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bonded now?” I spoke cautiously, afraid it
was too good to be true.
    After all this time trying to figure a way around it,
around Peter, it almost seemed impossible to believe that while I
was sleeping, it had happened.
    “What do you think?” Jack smiled crookedly at me.
Breathing him in, feeling the way my body felt magnetized to his, I
knew we were bonded.
    My first big clue was when Jack had opened his veins
in the den, and I had been unable to resist the scent of his blood.
It tasted wonderful, and my mouth watered at the thought of it. But
no vampires’ blood should be that appealing to humans. People
aren’t meant to have bloodlust, but I did, for Jack.
    “So then what happened?” I continued, ignoring the
delirious happiness taking over me. My heart sped up and my thirst
intensified, but I wanted my curiosity satisfied before I dealt
with my other pressing needs.
    “I don’t know.” Jack furrowed his brow, but more out
of displeasure over the subject. “I was in the den with you, and
Peter went crazy in the other room. I was afraid he would hurt you,
so I ran out to find out what happened. He was destroying the
house, and Ezra could barely contain him. But he didn’t seem to
care about me when I came out.”
    “But why? If he didn’t want to hurt you, why was he
so angry?”
    “He felt it break.” He lowered his eyes from mine.
“The bond. If you hadn’t been out, you would’ve felt it. And if you
hadn’t bonded with me, you’d still be feeling it. Apparently, it’s…
incredibly painful.”
    “Why?” I asked.
    “I don’t know.” He shifted and hesitated before
continuing. “Physically, I guess it’s similar to turning, but on a
smaller scale. But… something happens emotionally too. And Peter
was so riled up from everything else that had been going on.”
    Jack didn’t like talking about the fact that Peter
had actually cared for me. He didn’t want to believe it because of
how Peter treated me and how much Jack loved me. If he admitted
that maybe Peter did truly love me, then what Jack had been doing
with me suddenly became a betrayal, and Jack did not see it that
way.
    “So where is he now?” I asked.
    “Nobody knows. He’s just gone, for good this time.”
Jack shrugged, as if it was of no consequence to him.
    “Good,” I lied and hoped he didn’t notice. Then I
swatted his arm, probably harder than I meant to from the surprised
grimace on his face.
    “Thanks?”
    “That’s for being the biggest idiot ever! How could
you do something so stupid?” I yelled at him, and it was a tough
decision not to hit him again. “You were going to kill yourself! If
the bond hadn’t been snapped or whatever, you would’ve been
murdered!”
    “I didn’t have a choice,” Jack said, and he
suppressed a laugh at my mini-outburst. “There was a good chance
that I would die no matter what I did. In case you haven’t noticed,
I’m a lover, not a fighter.”
    “That’s not an excuse,” I said, but a smile started
to curl up at my lips.
    “I just needed to know you were safe. That was the
only thing that mattered to me,” he said earnestly and placed his
hand on mine.
    Heat instantly spread through me, making my heart
flutter. I lunged forward, kissing him and pressing my body against
his. He gave into it for a moment, but hunger threatened to
completely take control of my body. Just when I was about to let
it, he pushed me back from him, and that’s when I got the big sex
talk.
    After a few days of getting my bloodlust under
control, Ezra thought it would be good if I went about cleaning up
what was left of my human life. That meant doing fun things, like
going with Jack to my mom’s house so we could have this incredibly
intense fight when I said that I was moving in with Jack, again.
She tried to convince me to stay, then cried a lot, called me names
and told me she loved me.
    When it was all said and done, she stormed off into
the night. I packed up my things, and since I felt