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If he had to do it, he'd give Rand the third mark Unless a third mark didn't lock into a shifter the way it did a hu could kill hi irreversible, like a decapitation
Cai wasn't sure if he believed the eternal soul-binding bullshit about vah about it out there he'd shied froht not intrude on his solitude the way a hu up souls for all eternity? Cai couldn't tolerate anyonethe wolf's life
His lips twisted wryly, but then Rand called out hoarsely, hands reaching, grasping at so, because they clutched and all his muscles spasly real wolf howl, a cry of pain and need whose haunting poignancy and roller coaster volume made Cai back up a few paces
"Okay, no," he said decidedly "We're not doing that"
He dropped to his heels beside Rand, intending to stroke, soothe, do a few things like that to calm him down Or shake him aith a sharp command if necessary Yet his skin was like ice Rand's eyes opened, but they were seeing souish that speared Cai through the chest
"Nono" Light died out of thethen, instinctive response to his decision to third e But then he realized the dullness of Rand's gaze was an emotional response
The shifter was doing so down, Cai noticed he was rubbing one hand in a scraping ainst the wrist of the other arm Closer inspection showed it was a deliberate motion, not a convulsive tic, and the hand was curled as if holding so that could cut
Cai's eyes narrowed He'd cleaned the et all the blood and dirt off hiht's efforts had incurred As a result, Cai hadn't catalogued the older scars the wolf shifter had Suddenly, tere far more noticeable
He gripped thehand with firm insistence away fro the other captured wrist, he saw there was a ers
Like ed him more than usual, and he wasn't entirely sure why People couldn't hack it and offed themselves It happened Life could suck too much sometimes and they didn't have it in them to push past it, strike out instead of self-destruct
"Didn't let me" Rand's sudden coherent words and harsh chuckle startled Cai Looking up, he met the shifter's eyes Fever old like sparks of sunlight in the ocean "Wolf took overshifted Somehowpinched off the arteries Wouldn't let me bleed out"
"So your wolf isn't the pussy that you are"
Rand didn't acknowledge the caustic coain even though he was shaking fro Cai's face, tracing it Cai gripped his wrist, holding hie of the scar beneath his palm, he wondered if the scars would disappear if Rand was third marked He didn't have a lot of experience with servants, but he'd heard that soo away, and no one knehy Or maybe they did knohy, and they just didn't want to talk about it
Their clasped hands fell on Cai's chest and Rand's fingers curled against it He'd reht cotton more time to dry from the earlier rain Vampires didn't have hair below the neck, so Cai's chest was s brown curls that Cai had been threading his fingers through as often as he pleased
Another shudder passed through Rand and his eyes rolled up into his head His jaitching, teeth chattering "Fuck it," Cai muttered
Stretching out beside the shifter on the blanket, he wrapped it up around the two of theainst Rand's, ar Rand so his head was tucked under Cai's jaw It bemused him when the ht around Cai, one around his waist and the other over his hips
"Hang in there," he found hioing to kick your ass for even trying"
He didn't know the guy If he died, he died But he still said it, meant it Maybe because with his arnore that touch was the most basic of needs for almost every species on the planet A need sometimes more important than any other
Rand grunted, but it wasn't an acknowledg very little that was understandable Soh and aard out of human lips He'd stayed in that form over two years That hat Cai had read from the male's mind Was that normal for a wolf shifter? He expected it wasn't From how much Rand seemed to want to flee back into his ani for his long-term recuperation