Liz POV I balked at my parents and blinked back tears. Ash stood next to me, trembling with fury. The guy who attacked him…he had not only seen us in town but recognized us and sent a picture of us to Josh? We were that close to him and hopelessly oblivious to his presence? What is wrong with me? I should have known better than to expose Ash like that. I risked his life just to have him take stupid dance classes with me. Ugh, I’m the worst kind of selfish. I looked up at Ash. His face was cold and disconnected, a big difference from the smiles and joy we shared last night talking about getting married and when we wanted to seal our union by marking each other. As my father did with my mother, I’ll be injecting him with a low dose of my venom, and that will actually partially encase his

