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Sofia furrowed her brows "What’s going on, Derek?"

Her voice wasI couldn’t understand the sensations and e, but I knew that I had to gain back control of myself and end Sofia like I promised I have to do it or I will lose the woe toward Sofia when to my surprise, she pulled her hair back to expose one side of her neck to me "Why can’t you drink my blood? Did she tell you why?"

I couldn’t respond, because my eyes were already fixed on her neck and all I could think of was taking a bite Despite Eer’s blood coursing through ainst a wall and took a bite My claws came out I wanted to rip her heart out as I drank her blood

I was expecting her to whi for her life, to scream Instead, as I drank her blood and threatened to end her life, all Sofia did was hu tune I’d ever heard I felt her soft hands gently take hold of both of my wrists as she whispered, "Reht came to me, I knew immediately that it was a lie I knew this woman The feel of her blood inside me – the power that cah my whole system – all of it was too fa else around me

All that was left in my consciousness was Sofia and my determination to kill her

Chapter 39: Sofia

I knew frolazed look in his eyes He seeht at me and it was as if it was the first time he’d ever seen me

I knew Derek Novak He was the man of my dreams and it was clear that thebut a shadow of the original

I glared at Emilia What have you done to him? I then returned et hi I was a stranger to He was looking atfro a drink At thathis prey

I was surprised when Emilia told him that he wasn’t to drink my blood I fixedthrough you?

I was losing him and I knew it and I could tell just by the look on his face that he was about to do soret for the rest of his life I went by gut instinct and did what I kneould horrify my father

I pulled my hair back and offered myself to him as I had donehiive in I wanted hirasp Emilia had on him

I succeeded but I wasn’t prepared for what caer than he ever did before My breath got knocked out of me the moment my back hit the wall My shock hadn’t even worn off yet, when his teeth painfully sank intolike a mad woman for Derek to stop I could see the horror in her eyes when she saw Derek sink his teeth into an to move toward hied toward her to stop her

I saw a flash of delight in Emilia’s eyes and I quickly realized hen I felt the pointed end of Derek’s claws claw right over my heart I drew a breath when I realized what he was about to do I tried to think of words that would jolt hiirl he professed to love, the woman he swore to– the saain, the same one that I hu he would both sorely regret

Derek Novak was about to rip ed to finally breathe out tords, hoping that it was enough to bring hiet dizzy from the blood loss He’d never drunk so much ofwhat around me; it was a cacophony ofto kill her! Stop it!"

"He’s going to kill !"

"Hold E! Do it! Rip her heart out!"

Emilia threw herself behind Derek to try and keep hi more of my blood, but with one rowl before once again drinkingto helphow to react to Elimpse I had of him, I noticed that his eyes were pitch black instead of their norht blue

He was completely out-of-control and out of reach The other va me, but none of them could pry him off of me I knew the kind of effect my blood had on hian to welco I told him the first time I met him, when he had me in that same position, about to devour me: "You can control yourself Don’t do this to me" It was a bare whisper, but theand his claithdrew