
She had no thought of doing it before she did it, and afterward she could scarcely believe what she had done. "Where's Stefan?"Ī line appeared between Damon's dark eyebrows. Every instinct that had lain quiet while she shouted into the violence of the wind was now begging her to run. She reeled back a couple of steps before she could stop herself. At that distance, she should have sensed another human being standing there, should have felt his body warmth or heard him. He was just behind her, so close that her clothes brushed his as she turned. "Damn you, answer me!" she shouted at the oak trees that bordered the graveyard.Ī dead oak leaf like a withered brown hand skittered up to her foot, but there was no answer. If Damon had done anything to Stefan, if Damon had hurt him. The thought of that same Power being turned against Stefan woke a hot fury inside her that burned against the wind. This weather was a show of his Power, meant to frighten her away. Elena's hands were cold, her lips and cheeks were numb, but she stood facing the screaming wind directly, shouting into it. Oak leaves swirled among the rows of granite headstones, and the trees lashed their branches together in frenzy. Determined to have Elena, he'd kill to possess her.Ĭollected here in one volume for the first time, volumes one and two of The Vampire Diaries, the tale of two vampire brothers and the beautiful girl torn between them.Icy wind whipped Elena's hair around her face, tearing at her light sweater. Stefan: brooding and mysterious, he seems to be the only one who can resist Elena, even as he struggles to protect her from the horrors that haunt his past.ĭamon: sexy, dangerous, and driven by an urge for revenge against Stefan, the brother who betrayed him.

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