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The message, Isaac felt certain, came out loud and clear. Isaac stalked away from them both and punched a tree. The tree proceeded to shudder, and a cracking sound filled the air it crashed to the ground. Sabrina screamed, and Elijah hurried to her side to put a soothing hand on her shoulder. This did not help his anger very much.
Apparently the message hadn’t been as clear as he had thought.
Anger oozed out of his pores like a sickness as Isaac stalked toward them, but he halted when he saw how petrified Sabrina looked. He growled and sat down to hold his head in his hands in an attempt to calm himself. She’d asked to be bitten. She’d actually requested to become a monster, to become his enemy.
He concentrated on calming his fury, and attempted to steer away the mental images of Elijah sinking his teeth into her neck. Although vampires liked the sensitive spot on the inside of the thigh, too. Elijah would probably much prefer that spot over a measly neck bite.
No, those types of thoughts wouldn’t calm him down.
Get a grip, man.
When Isaac finally felt calm enough to confront Sabrina, he raised his head and glowered. Elijah still stood by Sabrina, but had wisely removed his hands from her. If he even so much as touched her right now, Isaac would lose the small bit of control he had. “And what, my love, would you accomplish if you got your way? Have you changed your mind, and would like to live with Elijah instead?” he bit out. He ground his teeth together in an attempt to stay calm.
Sabrina ran to his side, halting Elijah’s panicked attempt to stop her with a glare of her own, and crouched down beside him. “No, Isaac. I love you. I thought maybe if I weren’t so weak—”
He laughed somewhat hysterically at her line of thought. Shaking his head in bemusement, he sneered, “You thought you would become a big, strong vampire and defeat Louisa, and we could live happily ever after?”
Sabrina blushed, but scowled at his condescending tone. “Yes, but God knows why I would want to be with an asshole like you.” They glared at each other, neither backing down from their icy stance.
“Do you realize if he bites you, you would always be a part of him? That you’d have loyalty and attachments such as you’ve never known? Even Elijah feels drawn to Louisa, and he despises her.”
She looked to Elijah for confirmation, and he nodded his assent.
“Oh well, if it helps us all out of this mess, so be it. I’m strong enough to resist,” she insisted.
“Even if that were true, it would take at least a week until you were able to fight Louisa. Until then, you’d be lying in bed, wracked with pain. Useless. You don’t become an invincible immortal right away.”
“It’s true,” Elijah added softly from behind them. “It’s not something you should wish for, Sabrina. It is no way for anyone to live. You’d be better off dead, just as I should be.”
She gasped and glared at him. “Knock it off, Elijah. You may not be a mortal, but you’re no monster.”
Elijah scoffed at her words and looked away from her probing eyes.
“Sabrina, you’re forgetting one fact,” Isaac interrupted. She swung her gaze back to Isaac and arched an eyebrow. Isaac continued, “If you become a vampire, we couldn’t be together. I’d be your enemy. We’d be apart forever, or damned and hunted down if I went to you. It’s no way to live.”
“You’ll be damned and hunted down for pairing with Elijah as well, which doesn’t bother you. So why not be damned and be rid of Louisa’s threat in the process? I wouldn’t be a weak human, and we could be together forever.”
Isaac let his breath escape in a hiss. “No. Absolutely not.”
Sabrina crossed her arms and turned her attention back to Elijah. “If you won’t do it, Elijah, I’ll find some other way to make it happen. I won’t sit by and let Louisa hunt me down and kill me. I will fight.”
“You will not!” Isaac yelled.
Elijah interrupted once more, insisting. “Isaac, you need to get her inside. I know Louisa is nearby, and we don’t want to risk tempting her any longer. Go argue in the house, where I don’t have to listen.”
Isaac nodded his head and grabbed Sabrina’s arm.
She pulled back and drawled, “Yes, let’s hide the poor human girl. We wouldn’t want her to stub her toe.”
Elijah hid his smile, feigning a cough, while Isaac growled.
“Knock it off, Sabrina.”
She glared at him and spun to Elijah. “Elijah, please….” His eyes softened, and Isaac picked her up in his arms.
“Don’t even think about it, or I’ll kill you right here and now.”
“Do you promise?” Elijah taunted.
