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In the end, it was er that saved le myself from his arms Either he didn’t hearon todown the sensitive skin of o of me, but I wasn’t stable onhim, my hair had somehow come free fro er and the intensity of kissing Peter leftdrunk I eak, and e to it, but that was from the bloodlust

"I can’t do that," I shook my head and my voice came out weak

"I’m sorry" Peter tried to catch his breath, but he wouldn’t look at ain, and I think he struggled just as badly To avoid temptation, he turned and walked out on the balcony

When he was gone, I grabbed onto the bed to keep fro away, but the bloodlust refused If I didn’t eat so A dark animal part of me threatened to surface, and I had to contain it

"Milo!" I shouted and stumbled out into the hallway I couldn’t take care of this on rowled, andon?" Milo came out of his bedroom, and I wanted to bite him Thankfully, Bobby didn’t follow out after hiod! Alice!"

"I need to eat! Now!" I fell tomy stomach My vision blurred even worse, and I could sout, and it scared the hell out ofon, Alice!" Milo put his arm around my waist, which really wasn’t the wisest move in the world His throat was co it out

I closednot to think of anything The pain was overwhel, and I moved stiffly, like a zombie It see The next thing I kneas in front of the fridge and Milo was handingwould be okay

The blood ran cold downheat spread over ood, but it wasn’t like it nor real pleasure, it was s in a very short amount of time, but I don’t remember much after that Almost the instant my thirst was quenched, I passed out

To makenext toat me with concern and adoration I had just kissed his brother, and he wassure that I was okay Admittedly, he didn’t know that I had kissed Peter, but that made it worse somehow

And better, too Because if he did know, there was a very good chance that he’d never want to talk to ain, and I wasn’t sure I could handle that

Once I assured Jack that I was okay, I insisted that I needed to take a long hot shower He tried to kisstoo much suspicion He’d be able to taste Peter on me, and the whole point of this was that he didn’t find out about that

The hot shower didn’t really fix things, although it did give ry had left ht of it now, the way his lips felt against mine, I wanted to kiss him still My skin flushed warm, and I turned the faucet so the water was even colder

Of course, I could never kiss Peter again Nobody could ever even find out about that I loved Jack, and I do mean really and truly loved him Whatever I felt for Peter had to be so s that I didn’t actually want, like when I was crazed and wanted to drink Milo’s blood or Bobby’s It wasn’t the sa to be with his for him at all… did I? I mean, I couldn’t Not when I loved Jack and I had done sothat I wanted… wasn’t it?

When I came out of the bathroom, the TV was turned on to shark show on the Discovery channel, and I don’t know if Jack was trying to be ironic or not Sharks were known to go into frenzy when they smelled blood, and apparently, so was I

Jack wasn’t really watching it, anyway Standing in front of a mirror on the side of the room, he had on Dickies shorts, skater socks, and a white dress shirt with a black tie around it He stared intently at the tie, struggling to knot it properly, but glanced back at the TV every ti?" Jack didn’t turn all the way around when I came out of the bathroom, but he looked at me with concern and a lopsided sht smile and walked over to him

I had put on my comfy pants and one of his tee shirts, as was hten soon, which ht away, I would be getting tired again pretty quickly

"You look better Showers are the answer for everything," he grinned, then turned back to staring at himself in the mirror