Tala I try running. Although, being able to keep up with the wolves all my life is no match for a perilous man that moves with the shadows. The universe is pushing us together, begging for us to rekindle a love from a past lifetime. I don't want to defy it. I want our bodies molded, our hearts beating in tandem and thumping their melody into each other. But I'm prone to getting dragged into the swallowing darkness-and I'm grieving while processing trauma. I cannot fall into another monster's trap. Jax The most captivating and darkly ethereal woman to walk this Earth is haunting my mind, eradicating the ruthless wrath that has plagued my life and turned me into a merciless zombie. She's mine. And she's aware of that. She just... needs time. Perhaps a blood contract. My vendetta has granted me incredible patience. But the cord keeping it tethered to my conscience grows impossibly thin the longer I watch her, the more I map out her feminine vessel. She may just make it snap.