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No one outside of his brothers had ever taken care of hi even now The newness of the situation left hi toward her physically and eainst his nature, he stepped back "Thanks for helping rinned "Consider it partial payment on h hiht side of his face throbbed This was insane His control was slipping in a doard spiral that was beco harder and harder to recover froenesis was rising in hi , or he needed them more often

They stared at each other for a moment Slowly, the smile slid off her face "Look, ah, Shade said that what happened last night was because of so hed She deserved an answer after what she’d done for hiht "To keep their existence secret, va over results in severe punishment"

She rubbed her eyes and yawned, and he figured Q and A was over, but then she said, "So why are you their whipping boy instead of Wraith?"

"I volunteered" Shade had, too, but his curse was h to deal with already "Wraith would never survive the torture" Not with his mind intact, anyway

Tayla shook her head "I still don’t understand why you can’t tell hiets you punished"

"It’s too late We kept it fro If he kneas the cause of o insane, go on a ra at UG Shade and I figured it would keep Wraith busy and out of trouble"

"I’ the plan didn’t work?"

"It did," he muttered "You should have seen Wraith before UG started up And speaking of the hospital, I need to head there for a while" He urged her back into the bed and pushed her into the one"

She nodded and closed her eyes, falling instantly asleep He dressed quickly in jeans and a blue buttondown he left untucked and took the nearest Harrowgate to the hospital, where he approached Solice, the on-duty triage nurse

"Have you seen Gem or Wraith?"

"Haven’t seen Geo that ith Ciska"

Shit Ciska, the Sora demon nurse, radiated sex like a contaminated nuclear power plant Wraith couldn’t resist her if he was in a coma

Eidolon took off down the hall toward the cafeteria, following the perfume of arousal that ended at the supply closet door, where asounds told him as much as the scents did

He threw open the door, not surprised to find Wraith’s face buried in Ciska’s neck, his hands groping her breasts, her scrub bottoms pooled around her ankles The fly of his jeans was open, but Eidolon tore his gaze away before he saw more than he wanted to

Wraith lifted his head to look at Eidolon with golden eyes Blood dripped froue

"I need to talk to you"

Ciska’s tail whipped up to nudge the front of Eidolon’s pants where he sported a raging hard-on, thanks to the overpowering scent of feh his pants until he cursed and stepped back With a saucy s her tail away and wrapped it around Wraith’s cock

Wraith threw back his head and groaned "Bro, either give me a minute or join us"

It wouldn’t be the first time he shared a female with one or both brothers, but for soood "Hurry up"

He sla I beneath his, flashed in his head until he was ready to howl in frustration--frustration that wasn’t entirely physical The fact that he couldn’t bring her to clax gnawed at everything thatunder his breath, he told the triage nurse to page Gem, and then he settled himself in his office with an IV of his blood set at full bore Gem arrived ten minutes later She looked as if she’d just rolled out of bed two o, her bloodshot eyes framed by dark circles

"Where’s Tayla?"

Eidolon felt a possessive rumble rattle his chest at her tone "I told you she’s ht already be hurt I went to her apartment--"

"She’s at my place She’s safe"

"Oh, thank heaven"

"Heaven had nothing to do with it," he said wryly "And why are you so relieved?"

"The bastards called," Geer They said they need ed?"

"The person they were using can’t do the procedures Apparently, whoever it as injured in an explosion"

Eidolon’s sto operation could be based anywhere in the world--or underworld--and the individual perforical work could live and work anywhere as well But Eidolon didn’t believe in coincidences

"The hospital explosion"

"That’s what I’ How many were injured?"

"Three killed Seven injured Two seriously" He shoved his hands through his hair, ignoring the tug of the IV line "Of the seven, four are well enough to work"

"So that e bubbled up in Eidolon at the thought that one of his trusted staff could have been involved in so pricked his o He’d been aggressive, rude

until panic set in when Eidolon asked hiical incision At the ti that someone inside the hospital had been involved