Dead Souls Volume Four (Parts 40 to 52) by Amy Cross

Author:Amy Cross
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: paranormal romance serial, paranormal soap opera, vampire soap

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“Come on, Kate,” Nixon whispered as he placed another clamp close to her heart. “You can pull through this, I know you can. You have to.”

“I need a moment alone with her,” Edgar said suddenly.

Having not realized that he had company, Nixon turned and saw that Edgar was standing in the doorway.

“What's her condition now?” Edgar asked, stepping closer.

“She's still not out of the woods. She suffered three heart attacks in the past hour, but somehow I managed to get the damn thing restarted each time. She's resilient, I'll give her that, and I think she's a little more stable right now, but there's still a lot more work that I need to do. At least I have more hope than I had before.” He looked down at his blood-stained hands. “Do you remember when she broke her ankles recently, falling from the window? I should have noticed that they healed remarkably quickly.”

“The second heart was responsible?”

“Her metabolism is remarkable.”

“But she's still...” Staring down at Kate's open chest for a moment, Edgar watched the two hearts beating in time with one another. “She's still human, is she not?”

“Absolutely,” Nixon replied. “She's tough, she's able to withstand a little more punishment than the average human, but she's still one of them.” He paused. “She said something about being injured in the future, and about you having saved her life. From the sounds of it, it's almost like you put her back together. The thing is, Edgar, I don't see why you'd have put this second heart in her chest when instead you could have... Well, you know what you could have done.”

“I could have changed her,” he said quietly.

“You could have turned her into a vampire. Why didn't you?”

“I don't know,” he replied. “Obviously my future self felt that would be a mistake.” He stared down at Kate's sleeping face for a moment. “Can she hear us?”

“I gave her a sedative.”

“Leave me alone with her for a moment,” he continued. “I have something I must tell her.”

“Edgar -”

“Go.”

Realizing that it wasn't his place to argue, Nixon nodded and headed to the door. “I'll be in the next room. If there's any sign of increased cardiac activity, you must call for me at once. She's still in danger.”

Once he was alone with Kate, Edgar made his way around the desk and then paused for a moment. Finally, kneeling next to her, he waited, as if he expected her eyes to open.

“I know you can hear me,” he whispered. “On some level, at least, you know that I'm here. When you went to Parios with Madeleine and the Kazakos woman, I became so angry, I swore that when you returned...” He paused again. “Now that you're back, I realize that I was wrong. I should never have tried to ban you from going, not without explaining things properly. If I'd told you what I suspected, if I'd helped you to see things from my perspective, a lot of this trouble could have been avoided.

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