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“Elijah, no,” I cry.

He looks at me sadly. “Yes,” he says gently. His lips touch my ear, his voice below a whisper. “You have to.”

He tries to be as quiet as he can but there is still a chance she can hear us. “I won’t leave you,” I say just as softly.

“Kitty Cat, I need you to,” he begs. “You are fast.”

“I can’t,” I say, clasping the top of his jeans. “I need to be with you.”

“I know. I need to be with you, too, but I have to take care of this.”

“Elijah,” Tiffany sings. “What’s taking so long? If she doesn’t go, I can just kill her.”

“Just wait a fucking minute,” he grunts, his teeth clenched.

“Don’t make me leave you.” My eyes fill with tears. Maybe we can take her. Vampires are more powerful than most shifters. We don’t know what tricks she has learned. But together maybe it’s possible.

“It’s not,” he says, reading my face easily. “We couldn’t.”

“No, please,” I beg.

“Baby, do you remember the night we went out?”

His random question startles me. “Yes.”

“You remember all the people you met?”

“I do.” The panthers.

“All the ones that you wished you could?”

The vampires weren’t there. The dragons either. The wolves. “Of course.”

“Run.” He kisses my ear. “Run, and think about that night.”

“I’m running out of patience,” Tiffany hisses.

“Fuck, Saylor, please.” He runs his thumb over my lips. “Run, baby.”

I look at his pleading eyes and nod reluctantly.

He mouths the words,See you soon.

“I’m going to rip her heart from her body if she doesn’t leave in three seconds,” Tiffany yells.

“Go,” Elijah says, nudging me away from the tree.

Fuck.

I run.

And I run.

As the tears fall down my cheeks, I run faster than I ever have.

He was right. A vampire is lethal in most cases, but a deranged one who faked her death and has found him after all this time is deadly. She wants my mate. It’s tearing me up inside that I left him. If I stayed, she would have killed me in front of Elijah. I saw it in her eyes. I couldn’t do that to him.

My legs fly across the grass. My body fluidly threads through the trees. My heart is breaking as I get further and further away from Elijah.