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My heart sped up a little, and Jack tookonly got worse, and I tried to think of sad things, like dead bunnies, to keep my appetite under wraps

Ezra went to the desk to pick up our tickets while Jack stood within the crowd Jack was unusually still, but that was forhe felt, so he tried to be caloing to have to go soon," I said, looking up at him sadly

"I know"

The crowds around us paused to stare Before, when I had been out with Jack in public, it drove me crazy the way everyone fawned all over hi a private moment in front of an audience

Jack touched, even for a short ti I could do I couldn’t live withto help Peter

Gently, he pressed his lips against h my skin He kept it soft and very PG, because I didn’t want to get out of control in a crowded airport Still, nothing eeter than his kisses, and I couldn’t help but wantto board soon," Ezra interrupted us, not unkindly "We need to get through baggage claims and security"

Reluctantly, I pulled myself from Jack His eyes locked on mine, and my heart screamed It’d just finally dawned on… that sounded unbearable

"I’ll take good care of her," Ezra proo

Ezra took my hand in his, partially to help coax me away from Jack and partially so he could keep tabs on me This was not the , and everyone knew that

Jack let go of h the crowds past the first set of metal detectors, my eyes never left Jack’s He just stood in the ic otten myself into when I became a vampire

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My transformation frolish language isn’t fit to describe it

My body died and ate itself My organs shifted around, feeling as ifsnakes that squir I was in a constant state of fevered deliriupain

It wasn’t until I finally drank blood for the first tian to take a turn for the better The pain subsided and was replaced by pleasure