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DAWN
What am I doing?
We share everything. Silas said that, but I didn’t think he was serious, and now … I don’t care. I feel like I’ve been drugged, as I did last night — calmer than I should be but deliciously so. I have all my faculties, I know I can say no … I just don’t want to. I’m on fire with need, a throbbing ache pulsing through my center and into my brain — it’s all I can feel. There is no fear, no pain. Only this.
I want them; both of them. There are vampires after us, but they don’t know where we are — they might track us once we get where we’re going, but here in these woods, I feel safe. And neither Silas nor Draynor would let Mikael’s group harm me.
Markula might.
But Markula isn’t here.
It’s cool beneath the trees, the brilliant sun transformed here into the da
