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CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR

KEELEY SCREAMED SO loudly even immortal eardrums probably burst She flashed to Torin’s side She wasn’t wearing gloves, but she pressed her fingers into his neck anyway Skin-to-skin At first, there was nothing No beat to meet her But then she felt it A soft thued heart shuddered, his blood pouring out of his wound The spear was helping to stem some of the flow, but if it was poisoned as Lucifer had said--and judging by Torin’s reaction, she was sure it was--it had to come out

So, she jerked it out and tossed it aside

"What can I do?"

Galen! She had forgotten he was here "Your shirt!"

He pulled the ainst Torin’s chest

He didn’t even moan

She looked to Hades, desperate "What poison would Lucifer have used?"

Silent, he studied his cuticles

"Hades, please I’ll do anything you want Just help me heal him"

The dark lord faced her then and nodded "It shall be just as you said Anything I want"

A second later, both Hades and Torin des, and it was a struggle because guilt pressed so heavily against her shoulders Had it not been for her, Hades would not have locked Torin away and Lucifer wouldn’t have been able to spear hiuilt Torin had been forced to live with during their association? No wonder he’d left her

I have to forgive hi Because I need hier

She knew she could not have one without the other

As she stood there, wondering if he would live or die, the hurt, pain, rejection, bitterness and anger she’d been harboring all this time--even in the face of his beautiful pleas--drained from her Love for hiaze His expression was agonized "What else can I do?"

"Tell the other Lords what’s happened, that Torin will be returned just as soon as he’s well" If he didn’t recover She cleared her throat to dislodge the lu there At Galen’s uneasy expression, she said, "Tell them the Red Queen sent you and that she’ll be very displeased if you’re harmed"

He nodded, and she flashed him to the fortress

Then she flashed to Hades He’d taken Torin to a laboratory of sorts Cauldrons boiled over and steas she couldn’t identify, and overgrown shrubbery actually crawled up the walls--using legs

Torin was strapped to a table, his mouth held open by a metal hook Beside him, an older ether She rushed to her warrior’s side, clutched his hands in hers