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--Jake Andorra

The one thing that I severely notice as I run is that my heart maybe beats about ten tiist would love to see that in action I guess I’ beats at all

As I slip into the forest on another worn path leading up and through the dense wood, Victorian’s words echo incan’t hear or see you, they feel your emotions Whatever you experience, they experience" I’ve sort of had that already Valerian’s thoughts and actions were ones I could see, and feel, right after he was released fro on innocents I could feel what they felt, see what they saw, but I was me I tried to warn the I couldn’t control them, either I was an invisible bystander, but I couldn’t stay out of the situation Hopefully, with this, I’ll learn I can’t i into someone’s body Into their psyche That’s utterly weird

The dark bracken crackles beneath h the wood I pick up speed--which seerow faster than ever with each step I mean, ridiculously fast So much that the trees and bushes and rocks blur My reflexes are lightning fast, and I i li within ood

I don’t kno long I run, but it’s a dains to fade; the rows thicker I slow my pace I’m completely lost and I don’t even care because solance upward, through the canopy of leaves, and watch a crescent in its ascent

I feel his presence before I see hies froed fir tree and I feel the adrenaline surge throughhim does that to me, and I can’t explain it other than that he ether, and to myself, I admit: I miss him Miss the hell out of him, actually I know that what he did, he did for me For my benefit alone, not for hiry at that, and I’in with No, that’s a fat lie I do knohy Because he freaking bit h I know he did it because he lovesOnly stares And waits The wood surrounding us is wildly alive, yet acutely silent Suddenly, his presence overwhel

Instinctively, I go to hi eyes on him for the very first time, I’m drawn to his scent, his eyes, the shape of his jaw, the fall of his hair He mesmerizes me, and yet now, I know him I know his behavior I knohat’s in the heart he swears he doesn’t even have I know his soul that he swears is hell bound He’s wrong about that Never have Isoul I crave hiher, bathes Eli in a silvery hue,him look like the surreal, mystical, cryptic vampire he is

Every bit the fierce and loyal vanificent

It h the air, stirring the canopy above, and carrying with it anticipation, exciteh the wild Carpathians kneas up, as about to occur, and waved their encouragement

An ancient feel accole cross one too long without Eli, without feeling like h I don’t even knoho ht Hih he knoithout words, without being able to read my mind, what I feel He probably does Silently, alk I’ers laced, shoulders brushing, but it’s a while How Eli knohere he’s going is a e appears Sle chimney It’s not the same place he’d taken me to before Without a word, he leads h the front door Inside, all is dark except the ee quilt thrown over the back of a sofa, and he lays it on the floor in front of the fire Kneeling there, he grabs a poker and stokes the erows I stand silently, watching the play of light lick his face, his jaw, and throw his eyes in shadow Tosoul I’ve ever laid eyes on Then Eli rises and turns His eyes lock on tofreezes in that linting off his hungry eyes Ancient eyes that know secrets, have powers, have seen soand anyone in the world that he wanted A rich, high society, untarnished young woman, maybe

Yet, he chooses to be here, with me With me and all of my tarnishes

My pulse quickens, as fast as it will anyway, and blood rushes on powerful thrusts in my veins as I lock eyes with his Eli’s ular rhyth the shadows jump on his face

"Take off your boots and socks"

I blink Before, my first reaction to the blatant, o fuck yourself Only Eli all but quivers with forced restraint, and he doesn’t co vary Alpha who’s just found a delectableit up

Without a word, I toe off my boots Since I have no socks, I now stand with bare feet on the smooth wood floor

"Your jeans"

Heat pools iners work the buttons loose, that when my thumb brushes my panties, just inside the fly, it asp, and wish it was Eli’s hand there instead Now Not later

Eli’s nostrils flare