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"But?"

Wraith’s blue eyes glazed over as he stared down the hall, going someplace she couldn’t follow "But we have a history of so with our father and ending with Roag Lore has proven hiaze shifted to her, and it was as cold as the arctic tundra "I won’t let you screith my brothers"

"Screith them? Maybe you could keep in mind that I saved the lives of two of Shade’s kids And I never wanted toas much time with you as I am is because Eidolon and Shade won’t leave me alone"

Eidolon called her to come in for stuff related to the epide her to dinner with his family to thank her for what she’d done for his sons And sure, the triplets, Rade, Stryke, and Blade, were cute and all, but dealing with drooly little rugrats ay out of her comfort zone

"But you’re here now, and you’re in our lives So what happens when the plague is over and you don’t need to co his size in an attempt to intimidate her "Will you disappear?"

She wrenched her neck to look up at hirowl ruive a hellrat’s ass, but my brothers? Different story Lore worries about you E has accepted you into the fao Shade… he lost a sister he loved, and now he needs you to help him heal He probably doesn’t see that, but even as dense as I auess what, little sister? Get used to havingto be your shadow until I’m sure you won’t hurt our faet to tell me what to do," she spat "And I’m not your ‘little’ sister I’m older than you are, dickhead"

"Duh, the years you spent as a clueless human don’t count Everyone knows that" He narrowed his eyes at her "Just remember what I said Don’t try to run away, because there is no place on Earth or in Sheoul where I can’t find you" His voice was a ru, deadly murmur "And trust me, you don’t want me on your heels" He did a crisp about-face on the ball of his foot and took off down the hall, leaving her spitting h she had no idea what she’d do if she caught up to hi doors to the ER "I need you Now" Sin mentally flipped off Wraith and hurried after Eidolon, who didn’t even wait to see if she was following He crossed to a roo back the heavy curtain There, lying in a bed, was a tawny-haired er, maybe, his skin ashen in the few places where it wasn’tfrom his nose, eyes, and ears Machines breathed for hins A young, hu to the star-shaped mark behind her ear--checked his status, her face pinched with concern

Sin wanted to throw up "Was he in an accident?" "That’s what this disease does" Eidolon lifted the patient’s chart froic fever It causes ans break down, and veins basically dissolve The patient bleeds from all orifices--"

"Stop" Horrified, Sin stu into a cabinet behind her God, what had she done? Eidolon gestured to the nurse "Vladlena, can we get a ripped Sin’s shoulders "Sin," Eidolon said, his tone much kinder than she deserved "I need your help I need you to channel your gift into him and see if you can force the virus into co a few days ago It didn’t work, and he wasn’t nearly as bad off as this guy"

"I know And this ht not work either But you’ve had a chance to see how the virus in Con’s blood was killed If you can cause a siht have a chance" "Dammit," she breathed "Okay Yeah" She curled her hands into fists in an effort to keep fro had affected her so strongly, and she wasn’t sure how to deal with it other than by burying her e up, she gently gripped the warg’s blackened, swollen hand "Why so bruised?" "He’s bleeding subdermally as his capillaries rupture"

Dear God She closed her eyes, digging for every ounce of stone-cold detachment she had She’d been a killer for years, had been to hell and back--literally--and she’d seen much, much worse than this

She just hadn’t caused it "Why can’t he drink aze to Eidolon, the walls, the floor, because anything was better than staring at the dying kid "I s normally don’t drink blood, but wouldn’t that provide some sort of defense?"

"It worked on Con because he’s part vampire, and the blood he took from you went nearly ioes into their stoitated"

Ick "Can you inject my blood into them?"

"Even if your human blood type were the sa your blood directly into a ould kill him" Numbly, she nodded Forced herself to look down at the boy, because he deserved that, at least Slowly, so slowly, heroff the horror, the sorrow, the guilt Oh, it would all coht now, she needed to put up the shields that would allow her to handle this<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>