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canisters were in sight so any petty complaint I had bottled up didn’t matter anymore.
    He
    unscrewed the lid, and I almost ripped it from his hands. Hurriedly, I downed it, and Ezra just watched me
    with an odd look of fascination on his face. That wonderful warming effect spread out over me, and I held
    out my hand for a second can.
    “Get ready for bed first,” he shook his head. “I’m not getting you in your pajamas after your passed
    out.”
    “Fine. Look away.” It was actually a smart idea, but I was pouty about it anyway.
    Ezra did as he was told, and I took off my clothes as quickly as I possible could. That really didn’t end
    up being all that fast because that tired, loose feeling was taking over me, and I almost fell over just taking off
    my shirt. Somewhere in the room, I knew I had clean pajamas, but the ones I wore last night were just laying
    on the bed, and they weren’t that dirty, so I pulled them on. When putting on my pants, I fell back on the bed
    and didn’t bother to get up again.
    “Done,” I announced and held out my hand again.
    “You’re going to have to learn to take it easier on these. I don’t think I packed enough for you keep
    going at this rate,” Ezra warned, but he cracked a can open and handed it to me.
    “I thought you’d be an over packer,” I said before gulping it down.
    “I am.” He looked at me severely, then sat on his bed across from me.
    “It’s the sun,” I told him, and my words had already started getting that slurred edge to them. All the
    colors in the room were spectacularly bright, and this deep relaxation flooded over me. “The sun is super
    draining. I don’t think I can go back out in again, not like that. And then walking around for like seventeen
    hours? It’s just too much for me…”
    “It’s not too much for you,” Ezra shook his head again as he watched me struggle to stay sitting up
    and conscious. “You have almost infinite power, Alice. You’ve got to stop thinking like you’re human.”
    “You are!” I spouted, but clearly, that didn’t make sense.
    “Yes, of course, I am,” he rolled his eyes.
    When he opened his own canister to drink, my body tried to insist that I was still thirsty. I craned
    towards him woozily, and he smiled at my own greed. There was no way I could get up and walk across to his
    bed, so it wasn’t like I could steal it from him. He drank his at a much slower rate, and I wondered how he
    could do that. As soon as it hit my lips, I had to have it all, as fast as I could.
    I started to ask him a question, but I didn’t even know what it was, so I let myself fall back on the bed.
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    Pleasure was rolling over me, and I didn’t want to fight it anymore. I know Ezra wanted to me express more
    self-control, but then again, he already claimed that I was expressing self-control. If this was me under control
    compared to other vampires, then I’d hate to see what they were like.
    “Oh… the lycans are worse then this, aren’t they?” I groaned.
    “I don’t really understand the question.” Ezra got up and walked over to me. “Why don’t you get
    some sleep, Alice? You’ve had a long day. Get under the covers.”
    Naturally, since I couldn’t even really sit up, I couldn’t crawl under the covers. Ezra lifted me up, drew
    back the covers, then laid me back down and tucked me in. There was something really great about that, even
    without the whole blood-high. I couldn’t even remember the last time I had been really
    tucked in. Jack would
    kind of do it sometimes, but it was different because he was my boyfriend. Before I had time to really figure
    out how this was different, I passed out.

Chapter 5
    Dazzling green lights flashed across the clear night sky. We had been crossing another river when I happened
    to look up and notice the aurora borealis dancing above us. I stopped where I was on the frozen shore and
    just stared at them in awe. They were breathtakingly beautiful, and even Ezra