Chapter Covers
Chapter 1 - There Are No Such Things (pt.1)
EXCERPT:
Every person I’ve ever met believes, to a varying extent, that everything happens for a reason.
Sometimes the reason is as simple as you made a bad decision, you were a dumbass, and now you’ve got to pay. Other times the reasons go deeper, and you can feel in the soft grit of your marrow that there are other, greater powers at work.
Thinking back on that fateful night I know now that I felt some of that. To abuse another oft used expression, hindsight really was twenty-twenty.
You can remember a moment and recognize the exact second that changed everything. Where your path diverged and the choices presented to you.
Chapter 2 - There Are No Such Things (pt.2)
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Chapter 2 - There Are No Such Things (pt.2)
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This dark burst of pain and the smell of blood filling my head. A sensation of gushing, of heat escaping. His cool hands cradling my body. Inhuman strength. Iron bars holding me steady. Already too weak to resist, I couldn’t have.
I felt the darkness closing in, my vision narrowing to a single point.
He sank his teeth into my throat, white fangs as sharp as knives and I couldn’t stop him so I fixed my gaze on the yellow security light hissing over our heads. Watched the drizzle come down cold while blood seeped through my fingers from the devastating wound in my stomach.
Through my neck or my gut I was going to die and I think I gave myself over to him in that moment. Better this death than a lingering one. I didn’t want to lie there in the rain and the dark, all alone, waiting. Counting the seconds, afraid.
Let him drink.