Red Moon ~ Chapter 16 ~ Crazy Moments and Unforgettable Times

Chapter 16: Crazy Moments and Unforgettable Times

“Hey! I thought you had to go,” Cole said with a slight smirk as I walked in the slightly ajar door.

I smiled. “I decided to come back.”

I sat next to him. He was about to hug me but I stopped him.

“Hey… can we take it easy? I want to get to know you first… You know? Tell me some things about you and then we will see,” I said as he slowly pulled his hands away with such a hurt look on his face.

Way to go Eshe! Could you be any harsher! Really! You don’t want to push him away, just get to know him a little better. Idiot!

“Okay, I am sorry,” he said as he looked at his hands that were now sitting on his lap. “You are right; I should have taken it a little slower. I wasn’t thinking clearly.”

“I am sorry too. I did not mean to sound so harsh. This is all new for me. Will you tell me about you? About your life? Where you were before the Volturi brought you here?” I asked shyly as I finally allowed our eyes to meet again and let out a slight gasp. 

“I will. I promise. Just, not now. I can’t. But I will do that. Soon. Is that okay with you? This is all new for me too,” he said with a slight chuckle at my reaction.

I nodded in understanding. “Okay. But don’t forget, you promised.”

“I will keep my word, Eshe. You may not know me that well, but one thing you can know for certain, my word is my bond; the one thing I alone have control over and I don’t take it lightly,” he said with a troubled look on his face. I couldn’t resist and I reached up to stroke his cheek. He trembled at my touch. 

Yeah, my resolve lasted about 2 seconds. I couldn’t help myself. He looked so sad and sweet that I had to touch him. His face is so warm and his eyes… his eyes are…

Cough. Melanie came in and interrupted us.

“What are you two doing here alone? Come on! We are all having so much fun!” she exclaimed as she grabbed my hand and started to pull me off the couch.

That made me curious. I got up and followed her, pulling Cole’s hand to follow me as Melanie pulled on my hand. They were all in the garden. They were jumping up and down like crazy. I took a better look at what was going on. Dawn threw Phillip an orange and he hit it with a branch. From the power, the orange splashed everyone with juices and the branch broke in two. They both fell on the ground laughing.

“Hey, guys, what are you doing?” I asked smiling at them.

Nessie appeared out of the nowhere giggling every time she turned to look at Dawn or Phillip.

“I –” she giggled. “I told them I used to play –” giggled again, “baseball with my family! And Dawn and Phillip are looking for a decent ball and a bat to play! But for now… they are using a tree branch and fruit!” she started laughing and bending over holding her stomach while trying to talk.

“Apples, peaches and oranges are definitely not good balls!” Dawn said while she was laughing on the ground rolling around.

“I have seen some nice watermelons over there, should we try?” Phillip said and smirked.

“No! No, no way will I throw you a watermelon!” I laughed with them.

“Well, I can throw you the watermelon and you’ll try to hit it!” Phillip said, making me laugh even harder.

“Okay, baseball isn’t something we can play in here… I admit it was a lousy idea… but so much fun trying.” Nessie admitted but she looked like she enjoyed it while it lasted.

“Can’t we ask Aro for a ball and a bat or something?” I asked. Everyone looked at me like I just killed their pet bunny or something… “What? I just asked!”

“I know! I know! We will play hide and seek!” Melanie said and clapped her hands together. She looked so sweet; you couldn’t refuse her anything at the moment.

“Okay! Who will close their eyes and count first?” Nessie asked looking around the courtyard at us all.

“Can I play too?” Jacob asked as he walked over and put his arm around Nessie’s waist and she leaned her head on his shoulder.

Look at those two! I want to be able to do that. Why am I fighting this with Cole so hard? He really is so sweet and cute and those eyes……brain to mush alert! Eshe… you have to get to know him girlfriend…

“Okay, you close your eyes and count to thirty! No cheating!” Dawn said playfully and I was pulled from my thoughts as she talked to Jake.

He kissed Ness on the cheek and then turned his back at us, placed his hands on his eyes and leaned against a tree. “One… two… three…”

Instantly Melanie blinked and disappeared somewhere in the garden I suppose. Phillip went behind a bench while Cole and I went behind that tree we were sitting under earlier in the morning.

Nessie was behind an apple tree, which was smart since I could catch her scent faintly, mixed with green apples.

