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I hope for her

Never to return

This verse alarms me more so than the first Two lines in particular, the second, “andand of biting” These are things that vampires do to huet, and they bite the distinctly sick, I push the notebook away froret this and crouch down to retrieve it, hoping I didn’t dae it

One loose page has fallen fro up is blank, but I can see the outline of a picture drawn in pencil on the other side For soo all shaky as I pick it up and I’m reluctant to turn it over I place it on the duvet, still blank side up, and fold htened to look at this sketch? The pit of e and fizzy as I raise ers over its surface

Slowly I turn it over and find that a close up of a woe in dark pencil Had Matthen this? Every feature is drawn in such detail, but that’s not what immediately catches s sticking out of the wo a mile a nise the face staring out at me Antonia

Then I re that Delilah mentioned casually that first time I’dto be donors That she would use her compulsion to force them to allow her to feed on them And Matthew had been one of her victims Oh God

Rage fills me to my very core If Antonia hadn’t preyed on Matthew then he would surely not have taken his own life He would not have lost his mind the way that he did I lie back onue about how I a to kill Antonia very slowly and very painfully the first chance I get

But ill I ever get a chance like that? Firstly I would have to get past her bodyguards, one of whom has sort of beco enough to take on a vampire like her

I feel like bashing ainst the wall in frustration It see before I even knew they existed Antonia is going to pay for what she did I’er and hate and notions of revenge and bideand it snaps me out of my inner turmoil

“Hello Rita,” I answer, a little too harshly, the build-up ofout in my words

“Jesus, so,” she replies in a snooty voice, though behind that she seems amused

“Actually I got out of bed on the right side, it’s what followed getting out of bed that pissed me off”

“Sounds bad, you want to talk about it?”

“No That’s okay, I’ll be fine What were you calling me about?”

A long sigh seems to escape her before she answers, “I’ve been at Gabriel’s allyou asked me to do”