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"I’lad you’re ho up against my touch

He leaned down and his lips rily, and pulling him to me The more I kissed him, the more he washed over me, and I needed him

I needed to love him and feel how s I’d been feeling, and Jack was the only one that could really ers in his hair, and he ainst my mouth He was surprised by my reaction, but it didn’t excite hier andskin

I stopped kissing hi, I put asped with surprise, but it quickly turned into a breathy moan He’d bitten me several times, but this was the first tiue, and the heat jolted through er than alcohol He burned down ers deeper in his flesh, digging theripped hi It was like I could read his soul, and his kindness and sincerity always stunned ood as he was, and it pushed away any negative feelings I had I could only feel hih me

My whole body pulsed in time with his heartbeat I could feel hih ht explode

Soh hi hiroaned with pleasure, but so was off

Al hierous level, and if I didn’t stop, I could kill hiht to unlatch ain, that darkness ebbing in and leaving bitter fear lingering onto asped for breath, and I’ now, or if he’d forgotten to breathe when I bit hi me, I felt his painful cold separation, but when I stopped biting hi of the sort I felt fuller than I ever had before, but in a really wonderful way Like I was complete, whole for the very first tilow The colors were so bright, they were almost painful to look at it My vision had a hazy, blurred quality around the edge, and I struggled to sit up Faintly, underneath that, I could feel weakness e his face, and his skin felt cold "Jack Are you alright?"

I listened, and I couldn’t hear his heartbeat I couldn’t hear anything or feel anything froht I’d killed him

Then Jack exhaled deeply, and his heart thudded

"Oh, ht you were dead"

"Not dead" He smiled crookedly "Just… you took a lot out of me"

"I’m sorry" My cheeks flushed with shame, or at least flushed more than they already were

"Don’t be I loved it" He let out a contented sigh "You’re so beautiful You’re glowing"

"That’s the blood loss talking," I shookto drink?"

"No Not yet I want to feel this I can still feel you in my veins, and I don’t want to lose that yet" He reached up, resting his palainst my cheek, and I leaned into it "I love you"

"I love you, too" I kissed his pal, but what h my hair, slow and weary

"I don’t know I just… I needed to I needed you" I snuggled up closer to him "I don’t knohat I’d do without you"

"Me neither" He kissed the top of my head "And let’s hope we never have to find out"

"We better not" I pressedthe chill that ran down my spine

"Don’t worry, Alice," he murether forever" I fell asleep in his arms and almost convinced myself that I believed hi, I found him crabbier than I’d ever seen him before With Jack, that didn’t mean the same as it would if it were me, but he snapped at me without just cause and yelled at Matilda I’ve never heard hi drained of blood did not sit ith hi only the pair of boxers he’d slept in I ads of blood within three minutes, and Matilda and I waited on the other side of the roootten his te up an ee "I didn’t mean to be so… you know"