Dawn had sat behind a tall bush, between many flowers, her skin and hair color blending with the dust on the ground.

“Twenty eight… Twenty nine… Thirty!” Jacob turned and headed for Dawn’s hiding place.

“Gotcha!” He ran back to the tree but Dawn was there first. She stuck her tongue at him. He did the same. He headed to our direction. I stretched to take a peek and see where he was and he saw my hair. Before we could move, he was by the tree.

“Eshe, Cole, I found you!” We walked over to Dawn to wait on the others.

 He went near Nessie but in the meantime, Phillip got out and reached the tree.

“Agh! I hadn’t even smelled you!” Jake groaned. He turned again towards Ness; she looked at him, gave him a quick kiss on the mouth and ran to the tree. She giggled.

“That is cheating!” he scolded and then he started tickling her.

We were all laughing. “Now only little Melanie is left! Melanie! Where are you little one?” he was walking around the trees and looking behind them. Melanie suddenly appeared in front of us while Jacob had his head turned, smiled, blinked and she was on a branch right over Jake’s head. She jumped on his shoulders and he stretched his neck to look at her.

 “There you are you, little monster!” he joked. She smiled at him as sweetly she had to us and blinked again. She was out of sight again.

“Come and find me!” her high, sweet voice called. We all looked for her, having no idea where to start looking first.

“Ha ha ha! I beat you all!” She laughed standing next to the tree smiling from ear to ear.

“Who wants another round?” Dawn asked eyeing us all.

“I’m counting this time!” I offered.

The whole day passed like that, we were playing hide and seek like little children and Melanie teleporting every time we found her and beating us, but we did not care. That girl is something else…

Cole, Ness, Melanie and I ate some pasta Gianna had cooked us while Dawn and Phillip accepted Aro’s silver cups, which I thought that was really gross but preferred not to mention it aloud.

Later, Dawn had seen my look and explained that Nahuel and her other sisters were drinking human blood as well. I thought about Phillip. It was absolutely logical to drink human blood as well because he had grown up with a coven of vampires, who apparently didn’t find anything wrong with killing innocent people.

After that, we played chase for a little while before putting little Melanie to sleep. The others seemed familiar with her room but I was surprised when I first walked in. It was really light with coral and orange fabrics all over the place. Her bed had a canopy that was a crisp white over it and with ribbons wrapped around it. Everything was kind of smaller, I guess this room was tailor made for little Melanie. Something that also impressed me was the huge collection of porcelain dolls in here. There were so many, each of them unique. Different hair color, different haircut, different dresses… And also her bathroom looked great. It was outfitted in white marble with coral-colored details. The sink was the thing that caught my attention instantly. The foot of it was a perfectly shaped mermaid made out of marble and the tap was bronze. Melanie ignored the amazing room and quickly sunk into a deep slumber. We exited the room quietly and closed the door behind us.

While running through the corridor, I almost fell on Demetri who had come to check on us and looked at us, perfectly disciplined and even shocked that we had the nerve to run around like little children.

(Okay, I felt it was weird too, the Volturi could kill us if they wanted but whatever…)

Dawn went to greet him, told him we were fine and that he could leave using the most hypnotizing voice she could and he went away like he was a puppy ordered by his master. Maybe her voice wasn’t strong enough to affect the ancients but Demetri could literally bend under Dawn’s will. Poor Demetri… I wouldn’t want to be in his shoes...

We spent the rest of the time in mine and Nessie’s room; making a circle by the way we were sitting all Indian style. Ness was trapped in Jacob’s lap and hands (not that she didn’t like it).

Cole had sat next to me and he was coming closer to me whenever he had the chance. I ignored him, not that I didn’t like it too, but I was the one who asked him to take it easy… I really am wondering how my dad would react when he found out I may have a boyfriend… Well to find out I have a boyfriend he must see me first… alive, I guess… and I would have to admit that Cole was my boyfriend. 

How did I get involved in all that? I guess it’s better to fear you will get old too soon and die before you manage to enjoy your life than being kidnapped by a bunch of creepy, ancient, wicked vampires… Phillip suggested we’d make a plan to escape the Volturi, something that at first excited us all and then we all realized it was pure madness to try this…

He didn’t say much after Dawn made a point of how crazy this was and brought him crashing back to reality.  He seemed hurt and he left shortly after that.

