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"Yes, you are," Ezra nodded
I didn’t want to look over at Jack, but I could feel hi at hter, this time for my own support
My father was a vampire I’d been born with part of that virus insidemy blood, so I was drawn to vaht after me, too
What if that’s all my connection with Jack had ever been? Or Peter? Sootten before I was born Maybe I’d never really been bonded to either of the once, and I hadn’t thought much of it at the time, but now it played over and over in ht when I was stillto understand your ancestry, because you and Milo are both so unique I’ Maybe you weren’t meant for Peter Maybe you were justfaraway "We’re just aforward "Are you alright?"
"Yeah," I said nu did
"Are you sure?" Milo asked "All the color drained fro night" I tried to force a smile, but I knew it fell coive out under et some sleep"
"Do you need help?" Ezra asked, his brow furroith concern
"Nope" I shook my head "No I’m absolutely…" I trailed off I didn’t knohat I was
Milo got up and tried to help me, but I refused to let his out I couldn’t sort anything out anymore My brain barely worked
It was after one in the afternoon, and I had yet to sleep Last night had been the longest night of , we’d been attacked by vampire hunters, my boyfriend broke up with me, and I found out ered upstairs to the bedroom I shared with Jack, but I couldn’t let myself think about hie out of my clothes I just collapsed on the bed As I drifted off, I just kept hearing Mae’s words playing in ain
"We’re just athe steam from the mirror, I was surprised by how normal my reflection looked I felt like I’d been in a train wreck, even after a night’s sleep and a hot shower, but I looked just like I always did
The breakup hurt even worse I’d expected it to dull, the way the shock about Leif had, but it didn’t It throbbed painfully insidewound I hadn’t cried yet today, but I suspected that last night had coet Mae out of ht? What if I’d just been meant to be a vampire? If I’d never been meant for Jack or Peter, had I ever really loved either of theht about the fight with Jack last night, and iant vortex without him That desperation for him, because of him, that had to happen because I loved him I really and truly loved hirained in me so I’d become a vampire Could it?
Not that it mattered anymore how much I loved Jack or not He’d broken up with
"Jack!" I yelled I had a torapped around otten dressed yet When he walked in, I juhter
"What?" Jack asked, surprised by my attempts at modesty "It’s not like I haven’t seen you naked before"
"Yeah, well, you duet to see me naked anymore"
"You’re in et to see et dressed?"
He left the bathroom without further protests, and as soon as he shut the door behind hiainst the bathroom sink and tried to catch my breath I sed hard and told myself I could do this
"So, Alice, I just…" Jack said from the other side of the bathrooot dressed in a hurry because I wasn’t sure how long he would wait He tended to get i good Like he realized how unfair he was being last night Sure, I had lied to hi
With my hair still damp, I stepped out of the bathroom Jack stood by the end of his bed with his arms crossed over his chest, and he didn’t really look atclose to hi Not like butterflies, either It happened after I’d turned into a vampire, after we had a blood bond I could feel him, like a tether attached my heart to his Without any effort on my part, my body always naturally tilted to his My blood had beconetized to hi insideit too tightly for ether