ANNE

“ Anne. ” Zero whispers my name, making it sound so sweet, so meaningful.

When I don’t answer, he pushes me away to look at my face.

“ Did someone do something to you? ” Furiously, he hisses at me.

“ Yes. ” My eyes snap open, narrowing into slits. “ You are still asking. Don’t you know already? They almost killed me because of you. ”

I shrug off his hands and stand up. “ I just realized what this means to stay under the same roof as some deranged vampires like you. ”

The wall in my head shuts down, keeping all emotions trapped inside as I spit poison at him.

“ What happened? ” Zero is out of bed and over my head in no time.

He is seething, so enraged that the veins in his neck are poking out.

“ I don’t want to be here. I don’t want to die for you. ” I whisper.

“ You don’t want to stay?” Zero frowns.

I shake my head, gulping all tears down. He will never know.

“ Do you want me to take you away? ” He steps forth only to see me stepping back from him.

“ I promised your father th