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Aksel is worried about me? Now I’m really scared.

“It’s not Rion. I trust him,” I say, earning a glare from Aksel.

“Plus, these started before he came here,” Blaze points out.

He’s right, they did.

“How do we determine what’s causing them?” I ask.

“We will look into it. I know it’s not ideal but as of right now they’re just headaches. We have time to figure this out,” Felix says. He scoots his chair closer to me, wrapping me up in his arms. I lean into him for strength. As the injured one, I think I should be giving him strength, but whatever.

I’m pretty sure going through the trauma of being turned into a vampire at least means I shouldn’t have to worry about my health.

Another spike of pain shoots through my head, ending this conversation.

“I need to rest,” I say, heading for the stairs.

Felix follows me upstairs as I hear the rest of them mumbling.

“You should try feeding,” Felix says once we get up to my room.

“I think it has helped in the past,” I confess. “But there is no way I’m feeding from you when you lost so much blood yesterday.”

I didn’t realize I shouldn’t be hurting unless I was starving.

“I’m getting Griffyn, and you can’t fight me on this.”

“How thirsty do I need to be to feel this way?” I ask

“At least two weeks without feeding from what I’ve heard. We didn’t know how often you were feeding before we came along. You could have been starving yourself, which is why I thought feeding you the first time solved the problem. But you weren’t, were you?”

“No, I had feed recently enough then too,” I say.

He looks worried but doesn’t say more.

There’s a slight knock on the door before Griffyn comes in. He moves closer to me, sitting next to me on the bed and tilting his neck for me.

“Are you sure?” I whisper.

It feels wrong to do this when we’ve been fighting.

“Absolutely. I don’t want you in pain and Felix can’t help right now. Please, Anna, let me help you.”

I feel the slight sting of my fangs pushing through before I sink them into Griffyn’s neck, drinking deeply. With every swallow, I feel the headache lessening, like his blood does make a difference.

Twenty Three

Anna

Aksel’s next grocery order hasn’t come in yet so we order out for dinner. I have to admit, it’s pretty nice living life this way. It’ll be a sad day when I have to go back to worrying about grocery shopping.

My phone buzzes in my pocket. Another call from my mom. I send it to voicemail like all the rest.

As soon as the phone call disappears, I see I have a text from Aly asking if I’m walking Bailey today.

The guys and I agreed it was too dangerous, after the shooting incident, even though Bailey is a good source of protection.

I tell her I’m busy and don’t know when I’ll be able to again but that I miss him and her.

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