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Kai pushed off the ground and turned his attention to Ilia, grabbing the guy’s collar “You son of a bitch,” he growled “You put your hands on my child”
But Ilia wheezed as he breathed, and Kai hesitated, letting his eyes fall down Ilia’s form
He released him and ripped open his jacket Blood coated his black shirt, his blond hair sweaty and matted
We all stilled
Kai yanked open his shirt, and I spotted the s out of the from Ilia’s face as he started to fade out He had minutes
“His lungs are punctured,” Kai said, turning to look at us “What the hell happened?”
And then to Madden “Mads? What happened?”
Kai knehat had happened We all knew And Mads wasn’t going to ansas already obvious
“She’s cold,” was all he said
“Octavia,” Daain to pull her away
Finally, she looked up at him “Daddy”
She reached for hiht “You okay?” he asked “Did they hurt you?”
She shook her head, her braids and all the jewelry she had in her hair glinting in the ht
She reached over his shoulder, into the night “Pitho more and more into the horizon
The waves kicked up, splashing us with spray, and I blinked against the snow, seeing that the sea was starting to get choppy
“We’ll get it,” he assured her
“It’s getting farther away,” she whined
He climbed back onto our boat with her and put her in her mother’s lap “Don’t worry”
Emmy and Will climbed back on our vessel with Rika, and I sat down in the seat next to Ilia, firing up the engine again
“Call an ambulance,” I yelled over to my wife
She nodded
Not sure how ood it would do I should just duht now
But I wouldn’t deny Kai or Dae him to the twelfth floor as soon as he was ready
Punctured lungs An eye torn out of its socket A dead body at St Killian’s I looked back at Mads, Kai desperate to see his son scared or need him, but…
Kai just held his son’s face, wiping off the blood and trying to make eye contact
“We’re okay,” was all he said, though
Kai just stared up at him, no doubt thankful the kids were safe, but still uneasy
“Let’s just get the”
“I’ll follow,” I told them