The Davidson's

As I closed the door behind me, I let out a weary exhale as my trembling knees gave way. 

To be truthfully honest, I haven't got the good grasp of everything. I felt like a child being thrown into the ocean. A child who couldn't swim and could only float along the waves to survive.

It felt like everything I've done and said until now; accepting this marriage, learning, trying to adapt to this new environment as soon as I could was to survive.

Slowly, I bent my knees closer to my chest and hugged them.

"Don't be afraid…?" I mumbled, recalling his previous words in my mind. "How can that be if my body naturally trembles before him?"

I rested my chin on my knees.

His words moved my heart, but my instincts as a human still existed within me. Before a vampire, especially someone like the duke, terrified me.