“I don’t think it is that crazy… If we come up with a really good plan, who knows, it may work!” I said after a while, breaking the silence and attracting all the attention. They looked at me like I said the most bizarre thing ever being told. Well maybe I did, but it gave me much more confidence. “Why are you looking at me like that? We can!” I said, sounding way much more confident than I was. “Cole, you know so many things about this place and the guard.  Dawn, you can manipulate some of the vampires here, really, with just a word. I saw you doing it! We can fool them!” I said and suddenly stopped to observe each of them and blushing, feeling everyone’s eyes on me.

“Hmm… You may have a point Eshe…” Cole said actually thinking about what I said. Jake, Nessie and Dawn seemed to examine this option too, looking at it like a possibility for the first time.

“Who will make the plan though?” Dawn asked bringing us back to reality once more.

“Um… Jake? You are an Alpha… What would you do if we were your pack?” Nessie said, really hoping Jacob would have an idea.

He looked into the air as if he was concentrating hard and thinking. “First, I’d try to contact someone who could help from the outside…”

“This wouldn’t work. You can’t speak with your own pack and we have no phone. So… next idea?” I interrupted him.

“Then, I would learn about all of the possible exits, secret passages and in general any possible ways out.” Jake continued. Nessie turned her head and kissed his cheek then snuggled against his chest.

I so want to be closer to Cole right now. Maybe just a little??

“Easy! I know the exits of the ‘Volturi Palace’ near the places I have been. At least the ones that have been used in the past. But you can be sure almost all are being guarded or they have collapsed with the passing of the years…” Cole answered and then looked at me questioningly as he noticed I had scooted a little closer to him. He smiled.

“Almost all?” I asked as I returned his smile. “So there is possibly an unguarded exit?”

“Yes. Aro doesn’t know its existence and the only one who knows about it totally ignores it,” he continued.

“Who is he?” Renesmee asked curiously.

“Marcus,” Cole whispered.

“Marcus? The other black-haired vampire with the zombie-like face who NEVER smiles?” I said, not being able to describe him in any other way.

He made a little nod and chuckled. “Yep, that’s him.”

“He looked nothing more than decorative to me…” Jacob said. “Aro keeps him for his power but he doesn’t care for much anymore. Edward said he has been this way for more than a century,” Jacob commented.

“Yeah, I know. He’s like than much longer than for the last one hundred years you know… he’s like that since his mate, Didyme, died,” Cole said with a sad face.

“Isn’t she one of the wives who was killed in a battle?” Nessie asked, making me feel like I was from a completely other planet. I had no idea what they were talking about.

“She and Marcus were engaged, but were never able to marry. She was killed, but not in battle. That is the public story. The one most vampires, including Marcus know… The real story is far different from that one. If Marcus only knew…” Cole explained.

The others looked just as clueless as I did, which made me feel less out of this discussion. Seeing this, and with a smile of satisfaction, Cole started telling the story:

“First you need to know Didyme was Aro’s baby sister and he was the one who turned her into a vampire… After realizing his power and how talented he was; he with Marcus, Caius and some loyal followers started creating what now are the infamous Volturi and their guard. So, he wanted of course to add some of his own blood to his coven, hoping his sister would have some special gift, like he did. Didyme turned out to have a power, one that was affecting the others around her a lot. She was constantly carrying an aura of happiness with her that actually pretty much messed up with the emotions of the others around her and made them happy.”

At this point the description of Didyme reminded me of the image of a fairy making everyone happy, which made me giggle. This was ridiculous…

“Anyway…” Cole said looking at me puzzled, but ignoring my ‘for-no-obvious-reason’ giggling.

“Her gift caused many people to fall in love with her, Marcus included. The difference with him was that she fell in love with him as well. They were pretty happy with each other and some centuries later they no longer shared Aro’s interest for world domination and his lust for power. They wanted to go away and live on their own. Aro, making the mistake of pretending being happy with their union and giving his blessing to finally marry and leave, had no choice but to let them go. But he didn’t want to lose Marcus and his gift from his collection, so he did what he had to do. He killed Didyme, shortly before it was planned that the couple would marry and leave the coven, Aro had one last mission.  While going to make a trial for an immortal infant, there was a fight between the coven protecting the infant and the Volturi. During the fight, Aro killed Didyme and the story everyone knows is this… His loving sister was killed in the battle. Marcus was devastated and has lived totally uninterested in everything and has acted zombie-like since then.”

