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"Yeah, cause that’s a healthy way to express love! By killing another person!" I was purposely pushing his buttons If the only chance at a rescueoff without h to leaveto killas if he’d said toohow to take it back "Jack was in the house I kneas tuned in to your heart When I grabbed you in the kitchen, he ca the life from you, he wouldn’t hesitate to kill me" Tiredly, he exhaled "I kneas a better match for you than I was, and I didn’t see any other way out"

I was too stunned to say anything I’d always suspected Peter hatedto die for my happiness My heart thu say to hi at ain "I don’t knohy it’s so shocking that I wouldn’t want you to die Do you really think Ezra would be so willing to sacrifice himself for me if I was such a psychopath?"

"Peter, I ath of my voice

"Stop!" Peter repeated "Ezra is the one out there! We need to be worrying about him, not us! Because there isn’t even an ‘us’ to worry about!"

"You’re right" I shook hts about Peter

It was hard, though It changed the way I thought about everything All the ti in love with hiht was that Peter had tried to kill ht about it as his own suicide atteive ether, and he had truly loved me, but I had run off with his brother instead

Peter didn’t say anything, and neither did I I’ to come up with another plan, but I certainly couldn’t Part ofto, but I felt like all the wind had been knocked out offalling into it I looked to Peter, his eyes already fixed on the door Heme in case the lycan announced their entrance

When the door sloung open, ere greeted by so al worse than I could ever i His clothes, the saht before, were torn and dirty His skin was gaunt and pale He staggered into the room and Peter rushed to him

Bite marks covered his neck and wrists The lycan territory was nearly an hour drive away, plenty of time for a vampire to heal, but his bites were red and swollen Ezra had been so drained he didn’t have the strength to heal

"He needs to feed," Peter told me and atteet blood for Ezra, leaving le with the situation

I’d been frozen in shock, but I put my arm around Ezra and helped hilassy I’d never seen a vampire look so ill before It had never even occurred to me that they could even look like this, especially Ezra

When I sat down next to him on the bed, he collapsed back on the bed and rested his head on h with a painful desperation, like he needed to hang onto soht blood," Peter said when he walked back into the roo onto me, and pressed his lips into a thin line

"I can’t eat Not right now" Ezra gri

I brushed his hair fro cla would be the only thing that wouldon

The lycan had fed on hi vampires never let other va sexual about the exchanging of blood, but it was h me, and his love and kindness consumed me Ezra had been bitten by a pack of rabid h him now Physically and emotionally, they drained hiripped htly, that had I been huans Despite his weakness, his muscles felt like concrete underneath id, and his legs curled up a bit, closer to ed that

Flutter

"Just rest We don’t need to talk" I tried to reassure hih his blond hair

"No," Ezra said, his voice tight and weak "My blood for your blood It’s over We need to get out of here Peter, can you…"

"I’ll ements," Peter said when Ezra trailed off He tried to keep his composure asEzra had exchanged his own blood for Peter’s life

After areot his cell phone and startedcalls, most of which I couldn’t understand because they were in Finnish