Our kiss was wild, teeth clashing and tongues sparring. My mouth moved against his roughly, frantically, as if I were trying to devour him. Need consumed me, and he tasted so very good. "Ellis," I whimpered against him. "My sweet Lily," he said fiercely, and he tore the blankets away from my skin with one arm, the other against my back, holding me against him. "Let me change you. Let me keep you safe." I trembled in his arms. "But...then what happens to me? If you change me?" "You become part of my clan," he said, pressing quick, eager kisses to my neck and moving to my ear. "You become one of us and then I claim you as mine because we both know that you belong with me." "Because you love me?" "Because you're my entire world," he said softly into my ear, then nipped it with his teeth. "Because if you leave me now, I'm nothing but an empty shell without you." I moaned, my hands reaching up to twine my fingers in his hair. "Will you get in trouble if you change me?" I remembered his words about Marie and Josh, and how Josh had risked everything to turn her, and she'd been dying.
