CHAPTER 96

ARIA

I honestly didn't know what was wrong. I thought I was healing nice and well. What was happening then? I had a fever, worse than I have ever experienced and the lack of appetite that came along with it as a bonus was the major part. I could hardly sleep for two days now.

It wasn't from my recent near death wound. The skin around it was dry and it only pained when agreessively pressed down on . Or was my body finally taking a toll on me? This morning, I woke up with extreme weakness and tiredness. I could hardly lift myself from the bed until I gathered momentum for long minutes and my breakfast, just water.

"You need to eat, Aria. You have to try. Look, you have been getting paler and paler, surely you know what I must mean. You're so white, you almost look like a dead body!" Ferris always hammered on my white complexion, thanks to the vampires and now that I was pale, I understood what she meant. There was almost no difference between a corpse and I.

I really tried. But today