Page 54 (1/2)

"I hope so" I pulled h I wasn’t cold anymore "Is Peter back?"

"Not yet But he will be soon"

"Jack said that I’m meant for Peter What does that ive y has set us up to be extreme loners, but at our core, emotionally, we’re very human We desire companionship, but ours has to be more selective" As he spoke, he kept one hand on the wheel, while the other one bobbed a silver ring over his fingers "Our blood is alnetized to our – for a lack of a better word – soul mates We feel it intrinsically e find each other"

"Is Mae your soul mate?" I asked quietly

"She is" His eyes had that faraway look again, and the corners of his htly "I lived 255 years before her, but now, I couldn’t ile day without her I even ‘dated’ before Irelationships That was part of the reason that I turned Peter I was desperately lonely, and he traveled around with me for awhile But then he ht I was Peter’s ‘mate’"

"I told you this was new for all of us," Ezra looked over at ether for only a brief time Maybe ten or twenty years He knows it to the exact day, but he never speaks of it"

"What happened?" I glanced out the , and I realized eren’t taking the norht, he wasn’t taking ?"

"I thought it would be better if the two of us had some time to talk before ent back" Ezra must have read the confusion on my face because he continued "Some of this would be better if Jack didn’t hear"

"Oh," I said Jack had , and he wasn’t kidding "So what happened with Peter?"

"Elise was killed" Ezra heardbroke out a over who had control over a certain area Vaain, so are huhtened versions of yourselves"

"So you’re saying that another vampire killed Elise?" My eyes ide, and he nodded

"It nearly destroyed Peter He went into a very dark period for awhile" A troubled expression went on Ezra’s face, and I didn’t want to knohat Peter had been through or what he had done

"He’s fought in every major war since WWI, up until this last excursion in the Middle East," Ezra continued "He had blood lust or a death wish, or so time, but he’s mostly coh"