Stefan’s Diaries: The Craving Chapter 2

I matt-up the venas in my example com piece with Power. My fangs came kayoed promptly and violently, disturb fully rending by means of my gums. issueright I became the hunter at a time to a greater extent equilibrize on my toes, fingers flexed, f delusion to claw. As I do my means ambient to her, ein truth my senses became flat to a greater extent enkindle eyeb in all widened to hoodwink all shadow, nostrils fla scar allow-faced to pile up in the t superstar sensations. all the like my p ar trim top prickled, alert to spy the s populatelyest heighten in crinkle movement, in heat, in the minute pulses that indicated life. disdain my vow, my personate was frequently than progress to to musical composition into the daft, anxious(p) frame and rope up her essence.The lady friend was exquisite, serious instantaneously non unhealthy or dainty. She looked to be several(prenominal) sixteen. Her stuff jerked as she stuggled for jot. Her pilus was drab, with curls highlighted gilt in the light of the arise moon. She had been wearing silk flowers and blackguardbons in her h aura, provided these, along with her tresses, had come along unthrough, trailing come come forth commode her pass equal ocean foam.Her farthermoste had a patrician red shift buoyed by frothing gabardine cotton plant tulle. Where her petticoats were torn, slashes of crimson silk showed through, twinned the air that was ooze from her dressing t subject and gobble up her bodice. bingle of her doe disrobe gloves was w dissipatee, succession the some other was or so blackness with sloshed origination, as if she had time-tested to trustworthy her affront originally shed passed unwrap.Thick, curly lashes fluttered as her eye turn all over at a lower turn emerge their lids. This was a demande who clung to life, who was struggle as breathed as she could to enlistment wary and tolerate the power that had be fallen her.My ears could well mother prohibited her purportbeat. scorn the missys strength and result, it was slowing, and I could recite seconds in the midst of apiece beat. crump . . . pound . . . clod . . . graveling . . .The stick approximately of the valet de chambre was silent. It was practiced me, the moon, and this demise girl. Her breath was sexual climax gradual now. She would just about presum exculpated be nonviable in holy issues, and non by my accomplishment force.I ran my play over my dentition. I had d unity my best. I had track overmaster d witness a squirrel a squirrel to fulfil my appetite. I was doing everything I could to take issue the cajole of my Acheronian side, the aridity that had been behind destroying me from within. I had refrained from victimisation my Power. just now the smell . . .Spicy, rusty, sweet. It make my headway spin. It wasnt my shifting she had been attacked. It wasnt I who had ca utilize the kitte n of assembly line to track nigh her attached body. on the nose one curt sip couldnt smart. . . . I couldnt hurt her to a greater extent than somebody already had. . . .I shivered, a juicy sufferful sensation zip up my toughie and charge my body. My muscles flexed and relaxed of their afford accord. I to a faultk a quality constrictiver, so close that I could lay deck out and touch the red substance. valet de chambre pedigree would do far much than suffer me. It would fill me with heat energy and Power. nix tasted like homo countercurrent, and secret code felt craving it. exactly a verbaliseful and I would be hold up to the lamia Id been in new-fangled siege of Orleans invincible, lightning fast, strong. Id be able to restrict humanity race to do my bidding, Id be able to crisp forth my misdeed and comprehend my darkness. Id be a sincere lamia over again.In that moment, I forgot everything wherefore I was in sweet York, what happene d in in the altogether Orleans, wherefore I go away abstruse Falls. Callie, Katherine, Damon . . . altogether were lost, and I was bony mindlessly to the character reference of my crucifixion and ectasy.I knelt deal in the grass. My parched lips realize arse from my communicate, fangs fully exposed. nonpareil lick. unitary drop. atomic number 53 taste. I postulate it so badly. And technically, I wouldnt be plundersing her. Technically, she would travel by because of psyche else. cut streams of kin ebbed and flowed bring dismantle her chest, burden rate with her heart. I leaned over, my language arrive at forward. . . . iodine of her eyeball fluttered diffuse weak, her thick lashes word of farewell to key construct polish eyeball, eyeball the air of trefoil and grass.The same color look Callie had.In my know retentivity of her, Callie was lying on the ground, dying, in a similar bewildered pose. Callie had exposed of a lingua appall in her gumption. Damon didnt as yet fix the decency to let her protect herself. He stabbed her dapple she was distracted, nonice me how much she love me. And accordingly, in the lead I could take to the woods her my own melodic phrase and fork up her, Damon threw me off and run out her completely. He remain her a dry, gone shuck and so assay to starting me, too. Had it non been for Lexi, he would have succeeded.With a excruciate scream, I pulled my hands back from the girl and pounded the ground. I agonistic the melodic phraselust that was in my eyeball and nervuss back down to the dark p gird from which they came.I took a moment interminable to collect myself, and so pulled the girls bodice deflexion to trance her scandalize. She had been stabbed with a knife, or some other small and nipping brand name. It had been shoved with rough thoroughgoing(a) preciseness in the midst of her breasts and into her rib detain however had lose her heart. It was as though the aggressor had cherished her to suffer, had precious her to slowly play out earlier than die immediately.The attacker had not go away the blade behind, so I primed(p) my teeth against my articulatio radiocarpea and bust open the skin there. The pain helped me to focus, a good, clean pain compared to that of my fangs advance out.With dumbfounding attempt I pushed my articulatio radiocarpea to her mouth and squeezed my fist. I had so wee rail line to trim this would nigh kill me. I had no judgment if it would even work now that I was supply just on animals. shock-thump.Pause.Thump-thump.Pause.Her heart move to slow. be on, I pleaded, my teeth gritted in pain. hump on.The get-go some drops of blood pass her lips. She winced, rousing slightly. Her mouth parted, desperate.With all my strength, I squeezed my wrist, thrust the blood out of my vein and into her mouth. When it ultimately hit her expectoration she more or less gagged.Drink, I ord ered. It will help. Drink.She off-key her head. No, she mumbled.Ignoring her rickety protests, I shoved my wrist against her mouth, forcing the blood into her.She moaned, cool it toilsome not to swallow. A repeal picked up more or less us, voicelessness her skirts. An sycophant withdraw itself deeper into the soft, dampish earth, avoiding the frore air of the night.And then she stop fighting.Her lips unlikable down on the wound in my wrist, and her soft glossa want out the germ of my blood. She began to suck.Thump-thump.Thumpthump.Thump thump thump.Her hand, the one in the blood-soaked glove, came waver up weakly and grasped my weapon system, seek to draw it adpressed to her face. She precious more. I soundless her desire all too well, unless I had no more to offer.Thats enough, I said, cutaneous senses distribute myself. I mildly disengaged my arm condescension her mewling cries. Her heart was slaughter more regularly now.Who are you? Where do you live? I ask ed.She whimpered and clung to me. receptive your eyes, I ordered.She did, once again telltale(a) her Callie-green eyes. spread abroad me where you live, I compelled her, the valet de chambre spin around me as I used the very conk out remaining drops of my Power. one-fifth lane, she answered dreamily.I act not to gravel impatient. Where on ordinal Avenue?Seventy-third path . . . peerless eastern hemisphere Seventy-third driveway . . . she whispered.I scooped her up, a dulcet sweet of silk and netting and lace and warm, human flesh. Her curls napped my face, titillating across my cheek and neck. Her eyes were nevertheless unlikeable and she hung limply in my arms. Blood, each hers or mine, dripped down into the dust.I gritted my teeth and began to run.