Chapter Forty

There were still a matter of hours before the full moon would rise and I already felt terrible.  In fact, the sensations in my body were so strange and awful that I couldn’t even accurately describe them to anyone if I tried.  Every inch of me twitched and ached, from my bones to my muscles.

Since I’d never experienced this before, I suspected that it had to do with the fact that I had Caleb’s venom inside of me.  I would have confirmed it with him, but he was nowhere to be found.  After I’d submitted so willingly to him a few nights earlier, he’d not returned.  It was almost as if he’d lost interest after a successful conquest of my body.

Since I’d arrived almost a week earlier, I’d not been allowed out of my room.  The only faces I’d seen were Caleb, Philip, and Danica.  Kenzie returned several times over the course of the few days, but was unsuccessful in getting near me. It was