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"I have no clue," Corrine said "Like you say, there’s no reason for you to still be alive now Your skin was reddish and blotchy just now before the ie you should have done as a va afternoon sun for all those hours… You should be dead"

I’m still a vaave e of iiven," Corrine said slowly, "we could have given you all the immune blood in the world, and you still would not have turned"

Chapter 30: Derek

It was a mystery to all of us Not only Ben’s inability to turn, but how in hell he was still alive

I recalled my failed attempt to turn into a human while The Shade was under attack from the witches If I had not been saved from the Pit by my wife, I would’ve died My body had been scorched black after just a few hours I had not been in there nearly as long as Ben And yet here he was--although he had clearly been in agony, his body had been hardly covered withthat not even Corrine or Ibrahile clue as to why

Benjamin looked shell-shocked as he sat back down on the treat blankly at Sofia and ht was right for hi up within ain I was the one who’d turned hih this tored It was an expression I knew too well, not just fro hold of the dull and blackish The failed cure had drained hih Corrine had just fed him a vial of immune blood, that would have soothed his throat, but it would not have even begun to satisfy the craving that was now roaring in his sto, the exquisite taste of the iravated his appetite

"He needs more blood," Corrine said anxiously "But we can’t afford to keep giving hi a wrist against his face

"Leave it to lance "How are--"

"I’ll be back in an hour," I said firmly

It was tih Ben just being on this island Me standing in such proximity to hi the door behindin theit and stopped at the end

I stared out toward the ocean, past the boundary, until ray hunter ships

Now that it was amply clear that Ben could not turn back into a hu next to hi he could starve hih to stop hi my son’s tendencies so well I had been like hih I despised it, even I had been able to drink animal blood if I forced ray ships, I knew that Sofia would not approve of what I was about to do But right now, I couldn’t bring myself to care I had to do as best for our son

Besides, these hunters’ presence was still annoying the living daylights out of ht’ve promised not to unleash an all-out war on the I could do to take out et help

About tenoutside the e eyes and a rounded face She stood in her doorway, eyeingDerek to " Normally, I would have asked Corrine or Ibrahiic us both to the Port and I’ll explain," I said, before she could ask further questions

She did as I requested, and as we stood at the end of the jetty, staring out toward the hunters’ ships, I explainedwith it

After casting an invisibility spell over us, she transported us both outside of the boundary and made us hover above the water next to the ship that was furthest away froh the s near the base of the vessel as shefor a kitchen, or somewhere a fire could feasibly be started…

I found what I was looking for as we reached the sixthalong A kitchen area, filled with steel tables One large gas hob was in the center of the roo pots There was nobody inside

Shayla and I couldn’t er another alar the witch here with mewhat I’?" Shayla whispered