Page 106 of B Positive

Hands on my upper arms. “It’s all right, Eden. She’ll rise a vampire, like you.”

I shrugged out of those hands. “She didn’t want this,” I murmured.

“Come on, Eden. Let’s get out of here.”

I turned to face that rumbly voice. The traitorous face. The vampire king who’d lied to me from the very start. “Don’t you tell me what to do, vampire.” I spat the word like the insult I meant it as and Julian stepped back, dismay plain on his features.

“Eden, whatever Titus said—”

“I don’t want to hear it, Julian. I want no part of this. No part of this game or this life, and I especially want no part ofyou.”

Julian stumbled backward, his face stricken.

And I drove the nail in his coffin home. “I reject you, Julian. I reject this bond. I reject this life.”

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