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blood?"
    Laurent responded by deepening his bite.
    "No matter what I say or don’t say, you find a reason to do this to me. And I always forgive you. Why can’t you do the same for me?"
    Liana’s vision grew darker, just like the linens beneath her gashed neck. Mortality ebbed. Death beckoned with false fingers. Liana’s memories swam and golden visions visited her with lamenting grace.
    She was right. I destroy.
    Your life is gone. Cristophe is gone. I shouldn’t have tried to cheat you. But I did and now you have paid a bitter price indeed.
    Will I ever be able to make this right?
    Laurent ripped his fangs from her torn, bloodied flesh. He gripped her chin and stared down into lifeless sage. "You deserve to die. I’ll finally be done with you if I do it."
    "It won’t change anything." The brittle whisper held the power of a thousand screams. "But I welcome you to try, Laurent."
    Sorrow replaced fury. "I should…"
    Liana could barely keep conscious. Her ears felt as if they were stuffed with wads of dense wool. Her pupils left only a thin ring of emerald to denote her eye color. She swallowed with difficulty.
    "Do it, Laurent."
    "I can. I can kill you."
    Liana’s throat felt chalky like her bleached skin. "Then do it. Do it now. Change our fate, Laurent, and do it now!" she cried out in agony before slipping beneath the growing waves of her flailing senses.
    No, damnit! I have to be stronger!
    As always, it was too late for Liana.
    I can’t fight…
    Indecision melted beneath the fires of determination, leaving Laurent’s inhuman gaze to glitter with bliss. "I should but I won’t."
    He brushed his ruby lips against hers. He smiled when her tongue shot out and lapped up the glistening beads. Laurent watched in besotted fascination when Liana mewled, even as her face crumpled in torment.
    "Do you want more?" he crooned.
    Beyond herself, she nodded her head with sudden, frantic vigor.
    Laurent settled his mouth across hers. He smirked as her voracious lips and tongue cleansed him of every bloody drop.
    Numbness disintegrated while agonizing needles pricked Liana’s skin to life. She turned her head away. Instead of cherishing her apparent stay of execution, Liana suffered more intensely than before.
    Now there’s only one way out.
    "I want to make you mine. Only mine. Do you hear me?"
    "I’m already yours," she replied. Her broken tone did nothing to take away his satisfaction.
    "No. I’m going to make you like me. Tonight."
    She feigned surprise. "What?"
    "I said I’m going to make you like me." Laurent drew the words out, speaking to Liana as if she were a precocious child.
    "You can’t!" False panic laced her shrill tone. "You can’t make me like you, Laurent!"
    "I can and I will."
    "No!" She was nothing more than a doll, empty of truth and the epitome of illusion. "Please don’t!"
    Laurent heard the subtle notes of Liana’s despair. Empathy softened his posture. "I won’t be cruel when I bring you across, little bird." He brushed back her damp hair. "Your rebirth won’t be like mine. I promise you."
    "Laurent, you cannot make me a vampire. You’re still a fledgling. You don’t know how to do it yet."
    Laurent’s expression turned mean and forbidding. "Watch your tongue before I truly lose all mercy with you!" He rolled away from her. "I’m lord here. I can do whatever I want. I don’t care what you think."
    Liana accepted his petulance, bitterly understanding there was nothing else she could do.
    "I’m turning you. Me."
    "Fine." Worthlessness consumed her. Liana turned on her side, away from him.
    "Cristophe could be your lover, father, friend…I don’t care! I’m going to be more to you than him."
    "You already are."
    Laurent put his hand on her shoulder. "Why aren’t you fighting me?"
    "Because it doesn’t matter."
    Her spiritless answer spurred Laurent to push Liana onto her back. "Didn’t you hear me? I’m going to make you an abomination."
    Acid burned her eyes. She kept them open and