“I don’t know what you mea-” I was cut off by the vampire, Zane, cutting off my airflow. I reached for my magic, but stopped when several more vampires entered my field of view. He let me breathe again, and I tried to calm down my fight-or-flight response.
“Okay, I get it. I overheard something I shouldn’t have, about him, some secret, and in exchange for my silence, he’s offering protection,” I lied, the words sliding quite easily off my tongue. I made sure to speak as quietly as possible so that Zoe and Christina wouldn’t hear, if they were even still here.
Zane grinned, and the sight of those fangs so close to me made me both angry and terrified. Mostly terrified. What the f**k had my life become... I was getting attacked every day, and I could only trust my f*****g enemy, a literal
