"I'm not losing you." Those eyes closed and I felt her tighten her fingers against my hair. I was fucking overwhelmed by the sight of her, and that beauty made me wicked in ways I had no clue existed.. It made me so damn ready to do anything for her, and she could never even guess just how much that was.. I felt her shake her head. "It's not just about me." I watched those eyes flatter open and felt how her hands slid down my chest. I took her wrists, those delicate palms in mine, and felt her instantly preform that familiar caressing as our fingers intertwined.. How she played with her fingers in mine and looked down for a second.. The quickness in her caresses showed that exact nervousness, that kind of uncertainty she didn't allow many people see.. "Amelia has a daughter waiting for her at home." She looked back up at me, and I found myself well aware of her words, agreeing with them, but very much surprised Lana even thought of such things. "I won't allow her to risk her life either." I always knew.. I knew how much goodness this girl had inside her.. Just how great her generosity was because damn me, but if she could accept me despite all my sins, she was exactly the only light in that world of pitch darkness.. That very spark of fire to my coldness.. Hell, she couldn't even imagine just how damn much I was in love with her. "You're-" My eyes closed on their own because I could not bare the pureness behind those eyes that caused a whole war in my mind.. "Christ, you're too good." I pulled her against her waist just to have her as close to me as physically possible. Those daring lips brushed against my own and even with closed eyes I could feel ever bit of their perfection.. Determined to make me lose my mind with the feel of them against my own.. A quick kiss was not enough but it was still the very intoxication my soul longed for, well aware that I would be left addicted and desperate if I pulled away.. But I still did.. I still had to look back at those wild greens that would sooth me better than anything else ever could.. "You're too pure to understand any of this.. Too innocent." I could repeat and say things for hours, but how could I focus on my own words when she did all those little things that swirled my mind? Caressing my nose with hers and leaning closer.. Having me desperate to promise her eternity of my love for her. "I will protect that with my life.." I pulled her closer.. I- goodness, I could not get enough.. Looking back at those eyes, I was once again assured I could get damn lost on the emotions behind them for hours.. "It'll be all over soon." She nodded her head almost as if she agreed it would, but still, I doubt she even knew how determined I was to release her from all those problems. "I promise you." ~ Lana's POV It was not really possible to make him understand unless I had ways to prove to him.. Prove that after what happened the previous night, I was planning that man's ruin as well.. Adam not only put my life in danger, but the lives to those I loved more than I did myself. Death is what he kept so desperately seeking for.. And death was awaiting him. Not even fully alive yet very much the monster no one could find upon the living. He wanderer around the shadows and darks because that's the kind of coward he was.. He slyly played mind games, hiding behind those three witches yet so easily showed despair of how much vengeance he was seeking.. I had Christian by my side.. Overprotective, yes, but still, very much there for my support. And it was all I needed. If it were him and I only into it, then so be it. I was ready to end those that dared to even think about hurting some of my own.. Together, with him. That's all that was needed. I wished that the world would know.. The reaction when the world finds out.. My very salvation in every way.. Christian Le Bouriser. And who would think that I, Khan's daughter would ever dare to break the golden rule? To not only work with the vampires, but to lay with one.. To love one.. It could mean death. For both of us.. And I was aware of that possibility. Yet I promised.. I promised there would be no such secret no more. Us would no longer be a secret, even if it meant running.. Goodness, I was ready to die for him. How could I ever even doubt it? I loved him. That's the only truth I knew of. I loved him so damn much, it was insanity. But I had to go back.. One last time.. One last time saying goodbye and never again. I went back home so I could sort things out. Ruin Adam for once and tell my secret to my father.. Tell him that yes it was perhaps lust that pushed me in the arms of a Le Bouriser.. But it was love that made me run back whenever something happened. I sneaked back to my room through the window, walking in the dark and releasing a sigh of relief that I managed to make it out and back without getting caught.. However, a sound of someone clearing their throat did catch my attention.. I found myself taking a startled step back, noticing the figure that sat on the fluffy armchair.. The light came switched on, and I was just then aware that my heart had stopped dead in my chest until it continued rapidly almost in my throat. Jack.. God, he-.. he scared the life out of me.. Staring back at him, I stood with my hand against my chest to at least somewhat calm my rapid heart.. I closed my eyes and took a small step back, still startled by the idea how he sat there and said nothing.. In the middle of the night.. And to think that it was me that caught him and Marco sneaking in and out to race one another in the middle of the night.. My brother had grown and used it now against me. "Goodness, Jack," "You went to see him, didn't you?" His voice was clear and deep as it filled the silence.. I stood straight and quiet as I glanced back at him in shock.. "Christian Le Boursier.." How did he.. I couldn't wrap my head around how he guessed that.. "You're sneaking out to meet with him.."