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“Hopefully, he thinks she’ll be easier to get information from.”

“There’s a but there, what is it Aksel?” Anna asks.

She’s talking to me so gently like she cares about my turmoil. It doesn’t make any sense.

I take a deep breath. “But, he doesn’t approve of mating outside your race and you two have done that. He might want to make an example out of you.”

“Do we need to be worried about our lives?”

“It’s not out of his realm of possibilities but I highly doubt he would invite all of us over just to kill us. We need to be aware of our surroundings and cautious. No one can sneak up on us while we are distracted.”

All of them take me seriously and nod their agreement.

“It’s tonight at eight, go prepare. When we are there, you need to keep the amulet hidden. My father is too interested in it, we don’t want him to know you have it.”

No one moves until Anna says, “I feel like I’m getting a headache. I just want to lay down.”

Reluctantly, I turn around and leave Felix to help. She needs blood and I can’t solve that problem for her. Especially not now that my father is getting involved.

Thirty

Anna

I wake up with a blinding shooting pain behind my eyes and it won’t stop. It feels like every movement of my head makes it worse. Lights and sound feel like hell on earth.

I grip my temples trying pressure to stop the pain but it doesn’t work.

Felix fed me before I took a nap. What is happening?

“Anna? What’s wrong?” Felix asks. His voice is like a thousand nails being hammered into my skull.

I can feel his body pressing against my side.

“Shh,” I hush him.

“Sorry. What is going on?” Felix whispers. It still hurts but at least it’s only a hundred nails.

“My. Head.” It takes everything in me to utter those two words.

“Fuck,” he whisper swears.

He presses his wrist against my lips. “Drink. You need blood.”

I don’t hesitate, digging my fangs into him until I taste his blood on my tongue. The honey and snow flavor floods my senses.

The pain starts to ease only slightly. I keep going, desperate for the migraine to end.

His arm becomes slack in my grip.

“I’m sorry. You have to stop.” Felix pulls his wrist away and I have just enough self-control not to chase after him.

“That helped,” I rasp. It cut the pain in half but didn’t eradicate it completely.

“You need more blood. I’ll go get Griffyn,” Felix tells me.

I open my eyes just enough to see him wobble on his feet before rushing out of the room.

Second, minutes, or hours later Griffyn comes rushing in.

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