"I'd have a choice?"
"We always have a choice, Genesis."
"So trust me to stay."
He was still again; his heartbeat slowed — I could feel it like it was my own. Finally, he answered with a brisk, "Alright."
We walked in silence back to the car.
"It's safer at the house," he whispered. His gaze no longer had light in it; it was like the conversation sucked all the energy, all the spark from his body, leaving him haunted.
When we walked hand in hand through the door, Mason was waiting. Ethan chucked the berries at Mason's head and dragged me down the hall and up the stairs.
Once we were blanketed in the silence of the bedroom, the doors locked behind us, Ethan turned, his eyes black, his fangs elongated. "Promise me to wait ten minutes."
"What?"
"Ten minutes. When you wake up, wait ten minutes before you decide to leave or stay. At least give me that."
"Okay…" I swallowed the lump in my throat. His heart was breaking, I could feel it, and I had no idea why. "Ten minutes."
His teeth ripped into his wrist, and then that same wrist was pressed against my mouth. "Try to understand…" His last words before sleep overcame me.
Before a dream appeared in front of my eyes.
Before I came face to face with the most beautiful woman in the world. The same one from Ethan's dreams when the transition had occurred.
Her eyes danced with life.
Ethan adored her.
I adored her.
She danced around him.
He laughed and tugged her across his body. "I love you."
"I love you too, silly." She drank from him freely, yet she was human. She had fangs — just like Ethan. But I knew she was human. I could feel it.
"Make me immortal." She pouted, bracing herself over his body. "It's time already."
"After our child is born, it will happen. You know this."
"I'm tired of waiting."
Her pouting was getting on my nerves. Rage poured through me as she dragged her fingernails down his chest. That was my chest; those lips were my lips.
I clenched my fists at my sides and kept watching.
More scenes of them laughing, playing.
I tried to look away, but it was impossible.
Cassius appeared. I flinched, thinking it was a trick, but he was part of the dream.
"And how is my favorite girl?" He kissed her palm.
"Upset." She put her hands on her hips. "He refuses to make me immortal."