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I didn’t give a shit what Stellan wanted, but if I ran, he would chase me I hat they were really after, so maybe they would all follow me away They would leave Jane and Bobby behind for sure, since carrying hu with them would just be cumbersome, but maybe even Milo and Jack And even if they didn’t, it was the only plan I had

My head stopped hurting, but I still felt dazed I tried staggering to my feet, and ihed, so I tried again This tirass, I felloing to be awfully disappointed when he caughtas fast as I could If he hadn’t head butted ht’ve actually made it somewhere

I only made it about twenty feet before I felt hier attack would be His claws dug into my back, and then I was down, the wind knocked out ofin the watery snow and grass

When he finally let rass and dirt I tried to pushand the ground was too slippery

In the distance, I heard police sirens wailing It seemed very far in the distance, but that was becauseThe adrenaline and panic changeddifferent I wasn’t blacked out exactly, but I felt like I was fighting underneath water

Stellan laughed, and I felt the weight s, and I scra his fingers intoHis claws and fingers tore throughpain shot through ht hi ame his handful of flesh, and then disappeared

I tried to sit up and look down at , and it was then that I realized what he’d done The feh, and if severed, a human would bleed out in a very short time Unfortunately, it’s not that much different for va ive ot out of hand But I was scared as hell andout all over the ground, and I could feel it

When I bled as a human, it had never felt like this It was pressure and pain and weakening It was al sucked out of ht’ve noticed hi if I wasn’t so focused on the blood I heldgouge inMy hand wouldn’t cover it The blood just flowed out over it, and it was co too fast for me to heal

"Oh, hell, Alice"

"Where’s Milo?" I asked, andto stop the blood "Is he okay?"

"Yeah, he’s with Bobby They’re fine," Jack bit his lip and looked back over his shoulder "The lycan took off when the cops showed up We gotta get out of here before they find us"

After the lycan attack, dealing with the cops didn’t see like crazy They would take et very, very complicated, and I couldn’t handle that

The wound itself wasn’t deadly Or at least I didn’t think it was I tried to remember if vampires could die from blood loss I knew starvation could kill the ti underneath me, I had lost almost all the blood I had inup I had this weird painful sense of being deflated MyJack was saying toI could see had blurred completely into a red haze

I couldn’t feel actual bloodlust because I was too weak All the strength had seeped out of me, and it was replaced with some of theuntil Jack put his hand over my mouth I could smell and taste round see away A cold wind blew overThere was just the pain

I could s in I tried to et at the blood,violently, and I wondered dully if I was having a seizure

The world swayed and bowed around et his blood The pain was so excruciating that I would’ve killed anyone to make it stop

"Alice, drink" Jack’s voice inabout

I could smell hi quickly I wanted to drink it, but I couldn’t find it I couldn’t speak or ainston , I sunk th picked up, and I grabbed onto whoever I was drinking I pressed them closer to me and drank furtively