Chapter 31

Ben Wake

Watching Ivy get into Nathan's car just pulls the heart right out of me. Seeing her get into any car at this moment would, but somehow it seems to pull at me harder that she is driving away from me with an old friend that she has known for most of her life. If she had caught a ride with some random stranger coming up the highway, it would have hurt to know that I was sending her away, breaking her heart, because we are not meant to be together. That would give me a sense that she is continuing to live her life, to keep moving on with her life after our brief happy and troubled time together. All relations between vampires and the warm have to end with the warm one moving on somehow, whether by simply leaving the relationship, dying, or turning.