CHAPTER FORTY

"Why were you scared of how you felt...or why didn't you like the way you were feeling towards me? Because I am human?" She asked looking hurt

"No Claire--"

"Then why?"

Jake sighed.

"I felt I couldn't offer you anything more than we already had that night... Didn't think I was capable of falling in Love with a human...after everything they did to my family...my hatred towards them..."

"But?"

"But.... I couldn't get you off my head. I kept thinking about you,Claire... dreaming about you. But I stayed away still. So that night, when I saw you come in through the gate, I got alarmed. I didn't know whether to send you away, ignore you..but I definitely didn't want to face you. I had hoped you would turn back, but you kept coming...."

"So I decided the best way to get rid of you for good....is to scare you away, show you my true self. It hadn't even occurred to me back then to think...what could have brought you to my home at that time of the night. So, I turned ..and you saw."

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