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"That night, when the vampires were after you, I felt it," Peter went on "It’s like a panic The fear and adrenaline you feel, I feel I can’t see anything, but it’s like phanto – I feel what you feel"

"Can you still?" I asked

"Not so , but that was a long tied It usually only lasts a few months, even when you care about someone a lot"

"So you just-"

I stopped cold and realized I knew exactly what Peter was talking about I’d been thinking that I hadn’t felt anything with Jack or Bobby, but they weren’t the only two people I’d bitten

I’d bitten Jane too

"Oh od" The color drained fro for a minute, and I could barely breathe

"Alice?" Peter put his hand on ht?"

"I felt Jane die"

"What?" Peter put his other hand onabout?"

"Jane, I bit her, when I saw her, and I knew I shouldn’t have, but then she went to rehab, and I thought everything was okay, I thought everything was better" My words came out rushed, and tears tumbled downmy back, but I don’t think it helped any

"Yeah, I bit her and-and then in Australia-" My breath caught in my throat

I remembered the terror I had felt when I woke up The panic and fear surging through hts, and my heart wanted to hammer out of my chest I had never felt that kind of intense fear before, and that’s how Jane felt That was Jane dying

"Remember?" I looked at Peter, his worried expression blurred through my tears "You came into the room, and I was freaked out, and I didn’t knohy, and I couldn’t shake it And I was mad that I felt that way! I was mad, and that was Jane!"

"No, Alice, you don’t know that was Jane" He tried to reassure