Chapter 171 - Bait

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Alyssa waited for Elias on the couch, tapping her foot against the rug impatiently. She was ready to have this important discussion with him.

She had an idea in mind that was completely crazy, but she was going to convince him that it was a good idea.

Maybe even the best idea. He wouldn't like it, but he would have to agree with her.

Close to six o'clock, the door to the loft was unlocked and pushed open as Elias arrived home.

He shed off his suit jacket and crossed over to her, collapsing onto the couch. He stretched his arm out across the back of the couch as he angled his body to face her.

"I got here as fast as I could," he told her.

"Sorry to spring this on you, but I just need to get all of this off my chest," Alyssa said to him as she turned to face him, crossing her legs.

They were due to have this talk anyway. She couldn't keep hiding in his loft, waiting for her life to suddenly go back to normal.

She had to take matters into her own hands, even if that was going to be dangerous.

Elias nodded, his eyebrows knitting together slightly as he peered at her.

"What's on your mind?" Elias asked her, listening intently.

Alyssa breathed in deeply through her nose before starting to talk.

"I think we need to be a little more proactive when it comes to figuring out who is attacking me," Alyssa told him.

She was tired of sitting around. Obviously, that wasn't working so well since no other clues had come to light.

She didn't feel right just waiting around for something to happen. What if something went terribly wrong?

Elias sighed as he gazed at her, still looking conflicted about the whole thing.

"How are you going to be bait?" he asked her.

Alyssa smiled a little when she realized that he was starting to come around to his plan.

She hadn't gotten the full approval yet, but she knew that she could get it from him if she explained things more.

"They like when I'm alone and when it's night. I'll just walk alone at night until they come for me.

I'll be in a general area so that you can hide and watch," Alyssa told him. "I think a park could be a good area."

Elias nodded.

"Yeah, a park would work," he said.

"Look, it's risky, but it's easy. I can defend myself until you reach me," she said. "I've fought off a vampire before."

Elias grinned a little.

"Yeah, you're a tough little human," he teased her.

Alyssa laughed softly before looking down to see that their hands were still joined. She liked feeling his hands over hers.

She felt comforted like this, and she needed all of the comfort that she could get right now as she prepared to possibly sacrifice herself.

"I believe in us. We could end all of this if the plan works," she told him.

"I know. It's a good plan. I just wish that you didn't have to be bait," Elias admitted to her. He stroked his thumbs over her knuckles.

"I'm willing to do this to put a stop to all of this. It'll be nice to live a normal life again," Alyssa told him. She was willing to put her life on the line for that.

"I feel like you can only have a normal life if I'm not in it," Elias replied. He almost looked sad.

"I think we can work out our own form of normal," Alyssa told him. She didn't want to banish him from her life.

She believed that maybe they could coexist again. They could have dinner together, watch movies, and be friends. Or more.. The potential was there.