-Mefan- I will never love anyone else... I had told her that. I had told her there wouldn’t be anyone else, and for hundreds and hundreds of years, I kept that promise. She remained unique, unmatched, and yet there was another—someone I had found myself tied to, someone I found myself enjoying being around, not wanting to break him because I could or because my darkness demanded release. No, he swirled in the darkness with me. Our connection had been buzzing with powerful feelings all night, mostly emanating from his side as he made new friends. But as it ended up being just us, I found another feeling—a feeling that was burning hotly between us. It had been there before, but never this strongly. Something had changed tonight, and when we ended up in front of one another so close that

