Chapter 4
Katie
I didn’t know how long I’d been down in the underground. There had been no daylight, no clocks, no way of measuring time.
I ended up counting how many times they took away bags of my blood.
There had been three hundred and seventy-two changes, give or take a few.
Did that correlate to days? Weeks? I didn’t know.
But it had felt like an entire lifetime. I’d craved the sleep, and the pain-killing IVs they put into my body in the end. I’d wanted to be dead. Everyday. I’d prayed for it. Begged the vampires that drained me until I passed out, to kill me.
That was until the door had opened and Shadow had walked toward me, picked me up in his arms, and carried me away.
At the time it had felt like a dream, part of a fantasy I’d conjured up in my drugged sleep. After all, h
