Chapter 164

ALEXANDROS Is this insanity? The final desperate act of a man who has not yet accepted that his world has ended? Perhaps. Probably. But I would try anything to hear her say my name once more. I dip my head and sink my fangs into her throat. The sweet nectar of her blood suffuses my mouth. Please come back to us, agápi mou. I know you are still here somewhere. Please. Her blood trickles slowly into my mouth, filling me with everything she is. I slice a cut onto my tongue and let it flow into her vein. Ophelia. Please! We cannot live without you. Her heart beats. Once. Twice. Or am I imagining it? Wanting it so desperately that I am hearing and feeling things that are not there? Ophelia, I plead, allowing more of my lifeblood to slip into her vein. “I’m here.” Her voice is a mere whisper, but she may as well have roared the declaration. I pull my teeth from her throat in time to see her eyelids flutter open. The cries of elation from Axl, Malachi, and Xavier surround the two of us, and s