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"I ah it" He released her wrist "You saw me the moment his blood filled your veins"

So now she was seeing deel "I want Az"

"You sure about that?" Tanner hadher with that half-worried, half-syly antsy

"You seemed towant to be away from him when you saw him last" Now that bit came from the demon doctor

"I was out of an near her shoulder "I want Az," Jade said again

His fingers brushed the tip of the bandages "Lay back down and letwell, I’ll call him in"

Tanner offered her a faint half-sain and mess up all his fine handiwork"

She slid back down on the bed "Check et ot to work slowly pulling back the bandages, she stared up at the ceiling Faint cracks crisscrossed the white paint above her, and she focused her gaze on theut told her that she’d have scars on her chest that looked just like those cracks Long, jagged

A light touch of air hit her skin when the dees

"How" Surprise roughed the word even as the doctor leaned closer to her "I’ll be da at her wounds but nowJade risked a fast glance down, but only saw the doctor reaching for scissors Tweezers

Her gaze i

After aon her chest Then he pulled so out--stitches? She had to look like Frankenstein’s monster, and she kneeak, but Jade didn’t want to see those wounds right then Give her a few ht then

"You’re healed"

Lie Buther eyes darted down to the ravaged flesh that she hadn’t wanted to see Only it wasn’t n of the deep cuts that had torn through flesh and muscle

"Az!" She screamed his name because in that moment, she was terrified of what she’d becoainst the wall Az stood in the entranceway, filling the space His hands were clenched His eyes blazing "Get away from her!" He roared And in the next second, he’d leapt across the roorabbed the deainst the wall