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"You mean how did I become a Pyte?"

"Yes"

"My father was a vanant withbirth to e with her It worked She lived and I lived"

"Did you co "I was a nore properly Until I was your age I looked like a sed?"

"I went into a co?"

"Aexactly as I do today" He looked at the handcuffs and smiled wryly "Actually I woke very much in the sa ayou can’t die"

"No"

‘That explains it"

"Explains what?"

"Why you shot yourself You knew you weren’t going to die so you did it Didn’t hurt you uessed

"Chris, it hurt very le h my skin, my breast bone, my heart and then when it stopped in my spine If I had been a human there would have been an instant death That pain wouldn’t have been felt Trust me when I tell you that I do not want to repeat that particular event again"

"But you passed out!"

"No, Chris, I didn’t My eyes one limp, but I was not entirely out of it I couldn’t focus on anything going on around es of bloodlust when I realized I was hurting her If I hadn’t reacted when I did, when I had some semblance of control, I would have been lost and Madison would have died"

"The blood lust keeps ht If I’ that will stop h me my body appeared to be shut down but my mind was kept in a haze I are of all the pain and the scent and taste of Madison’s blood Ti up still in bloodlust If I had I would be right now tearing through the house in search of her"

He sat down on the edge of the bed, taking in what Ephrai to hurt like that?"

"Yes"

"But you still did it"

"Yes"

"Why?"

"What do you mean why?"

"I h thatto hurt?"

"Because I was hurting Madison"

"Why didn’t you just let go? I know she said her blood was your weakness and all, but if you knew you were hurting her you could have let go"

"Not with bloodlust I couldn’t I wasn’t in control"

"But you were able to shoot yourself"

"I had to while I still had that little amount of control on my arm"

Chris looked at the bedroos? They were vaht?"

"Yes, they were afterforever is a plus too I suppose They wanted my blood and it killed them"

"So, that’s why you let them do it"

"Not so much as let them do it They trapped me"

"You hed, "I didn’t kiss anyone"

"Are you sure? It sure looked like that to me"

"Does she think I kissed her?"

Chris stood up and paced the room "Don’t know She wouldn’t tell me what she thinks happened"

"That would explain the handcuffs I suppose"