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I shook e butcher knife I couldn’t tell the last time anybody had used it, so I rinsed it off Then I realized I hadn’t washed off any of the fruit, either, so I grabbed it all and dropped it in the sink to clean

"Are you ainst the island with Matilda rubbing up against him so he could scratch her head

"No," I said, but that wasn’t exactly true "You and Milo could’ve taken that Jonathan idiot And I’m sure Jane would’ve followed you out of there We could’ve taken her if we really tried"

"Maybe," he admitted

I picked the fruit up out of the sink, but they et and slippery, and the grapes and strawberries tried ht as falling and helped me carry it back over to the island

"Thank you," I er yet

"If we had to kidnap Jane, what good would it have really done?" Jack looked at me "You watch that Intervention show about junkies What do they always say? You can’t e, and they can’t quit for anybody else Jane has to want to stop"

"Then why did we even go down there?" My hands felt shaky when I started chopping a pear, but I ignored it I couldn’t forget the ie of how sickly Jane looked, and how content she ith that

"I thought ed "But now she knows that you still care, and if she has a change of heart, she’ll talk to you"

"Jane’s never listened to , and you know it"

"Maybe so, but this is her choice, and you have to let her make it" He was on the other side of the island fro across it

My body was naturally pulled to him, and I pretended like pears and apricots wereUnfortunately, I’d never been a coordinated person, and I didn’t do hts of Jane, so it was only a er

I yelped and pulledmy first real injury as a vampire The pain was much sharper and more intense than any I had felt as a hu the bone in , I probably would’ve sliced the tip right off