72~ True love's kiss

Manuel.

I should have died.

When Luca stabbed me after I begged him to kill me through the mindlink, I felt death calling out to me. It was so close.

I had managed to stop myself from drinking more of Lea’s blood but I knew I wouldn’t be able to hold myself back for long. The only option was to die.

Lea’s distraught look broke my heart when she saw the wound on my chest not healing. I had promised to be there for her but I failed.

I had already failed her as a mate five years ago… knowing I was doing the same thing five years later made me feel terrible.

But what was done was done. Soon, I felt myself slip away and was plunged into darkness. Only, I didn’t move on to the afterlife but I wandered around for three hundred years in the spiritual realm with the woman who had sat back and watched us suffer.

Time worked differently here. One day on earth was a hundred in the spiritual realm. And fuck, it was hectic to endure all those years without Lea. The only thing that kept