Ivy:
Fury washed through me, watching as the thing of bone fell to ash.
"Shadow Man!" I screamed, still holding onto his promise of what would happen if I spoke his name. Damon had saved me. But at what expense? I ran over to the ash pile and sifted through, looking for the man who had gotten so far under my skin.
Beneath the dust of the creature's hunger, he lay. The form he had shifted into was a thing unholy. Yet, I had never seen something so perfect. So… right. His shadows were whipping wildly around him, slicing my skin like razors. I didn't mind the burn. I could only think of him, of his breathless body, his burned skin, our first kiss… My first kiss.
"Damon," I whispered as his body turned to the same ash as the creature his one hit had vanquished. I screamed his name, thinkin
