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Even all Mr Gri she’d ever seen

"What happened?"

"Yeah, I ed her with an exasperated look and grabbed the stretcher "What did you do now?"

"She got into a fight with a Daeva" They wheeled her into the dark ER, where hulared at her with unconcealed hatred

"I wasn’t looking for a fight," she protested

Shade gave her a flat stare, so like Eidolon’s "You just happened to be taking a walk in deot ambushed?"

"Sort of"

"What happened to the Daeva?" Eidolon asked Silence fell like a guillotine blade as everyone waited for an answer

Pridesuicidal"It got away"

"Uh-huh" He and Shade settled her into a cubicle and closed the curtains to shut out the gawkers

"Where’s Wraith?" Shade asked

"Hunting" Eidolon’s deep voice resonated through her with almost the saotten how seductive his voice alone was "Why did you call us, Tayla?"

Because my boss ordered me to Guilt kicked her in the chest for just a second--until she glanced over at Shade, who looked as if he’d rather kill her than treat her

"I don’t need anyone asking questions about this wound and why it won’t heal" That , because she felt herself drawing further and further away from the only family she’d ever known, and if she couldn’t count on the left

"Probably sloves

When he finished, he and Shade ripped her wrist and Eidolon probed her wound, which didn’t hurt thanks to whatever Shade was doing to her In fact, Eidolon’s fingers on her skin soothed all her aches, except the one that had started to inexplicably blossoination, or had Eidolon started to lose focus?

His long fingers no longer probed her wound, but were instead gliding over the skin of her stolove, she could see his tattoo pulsing, pushing up on thethrough the brown in his eyes

"E!" Shade snapped his fingers in front of Eidolon He jerked back when Eidolon hissed, the gold in his eyes spreading like spilled paint "Shit E, ether Do you need to transfuse?"

For a , and then he closed his eyes and took a deep breath

"No I’h rumble as he returned Shade’s doubtful look with a hard one of his own "I’ to do hatever was happening, but she didn’t ask, ers over her wound A tingle ran through her belly, similar to what she’d felt when he healed the facial wounds the Cruentus de the sewer battle at Nancy’s

"No response I’ain"

"Why doesn’t it heal like the other wounds?" she asked

"I think it’s got so on with your anatoed looks "You told her? What, you ran out of pillow talk?"

"She needed to know"

Shade spouted soe, and Eidolon snapped back

"It isn’t polite to speak in tongues in front of guests"

"Fuck you, slayer" Shade released her wrist, and pain tore through her abdoasped before she could stop herself and bit her lip to keep frorabbed a wicked-looking instrument and thread off the metal tray he’d pulled next to hi her at all You changed the refusal-of-treati scu I shouldn’t have done"

"Shouldn’t have done? Are you forgetting what happened to Nancy? To Luc? She could have been in on it"

"Who’s Luc?" she ritted teeth

Eidolon answered, but kept his angry gaze on Shade "Parais surprised him in his house, where he’d locked himself up for the full moon They killed his rowled "He even said they ss out"

Trey and Michelle She drew a sharp, and painful, breath Kynan said that the Guardians were a Guardians chased them--"

"Were you there?" It was more than a question; it was an accusation

"No"

"Yeah Right" Shadows flitted in Shade’s eyesactual shadows from within that turned his brownishblack eyes completely black as he looked at Eidolon from across the table "What if she was? Would thatafter her like a--"

"This conversation ends now" Eidolon’s tone was a portent for trouble "Nuh to cause pain on its own, but immediately, warm relaxation washed over her