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Wraithopen "Help…"

"We’re here," Eidolonblood "Serena Help… her"

"She’s okay, ht noe need to take care of you"

"Promise… me"

Shade’s raw curses blistered the air, this tilish

"Promise"

"Yeah, yeah," Shade muttered "Just relax I need you to relax"

Eidolon and Shade exchanged glances "I have to remove the blade," Eidolon said

"He’ll bleed out"

"I know We need to get blood into hih the ht with him and quickly inserted a catheter into Josh’s neck Eidolon hung up a bag of blood fro tube to the catheter When he’d finished, he set up another bag of blood, connected a tube to it… and held it out to Serena "I need you to feed this to him"

She recoiled "What?"

"Just hold the tube to his htmare "I don’t understand" She still hadn’t lare from both of the deet blood into him however we can Now, do it or he dies"

Vampire? But he’d warned her about them And he arm Had a heartbeat Walked in the sun He couldn’t be a vampire

"You a vampire?"

"Yep"

Okay, so he’d admitted to it, but… she shook her head This was crazy Shade cursed "Never ainst Josh’s shoulder and inserted the tube into hisfell over

"I’ll do it," she said finally, and held the tube between Josh’s pallid, dry lips He didn’t suck, didn’t h, his tattoo glowing

She did as he said, and blood flooded the tube She watched with morbid curiosity as it flowed into Josh’s

"Daht Da She ht hate Josh--she just couldn’t think of him as Wraith--for what he’d done, but he’d asked his brothers to help her when he was facing er, and she didn’t want to watch hi close, she brushed her lips over his cheek

"Please," she whispered "Drink" She stroked his lips, squeezing a little htly, just enough to encourage her "That’s it Take so out status reports and coloves working in blood and flesh made it all so horrific Eidolon had so a scalpel to open up the other one even e his pain, Shade" Eidolon put down the scalpel "This is going to hurt"

Shade’s tattoo glowed even brighter as Eidolon pushed his hand inside the opening he’d , Serena turned away Still, the wet sounds kept her i overti, alned the to come out of this

He still hadn’t drank "S, Josh Coer in hisHe was a vas… she found a sharp point, remembered how they’d felt in her dreams Had she had the dreams because she’d subconsciously knohat he was?

It was a question for later Right now she needed to get his were the key In her dreaer than what they felt like now Carefully, she rubbed the tip of her finger along the length of one, fro?

Josh moaned and opened hisinto s at once--hatred, confusion, fear--and, at the same time, be a little… turned on by this?

"That’s it," she ue "S I need you to s, okay?"

The blood dribbled out of the corner of his er down his tooth, she caressed the razor point… and applied pressure She tensed, felt the prick of his fang and the welling of blood on her fingertip

"Take it," she whispered, letting a drop fall to his tongue

He jerked like he’d received an electric shock, and then, to her relief, he closed his er inside She rean to suckle, the world drifted away in a swirl of pleasure

One of the brothers swore softly and said her name, but no one interfered Somehow, she kept the presence ofand into his reedily, and she swore the heavy shroud of despair that had settled in the rooone, and then Shade showed her how to hook up another bag to the tube She lost track of how much he drank, lost track of time All she kneas that at some point, she fell over, and when she opened her eyes, dark spots swa down at her, his expression a mask of concern