Chapter Fifty Three

I watched as realisation and understanding became horror and disgust and then to concern for me. "No wonder you make him sound like a monster. He is being a monster."

"Precisely." I whispered.

"You're scared."

"Why shouldn't I be? I'd never had to fend off a vampire I couldn't stake before. The very idea of it terrifies me, Christian. It's so primal and not in a good way. It's almost like he wants to tie me to him."

"A vampire's bite can do that. That's why Moroi usually change their humans after a while and they almost never take from the same human on two consecutive days. They'd always alternate so that the bond would never become strong enough for the human to become attached and vice versa. Of course, there are some humans who are more vulnerable than that but it's rare."

"That must be one heck of a difficult system to try and manage. I'd hate to be in the department that administrates all that."

"It must be so boring as well and if something goes wrong, you'd end up in serious t