“That is such a sad story…” Nessie said snuggling even closer in Jacob’s embrace to make herself more comfortable.

“Yeah…” Dawn and I agreed.

“This Aro guy is such a freaking monster,” Jacob said as he squeezed Nessie protectively.

“What does all this have to do with the exit from here?” I asked, remembering where this discussion had started from.

“Before Marcus and Didyme made known in public that they are together for fear of what Aro would think, they used to see each other in secret. They had created a secret passage that leads from Marcus chamber to Didyme’s and the wives’ tower is really close to the ground. We can run from there to the outside, we just need to reach Marcus’ chamber unseen,” Cole finished explaining.

“This sounds way too easy,” Dawn said with a snarky tone.  

“Marcus, as well as Aro’s and Caius’s rooms are guarded all the time. We have to come up with a good-” Cole stopped “-no, perfect plan, if we want to get out of here… alive.”

At that moment, I felt fear, not mine but suddenly it was all over me, overtaking me and awful images of all of us in little pieces here and there and bloody floors and…

“What’s happening?” Phillip asked, the fear I was feeling reflected on his eyes.

“I thought you had left,” Dawn pointed out, her voice sounded shaky for the first time.

“Something is wrong. I was reading a book and suddenly felt scared and saw horrible images that definitely had nothing to do with my book,” Phillip explained.

“You what?!” Nessie asked, blushing (no idea why) and giving him a guilty look.

“You did that?” Phillip asked this time staring right into Nessie’s brown eyes with his own grey ones. Jacob, feeling the tension radiating from Ness stiffened next to her and growled.

Everybody else looked at them with the same lost look, just like I did. At least I wasn’t alone…

“I didn’t do it! You must be reading minds or something!” Nessie snapped at him finally.

He shook his head. “You did it.”

“But I can’t. I have to be touching you,” she said confused.

“Powers develop, change. You have been through a huge change and this may caused this progression and enhancement to your gift to speed up a little,” he tried to explain.

“Can you two explain to us what happened?” Dawn asked, a little pissed for being left out.

“Nessie projected her thoughts to me. She was scared and imagined us… dead and I saw it… every detail she imagined,” he told us. 

“All of us saw,” Cole chimed in.

I made a mental note to ask him how he knew that I did see it too and stared at Renesmee in awe.

“Wow. Really? Congrats, Ness!” I said, although I really would appreciate if she hadn’t projected to me these certain thoughts.

“I think we should all get some rest. We can talk about it later,” Cole said as if a little off kilter as well.

All of us agreed and the others started to head sleepily to their rooms. Jacob was still holding Nessie, not trying to hide he would love some time alone with her and I remembered that I had to ask Cole something.

“Um… I… I have to go do something I just remembered… It won’t take too long- Eeesh! Guys are you two paying any attention to me?” I asked while Jake and Ness, totally ignoring me, started kissing.

“Hello?” No response. “Anyway… I’ll be back in a little…”

Stupid lovebirds… get a room… by yourself BEFORE making out… gosh!

I left the room, angry they pretended to ignore me and… Okay, I admit. A little jealous. As I was about to open Cole’s door, he turned out to be already opening it as if he knew I was there, making me almost fall on him.

“Hey!” I said nervously, not really expecting him to be that close to the door. Like I was planning on making a ‘big entrance or something…’

“Hi, Eshe. What are you doing here?” He acted innocent while his ice blue eyes were examining me.

“How did you know it was me?” I blurted, tired of this game he seemed to be playing.

“When?” He raised a brow, not giving an inch.

“Before… you said ‘we all saw’ like you knew what the others saw and now you were at the door and didn’t look surprised it was me,” I said, again, without thinking much and completely agitated.

His mouth changed into a sweet, perfect smile. “I saw your eyes.”

“What?” I growled. Yes, growled.

“The first time. I saw your eyes. They mirrored Nessie’s fear. You are an open book you know. I can read you ridiculously easy,” he said, his smile growing wider.

 “And the second time, I caught your scent. I could have recognized it even if I hadn’t seen you for years. It is part of me now, as much as you are,” he said without dropping his eyes this time.

I blushed and lowered my head a little, but couldn’t help myself and smiled.

“Really? And how do I smell?” I asked leaning a little closer teasingly.

