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"She’s alright" I shrugged "Better than before Old sparks of who she was before have been coht to look after her"

He nodded "I know I just wanted to see her"

A sense of possessiveness cairl What business did he have checking on her?

"Did you know that Derek and Corrine suspect she ht be an immune just like Sofia?"

I was surprised by that piece of infor that Corrine, The Shade’s witch, was involved I couldn’t ignore the possibility that it could be true "Why would they think that?"

"We all sa Felix ith her He was madly in love with her I couldn’t understand how he could just get rid of her so suddenly Derek is assu her into a vampire He most likely tried, but she didn’t turn"

I looked up at Kyle, wondering why he was giving me that information It was the first real conversation I could re with hiuess he was faced with her mortality She probably wasn’t able to handle the effects that the foiled atteone insane because of this"

I sed hard before casting a concerned look at Anna "What do you mean?"

"Borys Maslen tried to turn Sofia into a vampire when she was nine years old"

I squared my shoulders in surprise I knew Sofia was an immune – everyone did, but I had no idea he had tried to turn her at such a young age

"Ever since then, she’s had heightened senses She was diagnosed with several disorders because of this Even Corrine mistook her as someone with some sort of disorder known as LLI, but now she suspects that perhaps it’s because, though she didn’t turn into a vahtened Maybe that’s why Anna went insane Corrine told h IQs could handle thatat theafter Anna over the past weeks I wanted to kno you would feel if Anna saw Corrine Perhaps the witch can help her cope with the heightened senses and hopefully get the Anna we re what he had shared with Anna that made her so dear to him I didn’t want to ask I didn’t want to knohat I was coht We could always be annoyed with the existence of each other, but aside fro toward each other: Respect

I realized that should Anna ever choose Kyle over me, it would breakthat he would take care of her

Kyle was definitely another reason for oodness still existed in The Shade

Every day of e life in The Shade had been a battle to stay alive I lost my father and my sister to a cave-in at The Catacoone in to save my sister He was my hero and I’d always felt a sense of pride over his bravery

For five years, it was just my mother and me I looked after her like I promised my father that I would, but in a place like The Shade, life was too fragile Myas a hairdresser at The Baths It was the winter season and though it never snowed in The Shade, that night was particularly cold She contracted a cough that she never quite recovered fros eak and none of us had any clue how she could possibly overcoo to work for s of The Cataco I was fourteen years old when I lost her and it felt like I had nobody left Then I met Anna

She was a year older than me and the moment I saw her, I knew that she was the most beautiful woman I’d ever laid eyes on It’d been a week since

Anna came to avea white rose in her hand, a rose as white as the dress she earing I reel She was so beautiful

I actually flinched when she approached I could alht She knelt on the ground beside me and laid the rose in front of esture of affection that no one in The Shade – not even my mother – had ever done for me before