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Instead of strea from the wounds, the blood slowed to a trickle, then finally stopped
She collapsed on the floor beside the bed and burst into tears
"There, lass" Angus patted her shoulder " ’Twill be all right"
"But he’s lost so much blood," she wailed
"Aye, if comes to, he must drink several bottles"
She nodded She’d wanted to take hius had forbidden it Couldn’t risk Gregori falling into his death-sleep there, or being put into a rooroan, she hefted herself to her feet and sat on the bed next to Gregori "Don’t die on ether I don’t kno to go on without you"
He lay there still unconscious
At least Kyo’s secretersto hius had tried to pull her away to teleport her here, she’d actually struggled to keep hold of Gregori
He’d finally tugged her loose while Robby had picked up Gregori They had teleported them both to Kyo’s estate
She wasn’t sure of all the details of what had happened at the coht her here, all the Va, so they must have experienced a victory But she’d seen only about thirty soldiers at the co back frotze River, so they hadn’t been there for the battle
No one, other than Gregori, had been seriously hurt Howard and Rajiv were brought back Howard’s wounds had mostly healed when he shifted back to human forus sent a search party after hi device indicated he’d returned to their first base A sleeping bag and so, and on the floor in a s chip
JL led the search party to the second base It looked like Russell had been there, since his backpack was athered up everyone’s belongings before returning to Kyo’s estate She had her backpack now, but no saht her an ice chest filled with bottled blood and set it beside the bed "If he wakes up, he must drink"
She nodded "Thank you, Kyo"
As dawn approached, Angus caht some visitors to meet her She met Yoshi and Yuki, two of Kyo’s friends, who had answered Angus’s call to battle
"I had only an hour to get an arus explained "And I had to draw from areas that were in darkness Luckily, we had a few volunteers from Down Under" He introduced Rick, Steve, and Bryan frous said
"No worries, ht"
She shted to ail Tucker"
"Oy, anyone with the naood," Steve said
"Nice place you have here, mate" Bryan rested an arot any hed "Come with me We find it before Yoshi and Yuki drink it all"
Rajiv and Howard dropped in to see her, and she started crying again
"Don’t cry, Miss Abby We okay, see?" Rajiv sed her, then quickly left, no doubt to keep fro
Howard patted her aardly on the shoulder, then lurew silent once ht about how close and caring the Vamps and shifters were They were like family
It was a faus and Robby returned to see how Gregori was doing
"If he makes it to his death-sleep, then he’ll be fine," Robby said
"But what if he really dies?" she whispered "Hoould I know the difference?"
"He would turn to dust," Angus said "Just a few o, lass Once he falls into death-sleep, he’ll be fine"
They left the rooori, but he just lay there
It was hard to know exactly when the sun rose, for the thick aluminum shutters on theblocked out all the sun But she did notice when he stopped breathing
"Gregori," she whispered and stroked his hair
She pulled a blanket up to his shoulders, then lay beside him, wrapped in a comforter Hours of fear and sheer terror had left her exhausted, so she fell into a deep sleep
She hen Gregori’s body jolted beside her He dragged in a deep breath He’d been lying on his stomach, so when he sat up, he was in the ht?" She sat up, grinning "You’re all right! Oh, thank God" She threw her ared hirabbed her arreen "Hungry"
"Oh, right" She probably looked like breakfast in bed She scraroan, his fangs shot out
She twisted the cap off and handed his were in the way, and sorabbed another bottle and rery, he didn’t seem to care that the blood was ice-cold When he tossed the empty bottle aside, she handed him the next one
She eased around hi away
She couldn’t find the wounds
He turned toward her "I’ll need another bottle" His fangs had retracted, so he finished off the second bottle without drizzling blood down his chin
She handed hiry" He drank soht a damp towel to clean off his back
"You don’t need to do that," he grunored him and climbed onto the bed behind hione As if they had never happened
She skimmed her hand over the sed "It happens during our death-sleep"
She recalled how Robby and Angus had said he would be fine if he only e occur when you’re dead?"
"I don’t know" He drank "
"But to have such healing abilities"
"Abby, don’t question it Just be glad we’re both alive"
"I’rateful for what you did" She wrapped her ared him from behind "It was very brave and noble of you"
He patted her hands "Any time, sweetheart"
She sat back and eyed his smooth back It was trulytheir death-sleep?"