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It was so fucking unfair that Logan wanted to howl To have the ability to heal his ally but not the strength made him furious--made him want to lash out and drain every blooded human he could find Take their power and leave their corpses to rot Why should he even care anymore what happened to the humans?

Tho Logan to look up This was the part he hatedDrake’s friends with the weight of grief Living with that weight himself

"How bad is it?" asked Thoan just shook his head "I can ease his pain It won’t last long"

"No," said Helen Her voice was thin and high and breathless Al to die"

Denial It always happened and Logan hated every fucking second of it "I’m sorry, Helen"

"You don’t understand He can’t die He has to watchabout, but soed at a memory

"We don’t have tiet out of here"

Logan picked up Drake’s heavy body, being careful to avoid getting cut by Drake’s sword The flarip Thomas took Helen by the arulfed by flames Thankfully, she was too worried over Drake to really notice A small favor

Sirens screa It was tio

They laid Drake in the back of the van on a clean white blanket He didn’t even groan The stench of burning flesh stung Logan’s nose and made his empty stomach tith nausea

Helen scraan stopped her "Don’t touch hih pain as it is"

Helen sed hard and nodded Tears welled up and slid down her dirty cheek

♥

Chapter 6

The van swayed as it turned a corner, knocking Helen’s head against theto be a bumpy ride"

Helen didn’t even feel the impact She was numb Overloaded She couldn’t take this all in The ain Drake’s horrible burns It was all tooinside her had just shut down She felt as if she wereanything The only thing that stood out a all the fuzziness was her certainty that Drake would live She held on to that, knowing it was the only thing keeping her going right now And she had to keep going Miss Mabel still needed her to focus, to get her home safely

"Will they be able to help hian

His skin had lost all its color and he looked gaunter than before He was still beautiful, but there was a fragileness about him now that hadn’t been there before He looked tired Frail Even his voice sounded weak "We’re not going to a hospital"

"We have to He needs help"

"They can’t help hiht about arguing, but bit her tongue She was out of her league here She was floundering around trying to figure out as happening to her nor was the saain

"How’s it going back there?" asked Tho hands held control of the wheel without effort

"Not great How hway in five minutes It’s another fifteen to the house I’ve put in a call for help and we should have sooing to last that long," said Logan His voice was even, but there was a er on his face that he didn’t bother to hide from her

"What’s a Gerai?" asked Helen "Medicine? A doctor?"

Logan pressed his elegant hand against Drake’s brow The side of his face was burned beyond recognition, and if he did survive, the scars would be horrific

Which didn’t synch up with her vision at all For the first ti to doubt that the vision was real She wanted to be relieved by that hope, but not if itto suffer She just wished she’d knohat he’d been doing when he knocked her down She would have stopped him She wasn’t sure how, but maybe she could have found a way

"No," replied Logan "A Gerai is a special kind of person who can donate blood to help Drake Though I’m not sure that even that will help at this point"

"I’ll donate if it will help How can I tell if I’an looked up at her, and soh those silvery blue eyes For a second, he no longer looked beautiful He looked deadly Hungry

The look was gone so quickly, she alined it Allance toward Tho to see whether anyone atching hih to hear over the sound of the van "You would share your blood?"

"Will it help?"

"Absolutely"

"How?"

"I am able to use the power in your blood to heal"