She focused on the stillness inside her. Though her heart fluttered, she felt something else, a strong presence of calm. She had been here before. She did not remember, of course. Alex's words ringing in her ear, 'You can do this.'
Vienna clenched her fists together and thought about the pond, the way it had looked like smooth glass in the moonlight, calm and quiet but also powerful and yet mysterious underneath. She pictured her brain like that, with ripples within. She reached out with her mind's eye to the vampire in front of her. 'Erase my memory. Forget me, forget me. Erase my memory.' She kept on repeating these words a few more times.
When she opened her eyes, Nicholas was staring at her blankly. "Mr. Nicholas?" She gazed down at him, but his eyes were vacant. "I did it! I think
