Chapter 101 - My Angeline

-Stefan-

I stare worriedly at Angeline’s sleeping body and the haunted look she had when Stefan tried to get her.

The last time I saw her like that was when the vampires chased her in the Dark Forest, where she could have died if we had come a minute late.

I looked at the cold soup on my bedside table, untouched by her. I guess seeing the way that Rebecca was about to attack her and seeing what happened to Elias when he defended her has triggered something in her that I can’t really explain and yet I seemed to understand.

I can still hear the fear in her voice when she screams and asks Stefan to leave her alone. And yet when she chose me to stay with her, I couldn’t help but feel happy because it made me feel important to her and that I mattered.

A sigh escaped my lips as my arrogance became clear to me.

Who the hell am I kidding?

I don’t just feel happy, I feel like I won the fucking lottery. For the first time, I felt like I won against Stefan. I’m not saying this in a bad way a