Chapter 10: Delicate

*Three Years Earlier*

Kate was exhausted. An intense bone-weariness had settled in after Samhain and never quite left her as the days went by. The rest of the coven seemed normal while she felt like she was stuck in a fugue state of not wanting to really do anything except lie down on her bed and sleep the hours away. She still went to her classes and did all her schoolwork as to not alert the professors that something was amiss.

What made her feel worse was the sight of Theo looking healthy and happy now that the blood curse wasn't adamantly trying to killing him. His appetite must've returned as he was no longer looking skeletal and his skin wasn't so sickly pale. He looked alive, thriving, like he'd never been sick at all. And it incensed her that it was because of her, her magic and life force giving him all this vitality while she felt like a dying weed as a result.