It was as if someone had squeezed my heart.. Making it stop. He was admitting his wills and were my brothers even listening to this?! I moved away from his touch, still finding it unbelievable that he dared to touch me. "Oh yea? And what is that?" I barked back at him, but only a slight smirk stretched his lips.. He found my fury amusing. "You." The second he said it, I found myself frowning in confusion. Oh. A cheesy answer. Was he trying to make me even more angry than I already was? I was ready to slap him, but all I managed to do was rise my hand, and he already gripped my wrist. I glanced towards the house, but all I saw was my father walking pass my brothers on the porch to see what was going on. I had never felt more crushed in my entire life. It was almost as if they kept trying to make the stone in my chest heavier than it already was. My own parents were on the side of the real enemy here. I looked at my father, and before I got the chance to say something or react, I heard this sickening sound of bone crushing from beside me, and the grip around my wrist loosened. By the time I glanced towards my side, I only saw Alexander fall to the ground, and a tall large figure behind him. Christian. You could not mistake the coldness and the darkness he brought along with him, especially not when he made an entrance like that. He broke Alexander's neck! And it all happened in front of my father's eyes. My lips were parted in disbelief, my mind raced so fast I felt like someone shot a bullet through my head.. It was all becoming worse and worse with each second that passed. I stared at Christian, and saw the clear eye contact he made with my father.. Only a second before he looked at me, the intimidating nature of his holding me in one spot. It all happened so fast and I could not register it all, let along my father and my brothers.. He was like a building shadowing over me. I could see the anger in his eyes, his jaw clenched, and all that was left was for me to wonder if he heard any of that.. In only a second, I heard a low growl from my father, almost as a warning, and when I looked at him, he was already taking a step towards us.. But Christian was faster.. He was one of the most powerful beings that walked this Earth.. Not my father nor Alexander could stop him when he had something on his mind.. Before I could say something, breathe even, I felt his arm wrap around my waist, and as fast as he came, with that horrifying sound of the air being cut, a gush of wind that caused my heart to skip, I felt myself being turned and slightly lifted.. The ground underneath my feet disappeared and the sudden blur of colors made me instantly close my eyes. My senses were heightened beyond belief.. I heard my father calling after me, but his voice was muted as we got further away. Christian was still in his full speed when all I knew was that he rushed with me in his arms away from the house. His smell completely flooded my senses.. I was used on that slight minty masculine scent that calmed me in the weirdest way possible. But what I wasn't used to was him basically abducting me from the front yard of my house, in front of my father's eyes.. Well, it was a classic Christian, I just didn't expect him to show up and snap Alexander's neck. I felt the ground beneath my feet again once he stopped.. I hated supernatural speed. It made me sick. I was still holding onto him when I opened my eyes and took a small step back.. I glanced towards the car a few feet away from us, on the side of the now dark road.. It was empty. Calliope was not in there. They were obviously up to something.. A part of me wanted to scream 'what have you done?!'.. He literally just made my family think that I got kidnapped by a vampire.. They didn't know I was with them and that was alright.. And now they were going to think that I was taken against my own will by a Le Boursier? Great. However, when I looked up at him, all I could think was, thank fucking goodness he showed up. He looked at me, that familiar serious expression on his face.. His brows furrowed and the darkness basically blooming from him. Yet I was so used to it.. So drawn to him that it was unbelievable how much my mind screamed in that moment.. My breaths were sharp like I was the one that just rushed in the shadows. I didn't say a word and neither did he.. We stared at each other for a few seconds. My heart was trying to escape my chest. He has to stop looking at me like that.. It made my stomach turn in a completely different way.. It made my hands itch to touch him, and I was already shaking from everything that happened only minutes ago.. But he distracted me in the weirdest way possible.. He was someone that I was supposed to run away from ever since the first time I saw him at the ball.. Yet something kept pulling me to him in the strongest way possible.. Making me forget my own name, let along what I just went through.. Only a small step was enough to cross that space between the two of us.. Only one step to eagerly move towards him, reach towards his face and get on my tiptoes. It was like our minds worked as one. He wasted no time, and his hands effortlessly wrapped around my waist and he pulled me as close to himself as physically possible. And when I pressed my lips against his, I felt like I breathed again after so long.. I was seeking for that kiss like there was no tomorrow. It was like this different force took over me.. My whole body. I didn't care, I just knew that when I felt his lips move against mine, I wrapped my arms around his neck, trying to savor more of this moment.. My fingers tangled up in his hair and I felt like I was only trying to take in more of the relief that his lips against mine gave me.. It was all I wanted in that moment.. All I craved. I was the one that felt crazed for him, and in that moment all I knew was that he returned with the same yearning. I didn't seem to mind my cut and sharp breaths between the kiss, I just deepened it with the hunger I felt for him that gripped me and crawled through me like never before. And he returned twice as much. And after he promised me last night that he was going to make my family think that I was abducted by him if he had to, he literally kept his word. I on the other hand was the willing victim..