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"What are you doing?"

She sighed "I was hoping his teeth would coainst his mouth"

"He needs to smell blood I bet" Chris pulled out a pocket knife "Here cut the bag"

She opened the knife, but paused "He needs so"

"What are you talking about?"

Madison pressed the knife to her wrist "Just trust ? No! Madison, don’t!" He reached out for the knife too late She nicked her wrist Blood began welling up in the area

"Nohat?" Chris asked

"I-"

Two strong hands clasped around her wrist, pulling her into the tub She fell on top of Ephraim Seconds later her wrist was in his mouth She felt two sharp points pierce her skin and tried to yank her arhtened painfully

She looked up to see Ephraim stare at her with fiery red eyes He looked pained

He watched in agony as Madison tried to pull away from him He couldn’t stop He couldn’t Blood lusthi to release her, but he couldn’t

The scent of her blood called hi until her blood rushed down his throat It was the sweetestflavor he’d ever experienced It was a thousand tiined it would be

"Let her go!" Chris yelled He brought down a stake aimed at Ephraim’s chest and Madison’s arm Ephraim’s hand shot out and pushed Chris away, hard He would have hit Madison’s ar

Ephrai to kill her He brushed his free hand down her cheeks before dropping his hand away

It hurt so much If felt like her arm was stuck in a powerful vacuu to feel light headed She closed her eyes, waiting for the darkness to come She heard a click and opened her eyes

Ephraiainst his chest He squeezed his eyes shut before he pulled the trigger The bullet pierced his skin and bone like a hot knife through butter, h his heart until it slaainst the tub Her arm fell away and she instinctively ed her limp body out of the tub seconds before a river of blood would have soaked her pants

Chapter 15

"Wakey, wakey," Chris’s taunting voice said

Ephraim opened his eyes and swore Chris stood at the end of his bed, holding his gun

"Put that down before you hurt yourself"

"Sure thing As soon as I know you won’t attack Madison again I’ll just go ahead and do that"

His head shot off the pillow He tried to sit up, but was pulled short by his arms "What the hell?" Both wrists were handcuffed to the iron frame of the bed Four pairs of cuffs attached to each hand "A little over kill, don’t you think?" He looked pointedly at the cuffs

"Oh, I would say that anyone that could shoot themselves in the heart and fully recover two hours later should be tied to the bed with as many handcuffs as we could find"

"Where’s Madison? Is she okay?"

"Youyourself and of course let’s not forget the blood loss? Yeah, she’s peachy"

"Chris, I’m not in the mood for this shit, tell estured towards the front of the house "After the gun went off, grandun you gave her for safety accidentally went off" He cocked his head to the side "By the way you’re in deep shit with Mrs Buckun"

"That’s the least of ht noouldn’t you say?"

"True, anyway Mrs Buckged Madison downstairs for a surprise birthday dinner But don’t worry I stayed and mended you to health when Grandma wouldn’t take no for an answer fro me and all that jazz"

"So, she’s okay?"

"Yup"

"Your mom left you?"

"Yup"