Chapter Seven "Are you sure you want to do this?" Bryce asks as I pace back and forth. "I've already told Emma I will." The text I sent her must have been one of the hardest things I've ever written. Nothing is going to change my mind away from the fact that what they're doing is barbaric. But that's why I have to do this. If I don't, more vampires, and more humans, are going to die. And that's not acceptable to me. "You can still back out," Bryce says. "You can say something came up, or that you've decided it isn't for you after all." "Do you really think they'll believe that?" I turn so I can see the expression on his face, and my heart sinks. He's scared. Probably more so than he ever has been before. And that includes when he watched me die. I never thought anything could top that

