Sterling looked at me in anguish, I didn't know what was wrong and I didn't have the confidence to ask him. He seemed to stumble, stammer over his words now when usually he spoke like ancient royalty. I stood concrete still because either of two things could have happened: Sterling was dying or I would die trying to keep him alive. Finally, he spoke "you have such a sweet, pure spirit Amy, you have no idea how much I want to take your soul from your body, draining your energy until your body falls to the earth. " I thought for a second, I almost told him to do it but the truth is I wouldn't know where my soul would go.
I was disillusioned by the religious teaching I grew up with. I didn't dare defy God in the presence of my parents, who believed if you obey him your soul goes to Heaven. Looking into his dark eyes that seem to change to the deepest of black as his dilated pupils focused on me, he left me breathless. Sterling was sexy in a way that I knew I shouldn't want but couldn't help myself from desiring. He was unfamiliar only due to how he carried himself, like an heir. Yet when I was in his presence I felt fearless, free and home. So, I couldn't leave him here even as he grappled with killing me only because for the first time in my life I was sure I had met the only person that would never hurt me, Sterling Kane, the soul stealing vampire.
"Keep away from me, he said."
"No, I said. I'm not leaving you here, you're hurt."
"You're the reason why I'm hurting Amy, now move!" Sterling shouted, slowly falling away and I lept forward to catch him. He warned me for the second time, stern like the time my father told me not to touch the water heater in the basement even when I knew how to get it back on so I wouldn't be freezing in the dead New Jersey winter waiting for him to get off work.
" .Touch. Me!" Sterling yelled and it snapped me out of my memory of being scalded by boiling hot water heater. I just replaced that image with him, because if I didn't bother the water heater I would have never been burned; yet as much as Sterling tried to push me away, warned me not to help him in his most painful I wanted to touch him, for him to touch me. I walked closer to him and my once chilled body felt hot in the blizzard, I looked in his eyes grabbing his hand. "Stop Amy, I don't want to hurt you." Sterling said but I ignored him and I felt electric sparks all over me I it was fire, pain and then the greatest sensation I've ever felt; then everything faded to black.
