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He glances overto Rylan It’s hie of his arle “Peace, Mina”

“Let o”

“You’re not acting like yourself”

I part o, but Wolf is there, pressing his hand to h to bleed at all and already healing supernaturally fast But it’s enough It cuts my command off in its tracks

Concern lines his handso”

“Rylan?” Malachi is up and off the bed,around behind us Part ofWolf’s pale

Rylan’s ar out after the separation…or it’s the pregnancy We have no way of knowing for sure”

“Why not just let her drink her fill?” Wolf switches hands, a new cut on his other palm that he presses to my lips I moan a little in response and lean forward as far as I can with Rylan restrainingto be able to drain all three of us, and even if she did, she wouldn’t kill us”

“Maybe,” Rylan says darkly “Orleft It could develop into frenzy”

Wolf laughs, but it’s a shadow of his usualdemons and olves, Rylan Vampires don’t frenzy”

I tense, waiting for Rylan to argue, but he just huffs out a breath “There’s always a first tinant seraph, either Who knohat happens during that time? They kept their secrets too close We have no way of anticipating what happens next”

Malachi reappears in front of us He’s tied back his hair and has a knife in his hand “We can’t keep her restrained and gagged We see this through It’s the only way to know for sure”