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“It’s the blood!” Xero shouted as he shoved Kai aith his boot “That feral va with his!”

That thing had been a va a suave, sexy lady killer, I guess

“What do we do, Piper?” Kingston’s question was“I don’t kno to stop hi him”

My bond with Kai was sti

ll very h he’d lost his er, and his confusion The brutal ani him apart If he died, I knew I’d feel that too

And I couldn’t let that happen

“Just slow him down,” I ordered “Do not kill him!”

Kingston shot me a look halfway between fury and helplessness, and I felt that too I was on all sides of this conflict, i focused and frightened with Jayce, analytical and precise with Xero It was paralyzing I stood on the fringes of the conflict, eyes darting everywhere It was too much It had to stop I had the power to stop it, I knew I did, I just couldn’t reach it in theemotions

Fuck this I’et hurt

Persuasion I thought the word, trying to su feeling rise Persuasion, damn it Come on, ith me here!

It flickered this tirasp it, but it was shoved away by a flash of terror from Jayce

I felt the emotion radiate from him like a bomb’s blast

“We got company!”

Chapter Twenty-Two

The men’s attention shifted away from Kai as three more of those monstrous vah for me to break free of the emotional andhim completely by surprise