“Having them at their disposal, putting them in their territory would weaken us, and if they put up a border like we did then we would have been f****d.
“So, we fought back, saved all of us, but there were so many casualties, so much bloodshed. At the time, I was obsessed with it. I wanted the pain and the c*****e.
“I had been taught to crave that. To be the strongest, to be even more bloodthirsty than them. And I was.
“Until I was beaten. I fell to my knees in front of a much stronger vamp, and I thought I was done for. He could have killed me, maybe it would have been better if he had, but instead, he took me.”
Kai shuddered and I held him tighter, listening to every word, the picture in my mind getting darker, but it only made me care more. It didn’t make me want to run, it made
