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I’d never witnessed a turning with sopaler by thea a witch in here with us in case we needed o fetch Adelle or Patricia ed into the roo a tre hand over her mouth

"Go find Adelle, Patricia, or Mona," I said "Or any witch with h she looked like the last thing she wanted to do was leave him in this state, she sped out of the room

Of course, there wasn’t e of the process Nature was taking its course There was no way to stopwith his body We just had to hope that the transformation took hold of him before he lost too much blood to survive as a human I supposed it was more for my own comfort that I wanted to know that a witch was there with us, even if there wasn’thi and shivering, I opened his jaw and examined his teeth I breathed out in relief to see that they were taking form

Soon Soon I just had to hope that it would be soon enough

Sofia appeared in the room a few minutes later, Adelle by her side Adelle’s eyes widened as she took in all the blood

"His fangs are coer until he is predominantly vampire, and the blood loss won’t ry vampire when he comes to

We’d have to keep him as far away fro to satisfy his newfound bloodlust on ani itch by blowing on it

But he would have no choice He’d have to get used to it, just as we’d all had to

"I suppose there’s not much I can do now," Adelle concluded as she stood by the slab

I nodded Sofia hurried to my side and brushed the hair away froroan She placed a kiss on his forehead

"It’s okay, Ben," she whispered, as though he could ony "It will be over soon"

I couldn’t help but smile bitterly at her reun

Neither of us exchanged a word for the next hour We just stood, staring at Ben, willing his transformation to take hold faster We all breathed easier once Ben’s coughing finally began to subside, the blood he spewed out beco less and less When his convulsions beca had slowed to a normal pace, I deemed it safe to leave the Sanctuary