Bane's Choice by Alyssa Day

Author:Alyssa Day [Day, Alyssa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Paranormal Vampire Romance, Fantasy Romance (ebooks), Vampire Romances, romantic fantasy, Coming of Age Fantasy eBooks, Mythology & Folk Tales, Paranormal & Urban Fantasy, Romantic Heroes Bikers, Romantic Heroes Criminals & Outlaws, Romantic Heroes Alpha Males, Alyssa Day, Vampire Motorcycle Club Series, Bane’s Choice
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2020-10-26T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Four

Mr. Evans—Hunter—had destroyed the room. It looked like a tiger had been let loose in it. She glanced at Bane’s wrist. No, not a tiger. A feral vampire. But she’d think about distractions like that later, when she wasn’t in the room with him.

When the scent of freshly spilled blood wasn’t thick in the air, carrying with it such a heavy weight of ancient superstition and very modern fear.

“I need my kit,” she mused, crouching down to examine him.

Bane blocked her from touching Hunter by the simple expedient of lifting her bodily and flashing across the room and out the door.

“Not now,” he growled, his eyes twin blue flames. “I don’t know if he’s truly asleep again or just taking a brief respite before he continues to dismantle the room and anyone who enters it.”

She made a growling sound of frustration right back at him. “I need to examine him, Bane. And at least let me bandage your wrist.”

But when she looked again, she saw the wounds fade to fine, white lines on his skin.

“We heal pretty quickly. Even those marks will be gone tomorrow.”

She inhaled a deep, shaky breath. “Okay. Okay. Well, if we can discover what property in your blood drives your metabolism—your healing—imagine the implications for the rest of the world.”

He held up a hand before she could get any more carried away. “Maybe, and I still agree to let you try—only on me—but I seriously doubt it. I think magic explains more about our status than science, Doctor.”

Ryan, who’d started pacing back and forth, turned to stare at him. “You don’t know that! We don’t know anything until we analyze anything and everything we can learn about what makes you—” She waved her hand, apparently to encompass both him and the state of being a vampire, all at once. “What makes you, you. Certainly, a blood sample isn’t going to tell me why you can fly, but it might tell me about your sensitivity to the sun.” She pointed at the open door. “It might tell me if sedatives will work on him, to help get him through this Turn that you don’t know why he’s not doing properly. Or, at least, maybe it could help when you want to…if you want to do this again in the future to someone else.”

She swallowed, hard, and an expression of barely concealed panic crossed her face. She must have been remembering what they’d talked about before. Her visceral reaction to even the thought of becoming a vampire told him more than her words had done.

To so powerfully reject the idea of becoming like him told him a lot.

None of it good.

He dismissed the thought and closed and locked the door before Hunter could wake up again. “I don’t know about sedatives. He’s in a kind of magical stasis during the Turn—or, at least, he’s supposed to be. Right now, he’s caught between human and vampire, and I don’t know what might work on him. It’s not like I’ve ever had medical assistance during the process before.

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