The whole time I was making my appearance at the covenant my mind kept wondering back to another time. A much sweeter time where one’s dreams become a world all their own, forming their own new reality. Eryk was watching me as my mind began to wonder back to that time. I felt him touch my arm but it wasn’t his touch that my mind was imaging. I was picturing his hands as they ran over my body. My memories made the vision of it seem so real that I could feel my body reacting to it once again. “Khelec, you alright?” My eyes shifted to an abnormal reddish silver when I heard Eryk’s voice. I realized that it wasn’t the touch that my body was longing for and it filled me with complete aggravation. “I’ve got to get out of here.” Eryk looked at me in total shock as I broke away from his grip then quickly made my depart from the covenant’s safe house. I silently made my way out to the stables and mounted Moon Beams then quickly rode off into the night. I didn’t care what the covenant thought of my actions because there was only one place I wanted to be, only one presence I wanted to feel next to me. After all, they had already since long banished me from the covenant even though I was one of the very few pure bloods remaining. Almost three hours had past when I finally made it back to the cave where I was just with him only the night before. I searched the surrounding area for any signs of movement or life before I dismounted, but found none. The cave was completely cloaked in darkness but his scent remained. The silence within the darkness made my heart sink even further into the loneliness. “How could my heart have bonded with him so strongly and in such a short amount of time?” I asked myself within my own thoughts as I walked over and sat down on the bed of animal skins. As I ran my icy fingers over the furs the memories came rushing back into my mind but this time they seemed even stronger than before.

“Why, dammit?!” I demanded of myself as I felt the blood tears fill my eyes. I then gripped my head in my hands as the feelings overwhelmed me forcing the tears to break free on their own. “How could someone like myself, a pure blood vampire, have fallen in love with one of the clans life long mortal enemy and another male at that?” Even with all the knowledge I possessed it was still truly puzzling to me. The more I thought about it the more my head became clouded making me feel even more lost and exhausted from trying to figure it out.