searches and came up with hundreds of results--s who feasted on the souls of young girls Apparently, I was doomed with this curse I didn’t even knohat to call my symptoms I almost posted to WebMD:

Please help! I have this psychic sexual sense which letsfrom women Then I ravish them

Sincerely, Unintentional Molester

That sounded absolutely idiotic I scribbled hts furiously on a bit of paper The vapor as I called it was a sexual feeling thatfemales It had to be psychic like telepathy of some sort But I couldn’t read y A light bulb sparked on I was sensing sexual energy and bits of ey

I searched on those ter energy stones to their foreheads I also discovered every conceivable way to enlargeabout super strength combined with the ability to make women rip off their clothes I finally found a website that detailed hundreds of supernatural creatures including one that sounded like me--a dark faerie, one of the Unseelie, or evil faeries, that used its sexual lure to trap females while it drained thes didn’t add up Faeries were ancient, according to the website, immortal, and they didn’t have children So unless another evil faerie had done so to me and put me up for adoption, I didn’t kno I could possibly be one Deep down, I didn’t really want to adirly But at least it was a start<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>