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the pillow. There was still this heavy exhaustion hanging on me, like I was sleeping underneath a
weighted blanket, but I could faintly hear movement in the room and I just wanted Jack back in
bed with me.
The light was still in, so I blinked through my groggy vision as my eyes started to adjust. I tried to
left up my head, but that required far too much strength. Using all my effort, I managed to roll onto
my back and tried to make sense of the room. Jack was pacing the room, but when he saw me
starting to wake up, he stood at the end of the bed and just watched me. His arms were folded
over his chest and his eyes looked moist.
This is why Peter tried to send you away, Jack whispered to himself and swallowed hard.
What? My voice was barely above a whisper, and it was taking everything I had to manage that.
Jack? What are you doing? Come back to bed& Languidly, I patted the empty spot next to me,
hoping to entice him back in bed.
I can t get back in bed with you! Jack insisted his fiercely, and he smiled sadly at me. I
shouldn t even be in the same room with you. I obviously can t be around you anymore.
No, Jack. Fear was starting to energize me a bit more, and I struggled to sit up. My mind was
covered in a thick fog, and I could still felt the way his heart beat with mine. It was hard to think of
a rational argument.
Jack, just please. Can t we sleep? And we ll talk about this later. But you can t& just& not be
around me.
We need to talk to Ezra. I think I may have just killed you.
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I m clearly not dead, Jack, I shook my head, not understanding what he meant.
Maybe there s still time. Maybe we can do something. He wasn t looking at me anymore. His
mind was working overtime, trying to think of some way out of this. You ve got to get up. We
have to go now.
But I am so tired! I whined and fell backwards on the bed. I didn t have the strength to argue
anymore. He was saying things that were potentially very serious, but my eyes were already
closing.
Alice! Jack shouted, and it startled me enough where my eyes opened up again. You have to
get up!
No! I rolled over and buried my face in the pillow. You have to come back to bed! That s what
we ll do. Compromise.
That s not a compromise at all, he sighed. The bed shifted as he sat down next to me, and
hesitantly, he touched my back. Alice. Come on. You have to do this. We have to talk to him.
Maybe there s something he can do. Your neck hasn t completely healed yet.
I don t care! I am so tired, Jack! I ve never been this tired in my entire life! I was shouting, or at
least trying to, but if Jack hadn t had better hearing, he wouldn t have been able to hear me.
That s because you just lost about two pints of blood, and you only had seven to begin with, so
your body s weak right now. Which is also why we need to get up, so I can make sure that you re
okay. He shook my back, and I tried to pull away from him, not that I got very far. Alice. Get up.
After that, he was done arguing. Part of his insistence came from how nervous my current state
made him, and he wanted Mae and Ezra to check me out to make sure I wasn t about to keel
over. He got up, and gently but firmly, he started pulling me out of bed. I offered some kind of
complaint, but he didn t listen.
I m not wearing any clothes, I insisted in my tired whine. I was still in the robe, but that didn t
really constitute as clothes. Standing up made me feel dizzy, and I want to sit back down, but he
held me in place until I stopped swaying.
I ll get you clothes. But you have to stay standing up. You need to try waking up a little bit. He
was holding me steady, and cautiously he let me go. When I didn t collapse backwards, he
hurried to get me something to wear.
I don t understand why this can t wait until I ve had a bit more sleep. What time is it? I yawned
loudly.
Um, it s a little after nine in the morning, Jack answered as he rummaged through his closet. He
came out a second later carrying a tee shirt and drawstring sweats. Here.
How are you so alert? Milo was like& out after he bit Jane. I shivered involuntarily at the
thought of it and took the clothes from him.
He s still young. It effects him a lot harder than it does me, he replied absently. Put on the
clothes.
I don t want to.
I tried sitting down, but he grabbed my arm to stop me. I just stood there then, fighting to keep my
eyes open. Obviously, since standing and opening my eyes were a chore, I wasn t really up to
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getting dressed, so Jack took it upon himself. Later on, I d be incredibly embarrassed, but at the
time, I was just grateful that I didn t have to do it myself. He gently pushed off the robe, and pulled
the shirt over my head. I tried to help get my arms through the sleeves of the tee shirt, but I
somehow got tangled up. Getting dressed had never been so complicated. He let me sit down to
put on my pants, but I ended up actually laying down, and I instantly fell asleep. In ten seconds it
took him to get my pants and pull me into standing up, I had fallen asleep.
Alice, Jack pleaded with me, trying to get me to stand again, but I wasn t having any of it.
Finally, he just gave up on it. At least I was dressed. He scooped me into his arms, and my head
lolled into his shoulder. The rest of me just hung there, limply. I wanted to put my arms around his
neck, but I was already falling sleep. There was the sense of motion, and the next thing I knew,
we were downstairs, and he was trying to get me to stand up again. The hardwood floors felt too
cold and slippery, and I couldn t do it.
Alice, you re not even trying, he sighed. His arm was around me, trying to just be supportive. My
legs weren t doing anything productive, so my weight was entirely on him. Alice! Come on.
Just let me sit down. I decided that would fix everything somehow, if I could just sit down that [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]