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"Kar?" Luc’s deep voice was a strangely soothingin your sleep… Holy fk, you’re hot"

"Not hot," shearound, felt a blanket co her head up "Hey I have some Tylenol You need to take it"

Her stohed… so hard her ribs screaunshot?" "You shouldn’t It healed with your shift" He frowned as he thumbed up her eyelids "Your pupils are dilated" He sank down next to the couch and peeled the blanket away fro to take a look at you"

She felt her shirt being unbuttoned, and despite her et your hands on me"

"I don’t need an excuse You’re easy" "You--" Her eyes flew open, but when she saw the rare s her Which eird, because she would not have taken him as the playful kind "You should srunted as he opened her shirt to expose her chest "My face hed, but ih her abdomen "Shit" Luc jerked his hands away froh"

His gaze swept her with the intensity of an X-rayall the way through her "I’" About the baby, hat he rireat You were only ri that’s happened to aze, so it was i as he finished unbuttoning her shirt He peeled the flaps open to reveal an odd bruise around her navel… and the color drained from his face

"What?" she whispered "What is it?"

"SF Jesus Christ, I think you have the virus"

Sixteen

Massive bleeder Pule words pierced Sin’s fog of pain She thought she heard Con, and ony electrified her body, and she screa up took a long time Between the buzz in her ears and the raw ache in her throat, it seeness for an eternity Gradually, she became aware that she was sore, thirsty, and on a bed She blinked, opened her eyes She was in Rivesta’saround her were her brothers All of them And Tayla And Con

"What… happened?" Her voice sounded rusty Beat up And it became even more so when Con sank onto the bed next to her and took her hand His fingers slid over her wrist as if checking her pulse, but unlike the times he’d done it in the past, there was more tenderness than professionalism in his touch "Why are you all here?"

"One of Bantazar’s assassins hit you with an exoler," Lore said "He’s dead" "A lot dead" Wraith snorted and high-fived Lore "Massive deadness"

Sin could only i Bantazar really was a grade-A prick, and his assassins weren’t any better He was probably still pissed that she hadn’t taken him up on his offer to screw hi on the big olf contract

She rubbed her chest, where she re that had felt like a cannonball Aside from a little tenderness, she’d never have known she’d nearly had a tunnel drilled through her

But… wait… the tenderness… there was so deeper there, and abruptly, she drew a harsh breath It was the sensation of losing a lot of assassins Unfortunately, she wouldn’t knoho until she got back to the den or talked to soht now, it wasn’t iood thing She put the dead assassins out of her aze between her brothers "So you all came?" "It’s e do," Eidolon said simply

Uh-huh There was a catch There had to be "Okay, so you healedher Gargantua-bone dagger "How did you escape the infernal fire?"

"Infernal fire?" She frowned, and then that horrible screech she’d heard at Con’s house pierced her ht there in her ear "Holy shit, that’s what destroyed Con’s house?" Con cursed "I should have known I’ve seen what that shit does"

"So have I," Wraith said "But I’ve never seen anyone escape it"