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Finally, wet, frozen, and exhausted, he reached his cabin Inside, the fire blazed and the scent of rabbit stew perroaned The sound was reedy, weak, and he had to hurry
Carefully, he laid her down near the hearth, and then he peeled back the bearskin rug near the south corner of the living roorain concealed the hatch he’d had installed and concealed by a sorceress, but with one well-placed strike with the side of his fist over one particular knot the door popped open Instantly, a blast of icy air blew his chin-length black hair away frooing down there or Kar would freeze to death before she had a chance to bleed out
Gently, he picked her up and carried her down the steep steps The rooht only from the slats in the floor above He lay her on the straw pallet, lit a fire in the hearth that had been cleverly vented through the fireplace above, and ran back up the stairs
After grabbing his juloved up Her lightly freckled face was pale, her short cap of strawberry blond hair h-bitch Guardian who had gone toe-to-toe with hi battle-lust-induced olf sex She looked vulnerable and fragile, and right now, he was her only hope of survival
Working rapidly and with precision, he went through the standard ABCs--airway, breathing, circulation--ritual and was not thrilled with the results Her pulse was rapid and thready, her breathing labored, and, darabbed a pair of shears to cut away her parka, the sweater beneath it, and the therirl had definitely been prepared for the cold Too bad she hadn’t been prepared for the two bullets that had torn apart her shoulder and arh the haer-like mess Black streaks spread like evil vines fro and branching off as he watched
Silver bullets So the Aegis definitely knehat she was--a born warg He’d seen her crescent moon birthmark on the sole of her foot when they’d been nad If not for that, Luc would have left her to die in the snow He wasn’t taking any chances, so lucky for her he’d just gotten a call on his sat-phone fros were affected Wasn’t that just fortuitous as all hell for the bastard borns
The wounds were bad Kar needed to go to UG, but the nearest Harrowgate o et there--if he could get there He had a snowood in this weather, and the noise would attract any nearby Aegi
And they were still teeks from the full moon, which meant there was no hope for Kar to shift and heal her wounds
If he didn’t get her real medical attention, these wounds would kill her
He could buy her tih The silver bullets had to coh her body, had already reached her abdomen, and at this rate, she’d be dead within the hour "Kar?" He spoke in a low, soothing tone as he ru to hurt" She didn’t reply, and he hoped she was too out of it to feel what he was about to do
Drawing a bracing breath, he dug around in the deepest hole--the bullet had gone through her arm and entered between her fourth and fifth ribs He eased the slug frois bastards
He’d despised them for more than ninety years, since the day one had nearly killed him as he shifted out of his olf foro
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Dammit He didn’t have time to dwell on the female he’d wanted to take as a is slayers took up too htmares anyway The second bullet was harder to remove He was forced to h Kar didn’t wake, she ed in her humerus, and all around it, the bone had blackened with poison
Cursing, he worked the bullet out with the forceps, and as it pulled free, Kar screaht to hold her down
"Alrunted, as he pinned her and waited for her to settle It took aconsciousness again Luc worked quickly to finish, but it took forever to get the wounds stitched and dressed It wasn’t enough Not nearly enough She’d lost a lot of blood, was probably bleeding internally, and if he didn’t get her to UG fast, she was going to die
Kynan Morgan couldn’t believe he was doing this No hu that housed the Warg Council Especially not if you were a is
But then Kynan wasn’t coht mind, and he definitely wasn’t without defenses Nope, the aht of the world on his shoulders, but it had also co but a fallen angel could harm him