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At what must’ve seemed like oing to hurt you, I swear As long as I have a breath in ain You’re safe"

I stared at hiuess you could say that," he replied I was shocked when he shyly ducked his head The reaction seeot me away from Mendoza and that horrible place"

"Yeah, I did"

"So you saved ivehme to wince "Do you need more pain medicine?" Rev asked

"No!" I answered a little more loudly and emphatically than I should have I felt embarrassed at Rev’s raised brows "I’ll be fine," I addedwoozy and incapacitated The last tied hen I had been kidnapped

Once I had ridden out the pain, I asked, "How long have I been out?"

"A day"

I gasped "I was out that long?"

"After being beaten and going through surgery, you needed it"

"How bad was I?"

Rev grih the surgery"

"Breakneck?"

Rev chuckled "I eway"

"He was very kind todoctor If anyone could have saved you, it was hi into Rev’s face, I recalled ery "I asked hiet you, didn’t I?"

He nodded "And I cauely re in the doorway before I’d slipped into unconsciousness again

"I stayed by your side the entire tiood we are in Mexico because I’m pretty sure an American hospital wouldn’t have allowed me to stay"

I couldn’t rationalize why I found myself so drawn to hiery After all, he was a stranger tome from the depths of hell, but I still knew so little about who he was Was Rev really a knight in shining ar?