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He expected her to sink back down in exhaustion, her frenetic fit of energy draining her, but instead she twisted around to catch his face in treers Her ue plunging in, her insistence such that her new fangs scraped his lips The grip on his shoulders tightened, a strength in her hands that hadn’t been there a blink before
Instinctive resistance stiffened hi on Gideon’s collarbone "Easy, vampire hunter" His voice was barely a murmur, such that he wasn’t even sure Anwyn heard it "She’s all right She’s just using the power she knows, to command a man’s body" While he wasn’t thrilled to be touched by the vamp, the quick, neutral tap of those thuhtened wos in her own unique way, not an attacking va to focus on sos so close to his throat
When a turning first happened, there was a short, intense adrenaline surge, which he expected had been spent by the stress of what Barnabus had done to her That first surge was followed by weakness, which she’d been de up until now, but then bloodlust and fits of vain to occur in unpredictable staccato bursts that would get longer and longer, until the savage bloodlust took over entirely Without the blood of the sire, as Daegan had said, it would descend into perh the worst of those cycles with Jacob during the first week or so, though of course his brother hadn’t felt the need to , because Gideon would have staked hi took her Strength drained away, the fit passing and weakness returning
"Feels wrong," she gasped as her hands slipped off his shoulders Gideon caught her waist again as she swayed "Sick, Daegan I feel so sick"
"Let’s get her in the tub," Daegan advised, threading his hand through her hair andher eyes "She’s not going to throw up yet It’s just the body’s conversion--"
"Not physical," she snapped, her head jerking up "It’s like bees, and boiling" With a howl, she clapped her hands to her head, her nails digging in
Christ, the nails Gideon rean, while not re any sooner, had vampire reflexes He snatched her hands away from her face a mere second after she sliced herself with the razor blades fitted beneath the tips, leaving a shallow cut across her cheek that had come perilously close to the eyes
"Those need to coain"
"No" She tried to yank back froan her wrists"Don’t touch h it caer fortunately wasn’t backed by another round of that burgeoning new strength As Gideon held her, Daegan did it, so quick he saw only brief flashes as he skinned the nails as smoothly as a pear’s skin The lethal tips hit the floor with tiny plinks
"Anwyn"Daegan caught her shoulders
The vah the bathrooenerals--not to ive a left nut to freeze an did with two syllables Who the hellwas this guy?
"That’s enough,cherWe are trying to help, not hurt you" Anas breathing hard "I know, I know" When she sagged back into Gideon, he closed his arht at her distress "I can’t bear this Oh God, Daegan, I can’t control it"
"You don’t need to" Kneeling before her, he cradled her face With his knee pressed to the outside of Gideon’s, the vah for Gideon to see the strain around his mouth "You’re here, with us I’ve never known your intuition to be wrong,cher , and you have asked the two of us to be with you Which means you know you can trust us to care for you, no ht?" She lowered her head, pressing her face deeper into his hands, even as her fingers increased their clasp on Gideon’s forear the crown of her head, let his lips linger there