章 989: Strength in Submission

For some reason, I was calm. 

Much too calm for the kind of news I was hearing, I would think. Maybe it just hadn't settled. Maybe I just didn't understand yet. Adalia taking control of me….

No, I knew exactly what that meant. 

It's the 'why' factor I was only struggling to decipher. 

"Do you remember the last time a vampire took control of you?" Irene said, laying out what I assumed to be the beginning thread of the thoughts and reasons that led to the birth of this… let's say interesting… idea of hers. 

I still was unsure what to make of any of it yet, so I just went along with it for the time being.

"Yeah, kinda," I replied. "Details are very fuzzy though. I only remember waking up."