Chapter 34

Alina: “W-why did you t-try to killme t-then?” It was hard to move even one single finger on my left arm, but near death adrenaline rush kept me going. The bag wasn’t far. In fact, it was right under my injured arm, but that arm was almost impossible to move and already starting to swell. Once it has swelled up, it would be utterly impossible to move it. “Oh, I don’t want to kill you! You’re bait!” His words startled me into pausing my movements for just a second before I moved my fingers inside the open zipper of my bag centimetre by painful centimetre. “W-what?” I asked, my voice coming out breathless. Instead of answering, he smiled wide, showing me awfully sharp fangs that were covered with blood. “That I can’t tell you, Alina. Now, answer me. Why doesn’t my compulsion work on you?” He resettled himself so that he was sitting cross-legged on the floor while looking down at me. His behaviour resembled that of a child excited to hear fairy tales from his grandmother. Somehow, his ent