“Uniquely. Like nothing and anyone else I have ever encountered… You smell like vanilla and chocolate… sweet… but with a hint of freshly cut wood making you smell perfect,” he finished, his voice husky and sexy, full of emotion and dang irresistible.

Our eyes locked and we stared. And stared. And stared. It could have been ages, or just seconds, to me it didn’t matter. All that mattered was that he and I were here, alone once again.

After some time, that seemed like eternity to me, he leaned down close to me and our lips met. Every thought that was inside my head flew away and all I could think about was him and his intoxicating scent. His lips moved passionately against mine, but softly and slowly. Waves of heat ran through my body and I felt like I would explode.

I had never felt like this in my life.  I was scared but I also felt such fire and trust. Yes, trust if you can believe that.  I suddenly realized that I trusted him with all my heart and soul. 

I pushed him inside, closing the door behind me, our mouths never parting. He wrapped his hands around my waist, pulling me closer to him and deepening the kiss. I felt his breath heavy, longing yet hesitating, but neither of us would stop or wanted to for that matter.

Finally after a really long time, we stopped, both out of breath, staring into each other’s eyes. The ice blue of his eyes blazed with passion and it was so mesmerizing. I wanted to drown in his eyes.

We spent the rest of the night like this, kissing, staring, kissing again, until I fell asleep in his arms exhausted yet totally safe and secure. His body felt hot against mine and his arms were around me holding me in the bed as I slept blissfully. Everything reminded me oddly of an old dream I had and I was afraid to open my eyes, as if it would all disappear, so I just stayed there half sleeping, half replaying what had happened last night.

His scent wrapped around me like a veil and I inhaled deeply. It was like a cool, summer, sea breeze and like a mixture of smells from the jungle. He reminded me so much of the Amazon that I almost was back there. He moved, moving his hands but never releasing me, running his hand a little lower and resting it on my hip. I could have pulled away, but it felt nice and it was not threatening or overly aggressive, just sweet and inviting.

In his sleep he murmured. “Eshe…”

“Mmmm?” slipped from my lips as I heard him utter my name.

“Don’t leave,” he pleaded with me.

“Why would I?” I answered honestly. I had never felt safer or happier in my life.

“Just don’t,” he said and pulled me closer to him.

I rolled on the bed so that I could face him and my mouth found his. That was when I had to open my eyes. He was still there, real and mine. He responded to my kiss and his hands moved up holding my neck, while I was running my fingers through his hair. His scent and these blazing blue eyes were making me want him like crazy.

“I love you,” I told him pulling my head back a little so I could see his face. 

I could not believe that I said that out loud. Was he ready to hear that? Did he feel the same way? I know he obviously liked me, but love me? Why did I have to go and say it and ruin everything? 

His expression turned serious. “I know…”

“How? Your gift?” I asked a little frustrated.

“You were talking in your sleep,” he whispered and kissed my forehead.

I widened my eyes in surprise.

“Just a little. Until you started dreaming and then you just smiled and were quiet.” He caressed my cheek and made me look straight into his eyes. “Is something wrong?” he asked nervously.

“No… just… you are kind of ‘I-know-all’ and it’s not like I can surprise you… just being close to me makes you learn more and more about me. You said yourself… I am an open book.” I giggled nervously.

“Oh, being an open book doesn’t mean I know everything you will do, you can still change your mind. When I kissed you, I expected you to push me away and leave or give me another ‘let’s-take-it-slow lecture’. Not coming in and closing the door behind you.” He chuckled and kissed the tip of my nose.

I smiled at the memory and his eyes sparkled. He sat up and opened his arms for me. When his arms were tightly around me he leaned his head near my ear and whispered.

“Do you think you don’t surprise me? Really? I know things about your past. But people change. You change, Renesmee changes, Phillip, Dawn, me… everyone. You will not know their future just judging from what they did before. And you… you make things around you shine. You’re optimistic and decisive and positive and try to lighten things when you can!” He cooed huskily.

I do this stuff? I have an awful temper (as I realized recently), am negative and pessimistic and spread panic… or this is how I see myself and how I have been thinking I deal with everything.

“No, I am not. You’re wrong. I am negative and make little things seem huge and panic easily and…” I tried to say but his hand covered my mouth, forcing me to shut up.

