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She keptas she pulled a sheet from the bed and wrapped herself inside it Her bare feet padded softly, carefully, on the wide pine floor as she made her way toward the open French doors "Who are you talking to out there? Kellan, what’s going on?"
And then amovement that made Kellan’s heart sink like a stone
He pivoted and flashed to her side, catching her before she could fall Her siving as an arrow "Shh," he soothed her "Shh, I’ve got you, Mira It’s okay now"
A lol at Kellan’s back"Holy hell It’s even worse than I iined"
"Nathan?" Mira asked, her pale, cloudy eyes searching in the darkness "Kellanwhat’s Nathan doing here? Tell oddamn bastard" The Hunter’s voice was pureblinded her"
Chapter Twenty-Two
"NATHAN, NO!" ALTHOUGH MIRA COULDN’T SEE THE BREED warriorimpact of his body as Nathan launched himself at Kellan In her veins, she felt the echo of each punishing blow of the fists that came down onto Kellan’s head and torso
But the physical pain she experienced through her blood bond was nothing co the two men she cared for so deeply - her two best friends, who’d been as close as brothers to each other at one tiht because of her
And fight was not the right terh her vision was nothing but blackness and shadows, she could tell that Kellan wasn’t even atte fists, dodged when he could, but threw no punches of his own He wouldn’t fight his friend Kellan had too much honor for that, despite what Nathan must think of him now
"Nathan, stop!" Hindered by blindness and the sheet wrapped around her nakedness, Mira scrabbled in frustration, finally laying her hand on the massive form hunched over Kellan on the pine plank floor of the bedroo co to pull him away "Nathan, it wasn’t Kellan who blinded me I did it ht now!"
The pu slowed, then halted as Nathan’s bulk shifted beneath her hold on hiaze on her face and knew that his eyes had to be fully transfore His breath was sawing out of hi just how furious he was - how deadly violent - Mira understood that Nathan could have killed Kellan then and there if he’d truly o, before she’d even known he was there
"Let him up, Nathan Kellan won’t ask mercy of you, but I will" She searched for Nathan’s face with her free hand, an inelegant movement that made him hiss a dark curse
"Ah, fuck, Mira Look what he’s done to you"
"No," she said, shaking her head "No, Kellan hasn’t done anything He tried to help ave me his blood - "
"Jesus Christ" Nathan scoffed His voice turned away fro at Kellan "You wait all this ti her to you with the blood bond?"
"I love her," Kellan said Mira heard hi up off the floor, felt his warht on her shoulders, co "I will always love her, no ainst her te else in this world or the next"
She knew that Deep down, she knew heher heart
He was letting go
"You proainst the pain "You said you wouldn’t let ently on her eyelid His voice was a rough whisper, low and inti I ever want to do If there was a way to turn this around, believe ood-bye, elsewhere in the Darkhaven cale Deep, fa Kellan’s crew to cooperate with their arrest and no one would get hurt
Boots thundered heavily down the hallway toward the bedroom
"You lied to me," Kellan said to Nathan "You said you carunted "I wasn’t about to leave anything to chance As you told ht was about ensuring Mira’s well-being We had to make sure she’d corowl came toward her from the bedroom’s now-open doorway
"Daddy?"
She couldn’t help herself fro into his arht embrace She knew the instant he looked at her face - the instant he saw her clouded eyes His snarl was fierce and ani on the interloper who had wounded one of his young "Son of a bitch Fuck the arrest, I’ll kill the bastard - "
Before Mira could say anything, Nathan stopped Nikolai ords alone "She’s bonded to him Hurt Kellan, and you hurt her too"