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"She’s my responsibility I won’t leave her She’smy blood-soaked hair

"This won’t escape the Tribunal’s notice"

"They made this decision for me"

She snorted and left without another word

"Someone needs to help her," Holden said, presuh his eyes never left mine

"How?" This fro a hand over my shredded neck It took several seconds before I noticed his touch

"Like an IV?" Do nearby

"No" Holden shook his head "No, she needs to drink blood"

"Why?" Do to accept the obvious answer

"Va went dark

Chapter Thirty-Six

When I woke up it wasn’t froence I ca car, only so in so an to ask, but lass and I couldn’t say anything more

"Shhh," was the response

I looked up and saw a bandaged wrist, and beyond that the drawn, tired sain,"Holden told us we need to take you so you there"

After a tentative pause I touched the bandage on his wrist, relieved I was able to h to do so I knehat it iven me his blood so I could live But it also meant he knew the truth now, or at least a variation of the truth as he chose to understand it

"Sorry" I azed at hiain? I was sure I would lose him and Desht at the thought of going back to the lonely life I’d had before their ro up

"It’s okay" He brushedmy promise"

I didn’t knohat heto the drea, which made me wonder how much truth there was to my daytime reveries If Lucas and I really had shared a dream and that’s how he’d found me, there was more to this soul-bond…

My head swa at once

I smiled and he returned it, but neither of our expressions was happy I drifted out again and when I awoke he was gone

This ti draped across the coht, but it didn’t take long to realize it wasn’t burning le bone in my body, every inch of skin, every joint and hts before, and I had been left in bad shape, but never inonly to have hie I was alive if I wasn’t so painfully aware of it

"You’re up!"

The cheeriness of this voice was alht and hurt nearly as much I winced in the direction of a chair next to the bed

"Brigit?"

"Hi!"

The blonde vampire was perched next toand straight, held back by a sapphire-colored headband Even as a va the day on a beach in California It pleasedso happy, but I couldn’t focus on it for long My body hurt too it understood the unspoken question, confirht you in He ith the wolves The cute one you hen I carinned, flashing her pageant-queen teeth at me "They couldn’t coht It’s really too bad I mean, I like Calliope and all, but you’d think in a place that can adjust to the needs and wants of those who live here, therehair over her shoulder