ADRIAN

So this is what it felt like. The moment her teeth sank into my neck, the world exploded. Heat, light, something ancient and undeniable seared through my veins. I couldn’t breathe, couldn’t think. I just felt my soul tethering to hers. And just like that, the past came to me.

The crumpled paper in my hands. The shaky handwriting. The words that had haunted me for years.

Adrian, she had written, I don’t even know how to write this without breaking both of us. ...