I sneered as I straightened myself up. “I don’t care if you want me dead or not. I want Jiro dead.”

Lie. You love him.

I winced as my heart squeezed as punishment for lying. “Jiro is the key to my adulthood. He is the only key I have.”

“You fell in love with the wrong guy, bloodsucker.” Leo said.

I laughed. “You’re right. I fell in love with someone I don’t want to kill. But it seems that I want to kill him more than to love him.”

“Then that’s not love.” Leo glared.

I laughed again. “Like you experienced love.”

Leo took a few steps closer, his dagger in hand. “More than you have and you ever will in your long lonesome life.”

He strikes, flicking the dagger towards me. I dodged. Leo loaded his gun from his jacket and pointed at me. I froze.

"Leave and I'll let you live another day."

I nodded. "I won't die even if it's just one day. I have seven more days to kill him." And I disappeared into the night.

"Failed." Alistair said as he rode the wind with me.

"Seven days. I'll be fine." I told him.