The strings broke. The damn burst. The fire exploded when his tongue dragged over the bite. I cried out, "Noah Stop!"
Instantly he was off me, standing more than six feet away, a horrified look on his face but the tears blinded me. "Stop." I cried.
He looked as though I had slapped him clean across the face. Except now he wasn't Noah anymore.
His features were softer, his eyes brighter and his arms that clenched were stronger. Everything within him was tense, he seemed almost like a bomb to me and it was just a matter of time before he exploded into an inferno of hellfire and rage.
His voice was deadly calm. "What did you say?"
"I-I" I couldn't speak, words wouldn't form and my tongue became clumsy as it fumbled for words, desperately searching for some semblance of a word to diffuse
