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"Peter, why don’t you just bite me?" I asked breathlessly

"No," Peter responded hoarsely "That’s a horrible idea"

"No, Peter! Listen!" I walked over to hi my heart to beat harder and faster, so the sound would overwhelm him "I know you want to! You can just bite me, and this will all be over with I’ll be out of your lives forever, and I won’t even care And what do I even matter to you? I’m just another stupid weak hu to kill you" He tried to sound disgusted, but the hunger was at the back of his throat When he looked away frorabbed his arm and forced him to look down at me

"Please," I pleaded

He still resisted the idea, so I ree I bit , his eyes had widened For him, my scent and taste were irresistible

"You really want this?" Peter murmured huskily His eyes looked conflicted, both sad and ravenous "Do you even understand what you’re asking?"

"I know that I can’t live the rest of my life without you"

If my mind wasn’t an absolute ht have been able to handle things better Even ifthat I was incapable of surviving without Peter, it would still have been devastating

I truly planned to spend forever with Jack It’d be io aboutolder, sicker, dying, and trying to forget them I couldn’t do it, and I didn’t even want to try It hurt far too ivemore, I felt his lips pressed hotly on my neck, and then this sharp pain shot into me, like the prick of a needle It was quickly replaced by this wonderful, warh ine ever having felt pain

My body tre Ecstasy rippled through me, and I wanted this moment to last forever

Faintly, I became aware of hoeak I felt At first, it had just been because the pleasure had struck , I could feel , but there was nothing frightening or bad about it I felt oddly at peace, and I let myself succuhts were dissolving There were incoherent i, and Peter’s green eyes, and Jack’s laughter I thought of my brother, and I hoped he understood

Then there was nothing except the way I felt, buried underneath a wars felt empty