Alternate Ending and continuation starting at chapter 19
The news of my newly found sickness wildly in infuriated me. After losing Erick and going through the trouble of finding him and then having to be partnered with and turned by a devious monster I’m going to die? My heart ached and my breath was short. The turning in my stomach could have been from my disgust with Aaron or my sickness. I could hardly comprehend how fast this had gotten from bad to worse. But he was worth it; Erick was worth all of it. My cell phone buzzed on the cream leather seat next to me. I didn’t even spare a glance at it, just turned the volume of the car radio up and sped down the long winding road back to the manor where death waited for me.
Everything was normal; it was all as I left it. I was sure by this time Aaron knew that I had left without confronting him first, and knowing Melissa I’m sure Erick knew as well. There were a few guests in the ballroom chatting and sipping out if fine dark red stained glasses. My room door clicked open and I felt the comforted feeling of it being empty. My body felt weak and my clothes were slightly damp with a light sweat. My bed welcomed me. I kicked my black boots off and curled up into a ball. I had no idea of what to do. Who was I going to tell? Who would even bother to try and go against Aaron? I knew who but that was the one person I was not going to risk was losing. If I told Aaron that I knew what he was and what he was doing he would kill me, I knew that down to my very core. And if he killed me Erick would go after him and probably lose his life in the battle. I couldn’t let that happen. I would have to fight my hunger for Aaron to postpone the inevitable for as long as I could. That would mean id have to take from someone else and surly he would know, but that’s the only way. I couldn’t tell anyone anything. I don’t think I felt this alone since Erick left me and it sickened me. But I would have taken a life time of the feeling than having to bare the company of Aaron which is what I got when the lock on the door clicked and he stepped in.
“I hope your trip went well” There was no sense in pretending I was asleep, my blood bond to him gave that away. Instead I simply ignored him. “I see you are still angry with me from the other night.” A single swift step brought him across the room to me in a blur. He lowered himself down to kneel in front of me. My stomach clenched in a tight painful knot. The smell of him so close punished the hunger that I had ignored while I was away. The dangerous canines hidden beneath my gums began to descend into my mouth as his sent filled my lungs “I had no intension of hurting you Angel” His hand came up to brush a loose strand of hair from my face. I flinched away from him and rolled over onto my side giving him my back. “I was out of control, and I didn’t know what I was doing” He let out a breath. “And blaming you after was wrong of me” For a moment my anger eased as I listened to his apologies, and then it all returned because I know that he knows he was killing me when he did it, he still knows. I glanced over my shoulder as he stood up. “It’s been a few days, you must be hungry and weak, hear” I watched him lift his wrist to his mouth and in a blur of motion I was standing before him snatching his hand away from his mouth.
“No! I mean no, I’m not hungry” I knew the second his vain was open all my strength would have been lost to the scent of his blood. And once I had it there would be no stopping me from adhering to my hunger and my death. Our bond was too new. It was still hard for me to resist him sometimes. Even if I wanted to rip his heart out there were feelings I couldn’t help because I was bound to him and vice versa.
“Alright… well allow me to make it up to you in another way” His hand snacked its way around my neck and into my hair, pulling me into a long unwanted kiss. I was so disgusted I wanted to cry. The man tried to kill me and is still trying to kill me, and here I am pressed up against him as if we were the most passionate lovers. His slight pause told me he knew something was off. I swallow hard and balled hands into fists behind his neck as I forced a smile to my lips and created a fake moan to answer his questioning.
