Lover Sacrificed - Chapter 12

Nalla kept whispering and moving her free hand through Darius’s hair.

- Please baby, please come back to me.

His eyes opened  suddenly without warning at the same time his teeth sank into her wrist and he drank without moving his gaze from hers.

- Manny! V!

Doc Jane screamed, surprised.

- He’s back! Come on, give me a scalpel, we need to get those bullets out of him! Nalla keep doing what you’re doing. Ehlena warn Wrath and Beth.

Nalla smiled through her tears.

- That’s it baby, drink. Make yourself strong again.

Her heart had stopped beating the moment they had brought Darius in.

His whole body was full of stab wounds and bullet holes, as well as broken bones and bruises, and probable internal bleeding.

None of the usual chosen had been available and there had been no time to call upon the Directrix or Primale to get another one here.

Nalla had been the only one close enough and she was damn grateful now as he drank his fill and the color returned to his cheeks.

Manny had declared him dead, but she hadn’t given up. She hadn’t been able too. To lose him would mean losing herself.

She just kept looking into her eyes and threading her fingers though his hair.

- That’s it nallum, you’re going to be ok. You’re going to make it.

Tears were running down her face and he moved one of his hands up slowly, to wipe them away. Three unspoken words lingered in the air, their love for each other so thick she could almost smell it.

She heard two gasps and knew Wrath and Beth had just come into the operating room. Nalla didn’t look up. She was too busy saving their son.

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Beth looked at her son in complete astonishment. The initial shock of thinking he was gone and then getting him back still in the back of her mind. What she saw now was amazing.

He had bonded?

With Bella’s girl?

Did Wrath know this?

Nalla was feeding their son, saving his life and the air was saturated with his bonding sent.

She was starting to look pale from all the blood Darius must have taken, but still she just let him feed as she caressed his hair. The look of love in both their eyes was obvious to everyone. How could they not have seen this coming?

Doc Jane, Manny and V had finished closing him up. She looked at his wounds and was unbelievably thankful for Nalla’s presence. Her blood would help him heal.

Suddenly she noticed something a mother just did not need to see.

- Oh my!

She quickly looked away and Wrath chuckled low in his throat.

- Well whadda’ya know? He’s gonna be just fine. Hold on leelan, I have to stop him before he drains her.

Wrath let go of her and walked to the operating table.

- Son? Come on buddy, you need to let her go now. You’ve taken enough, you’re going to be ok. V, help me hold him down will you?

Beth watched as her hellren and Vishous pinned Darius down and Ehlena pinched his nose so he would let go of Nalla.

Her son snarled, completely in animal mode as he was ready to bond and mate, even though he was injured.

Sweet Virgin in the Fade, the mating ceremony was only a few months away.

What the hell were they going to do now?