The moment Derek returned, the first words that came out of his lips were: "I need to go to the lighthouse."
We often retreated to the lighthouse whenever he felt particularly plagued by his own darkness. I wondered what his father could've told him to once again make him doubt himself. I exchanged glances with Ashley, Paige and Rosa. We had all been seated on the living room couches, talking over the things that Cameron and Liana had said earlier.
"And you should get dressed in something else." He added, "We'll spend the night there."
"We need to have a talk when you get back," Ashley spoke up when I rose from my seat and walked toward him.
I caught the way Derek swallowed hard upon seeing her. A pang of jealousy hit me over the way he looked at her, like he wanted her. I reminded myself that it was only because he'd already had a taste of Ashley's blood and that it had nothing to do with his affections toward me.
