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Salvatore cried out "Harley"

She pushed herself upright, jerking as another bolt slah her body, but she refused to go down Just a few more steps And then…

Then what?

She didn’t have a clue what she was going to do when she actually reached Salvatore, she only knew that she had to get to hi her movements aard, and black spots danced before her eyes, nearly blinding her Distantly she could hear Salvatore’s ragged breaths and the lowfro but putting one foot in front of another

Demon lord or not, she was too da from a dozen small wounds, and Harley suspected that more than one bone was cracked by the time she at last reached the altar

Once there, she realized that Salvatore looked even worse than she felt

The dark hair was ray And his poor body…

She shuddered at the charred flesh, unable to i

Instinctively she reached to offer coers had barely brushed his skin when the black shadow that had wrapped around her gave a bloodcurdling scream Harley leaned protectively over Salvatore, convinced that her eardrums were about to shatter

What the hell was theto prepare for whatever the demon lord intended to throw at the sensation beneath her palled whenever she touched Salvatore

But as the tingling becae heat raced up her arh her body, Harley pulled back to aze

The shadow that had been torh Harley didn’t believe for aup for so even more horrible But for theexcept the warh her

Good…God

Her wolf i with a need she didn’t understand It was as if her beast were anxiously searching for solowing golden gaze She could sense the power of his wolf reaching out to her, brushing over her skin and cloaking her in his fa through her fingertips and into her bloodstreah her,her in the most intimate way possible Harley made a sound of shock, but deep inside, her wolf howled in satisfaction, the restless ache that had plagued her being replaced by a stunning sense of…rightness

She hole

Co brain when she realized there was h her blood There was his power More power than she’d ever dreah her body, it washed away her weariness and healed her wounds at record speed

With a ht as her bones ether at an insane rate Holy crap The patching up hurt nearly as e of power settled to so breath, Harley straightened enough to stab Salvatore with a suspicious frown

"What the hell just happened?"

Salvatore s satisfaction "Exactly what you think happened"

The rets, cara"

She bit back the urge to tell hih Salvatore had done his own share of healing, the silver chains continued to burn his flesh and sap his energy

"It et out of here," she e silver lock that held the chains in place

For all the power that tingled through her, she didn’t think she could free hi her mind, Salvatore jerked his head toward the shadows behind the altar

"See if you can find Briggs’s stash of weapons He’s always had an obsession with big swords No doubt to compensate for what he lacked in other areas"

Harley shook her head They didn’t have tio on a treasure hunt Already the blackto foret Salvatore loose, and she had to do it now

"I have a better idea," shedown to lift a heavy rock frorabbed the lock, hissing as it instantly blistered her skin

Salvatore struggled against the chains, his face tight with frustration