“Phillip suggested we would leave. Dawn turned him down. I didn’t know anyone would bring up the idea again, but you did. You made everyone think about it again. You actually started making an escape plan! I am sure we will escape, that we will leave this hole because of you! You are special and you have to understand it. You are here for a reason Eshe….it is your destiny, just as we are each other’s destiny.” He smiled and his eyes flashed with pride and passion.

He stopped talking and just held me, while I was thinking, replaying his words, trying to find sense in them and believe them. We sat there still, just enjoying the quiet, until the soft, greenish light from the garden came through the windows and made the room have light green-bluish tones and the silver frame of the bed glistening waking me up from my thoughts.

I turned to look at Cole who was smiling warmly. He opened his mouth to say something when I heard someone else.

“Eshe? Eshe, where are you? Cole have you-” the door opened and Nessie’s messy bronze curls appeared and her jaw almost dropped on the floor as her eyes fell on us lying on the bed all snuggled and comfortable.

“Hi, Ness!” I said and waved lazily as if it was the most natural thing in the world to find me and Cole lying on his bed and missing all… night… long…

Yep! I was gonna have some ‘splaining to do!

“Wha- Whe-” Nessie looked at me questioningly.

“Looong story…” I said yawning and pulling away from Cole to try and ease off the bed.

“But, you’re here… Damn we’re all in trouble. Aro- Aro-” Nessie stuttered.

“Aro what?” Cole tensed behind me and I stood up.

“What happened?” I asked worried.

“Aro came to check on us. And well I had no clue where you were, I thought you were with Dawn but then I went and found her and she told me she hadn’t seen you and we couldn’t find you and Aro’s looking for you and he thought you tried to escape or something and is looking everywhere. And he sounded angry. No. Furious actually would be a better word for what he is right now,” she explained without taking a breath.

“Oh uh… Now what do we do?” I asked as I looked at Cole and saw the fear in my eyes mirrored in his.

And if he asks for my hand? He will know our plans to escape… he will know about the passage in Marcus’s room… and about Cole and me!

“Eshe?” Cole asked as he reached for my hand to comfort me.

“Mmmm?” I choked out.

“We have to go before Aro sends any vampires to look in the city!” he said with a wild look in his eyes.

“Yeah, right…” Cole took my hand and we ran behind Nessie.

When we reached the place where Aro stood, we came to a stop. He looked like he always did in his black robe. In the tunnels that day, he reminded me of the vampire cliché of Dracula more than ever before. He stood there, eyes a dangerous red and his skin glowing faintly in the light of torches.

“Ah… Eshe, my dear. I was worried.” He said with a sticky sweet voice. There was still a threatening tone in his voice that scared me. I just hoped my heart wouldn’t give me away. “You know we have been looking for you? I really would love to know where you have been and it was so hard to find you.” He offered his hand but I chose the safest way to deal with Aro and that was to speak before he could grab my hand.

“I was looking for Cole and then we lost track of time. We have been together. In his room, until now.” I blushed hoping that my embarrassment would explain that we were along and trying to hide it. I would deal with the others later.

He was looking at me, trying to find one little imperfection, a little detail that gave away the fact that I was lying, but he couldn’t find any. First because Cole’s touch gave me confidence and made me feel like I could make Aro believe everything right now and secondly because I wasn’t really lying. And I don’t think that the rest of the truth is any of Aro’s business after all.

“Hmmm… I do see that,” he said, his eerie eyes locking on our clasped hands.

“Well, I have some things to do right now but I promise you that you won’t miss me. I shall come back to see you as soon as I can,” he said and laughed his evil, high pitched laugh then turned to walk away.

This didn’t sound as cheerful as I would have imagined it should, it was more something like: I will see when I will kill you later. A shiver ran through me but Aro had turned around and was already walking away.

“This guy is freaking me out more with every day that passes…” I murmured hiding the terror I felt even at the thought of the Volturi and especially Aro…

And right now, I started realizing that I was in the devil’s playhouse, the wolf’s den (sorry Jake). I was in the Volturi Palace and here, Aro was the one who could do the bossing around….the devil himself…the Alpha (again, sorry Jake).

 We were just his toys, who were, apparently, allowed to live for a little while longer until he tired of us or we did something to cause him displeasure and he disposed of us. The more I thought about it, the more despaired and miserable I was becoming so I tried to distract myself with the two half-vampires who were next to me and were talking regardless of the fact that I wasn’t hearing.

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