"I frightened him. I... I panicked. I keep doing that around him. I'm losing my mind. I feel like I've been losing it ever since all this happened." Asher just didn't know what 'all this' was anymore. Was he meaning how everything crashed and burned with Brodie, their relationship ending for his stupid errors and fucking up the most amazing thing to ever happen to him? He didn't know what he meant, he just knew that Brodie was dying, and he was nursing him in his arms like he could break at any moment. "But I didn't mean to do it. I haven't fed from him beyond that one time, and I was in a frenzy. I don't remember a lot about it. I just... his scent was all over him and I lost it. I didn't even know where to find him until then..."

He trailed off, looking down at Brodie again. "I just think he is ill. I think he does need a doctor. I don't know what he's dying from. We haven't spoken, I never knew if I wanted to approach him. I could sense him here in the city and I have been searching for him. Searching so, so much. I never meant to harm him. I never wanted to hurt him or to lose him. I couldn't go on without him. I tried to get him back, but he didn't want that. It was like I couldn't breathe," he tried to explain, looking at the Prince imploringly, hoping like hell he would get it.