It was time to make a very difficult decision: do I stay and continue to protect my best friend from the Strigoi or do I honor the promise I made to the love of my life during one of our previous conversations? He and I agreed that we would rather be dead than one of them. My heart is being ripped in two and I know regardless of the choice I have to make someone will be hurt. I love them both so much and it pains me to walk away from one of them but this is something I need to do.