When I awoke, the thin stream of light shining through the break in the curtains was harsh enough that it burned my eyes. I pushed myself up against the headboard as the memories flooded back to me.
“Baby, are you okay?”, Elijah’s voice broke the silence.
I turned to look at him, his eyes full of worry. “I-I don’t know. What happened?”
“The guards found you out in the yard a few nights ago. You’ve been out ever since.”
A few days ago? It felt like only last night that the breath-taking stranger stopped me in the forest and bit me. “How long?”
“Four days, Lilly. You’ve been out cold for four days.”
“Oh”, was all I could muster up. I didn’t want to tell Elijah what exactly had happened to me. He would probably think I was crazy if I did, “I was running home because Raven
