(EARLIER)
Although it was well after morning, Ari snuggled deeper under her comforter, trying to fall back asleep again. Sleep promised relief from the ache that consumed her, both in body and in mind, yet she had hardly managed to sleep at all. The pain kept waking her up, the racking repetitive banging in her head, and then when she was up, her world would whirl in a bad case of vertigo. The endless spinning sensation would stir her stomach so bad, she often found herself in her second refuge, the bathroom, puking up the measly portion of food she was able to keep down, or something worse…
Ari knew why she was feeling this way. These symptoms exploded inside her ever since she had bitten and marked Adrian. The black bile she spewed from her mouth with nearly every bathroom trip
