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"You could just let me die"

"We covered that," the aze slid up to Rand's face, lingered "You and that made-for-sin mouth It lost you yourI expect you wanted to die in a fight Now your choice is to die of your wounds Far less satisfying, right? So get better, and you can live to fight and die another day"

"Don't you have better things to do than nurse an injured wolf?"

"Tons But not right now If that changes, you'll be the first to know" The va to his heels again to offer a piece he tore off "Here Eat Your growling sto me"

Rand's lips twisted, but the proximity of the cooked meat made it impossible for him to refuse He reached up to take theBloody hell, he felt like shit The fever had coated his ht sweat, and suddenly the meatway The instinct of the wolf told hiulp dohatever food was available, while his hu

"Here" The sht to Rand's mouth "You won't be able to eat as e off and give your body some fuel to help heal itself If that doesn't stay down, I'll boil some broth out of this rabbit"

"If I shift, it will help" It was a lie, but he didn't like this form He felt too exposed, too vulnerable

"If you shift, youany awards on that now And I won't do this"

Rand's shaking hands were too slow to prevent the vaers around his dick He sucked in a breath as the vampire showed he knew his way around another male's body As he stroked hirip He clah for an anchor point

The vaaze shifted to the contact, but he didn't remove it Hehis thu the bottom, over the slit Fuck, it hurt like fire to e It was as if his libido was operating in a whole different area of his brain than his broken body

The va Rand's hip "Yeah, sex drive increases with every mark Rumor is, third marks want to fuck even on death's door Take the food"

He wasn't sure what the vaer concerns He wouldn't allow himself to be fed He had that much pride

The other ainst Rand's curled fingers, lying loosely against his chest Rand ht the food to his lips Despite the surge of nausea, he got it into his mouth and sed

"Good So you said your na? Randall, Randy?"

Rand's brow furrowed, parsing theof the question He noticed the va hied annoyance had another question

"How long has it been since you shifted back to human?"

Long enough He'd lost track of days, seasonsno, he re, when it was just giving way to summer He'd remembered the nearly one-yearthe sunlit rocks in open spaces He'd grieved anew and been glad when summer passed into another fall But by wintertime, it had all proved too much The last time he'd been human, the despair had overcome him and

He pushed that away Over two years Except for surfacing that one futile time in the second winter, he'd stayed a wolf over two years He'd felt it taking o with no desire to ever take it back But imminent death at the hunter's hand had forced a shift back to human When a shifter lost control of his faculties, deepest instinct took over and ensured he was in the form most likely to ensure his survival

Instinct wasn't always a friend

No brainer on why he'd shifted to human this tiht Rand was merely a wolf

He hadn't answered thebits of food frorease e that in turn s The vampire's nakedness showed he'd responded to Rand's arousal in kind His cock was as frustratingly perfect as the rest of hiht, flesh stretching out into heated sthened and curved toward his flat abdomen

Rand wanted to clasp his greased fingers over it and see how the va worked as he'd worked Rand