“What?” My eyes looked up to him, glinting with tears as I pleaded. “Please Draven, take me, just for tonight. I won’t be able to sleep. Any…anytime I close my eyes, I see Yulia—lying there unmoving. And then that beast…then people…thousands of people and then the beast…they become more… hundreds of them, killing the people…I can’t explain it, oh heavens…I can’t, but I don’t want to see so much blood again,” I cried, unable to hold myself as I trembled all over looking up at Draven, tears trailing down my cheeks. “I need to take my mind off it, Draven, or I swear I’ll run mad, I will…” “It’s okay, breathe trouble maker, just breathe, I’m here,” his deep voice came cutting through the fog surrounding my vision. And then, Draven fell to his knees before the bed just so he could reach my

