Hellsbane 02 - Heaven and Hellsbane by Paige Cuccaro

Author:Paige Cuccaro [Cuccaro, Paige]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Fiction, General, Paranormal, paige cuccaro, Hellsbane, romance series, Heaven and Hellsbane, Entangled Select
ISBN: 9781622668878
Google: 9oDmhyFqlucC
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2013-08-27T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

“Daniel is unmarked. He’s innocent,” Eli said, his pale eyes flashing an angry glance my way. He scooped the bleeding man from my arms into his and stood. “Healing him has no bearing on the war. But death has a way of finding a person one way or another. My effort is an insult to the order of things.”

“Yeah? Well I can’t say that I care if Death is insulted,” I said. “Just do it. Please. Save him.”

Eli’s jaw tightened and he looked at Dan for an agonizing heartbeat or two and then finally back to me. “Where do you want him?”

“What do you mean? While you heal him?”

He adjusted the big man in his arms, cradling him like a child. “It’s done. He’s healed, but he’s lost a lot of blood. He’s covered in it. I assume you don’t want to ruin the sheets on your bed.” He raised a brow. “Unless you want him in your bed.”

Was that a question? Jealousy? I ignored it. “Right. Let’s put him in the guestroom. Can you help me clean him up?”

Eli didn’t answer; he just turned and headed across the hall to the other room.

“You’re sure he’s okay?” I asked, quickstepping after him.

“I wouldn’t lie to you, Emma Jane,” he said, stopping beside the bed. “I know how much he means to you.”

“No. I know. I was just—” Crap, this was weird. I sighed. “You’re right. He means a lot to me. But—”

“No but,” Eli said. “That’s all that matters. You should know that.”

I opened my mouth to say something, but couldn’t think of a thing and pressed my lips together. I propped my hands on my hips and just said, “Thank you.”

He turned and sat on the bed, holding Dan in his lap like a protective father.

“Eli, I have to tell you. Jaz is…” My throat tightened, tears stinging. “They killed Jaz. I couldn’t stop them. And they got his sword.”

He didn’t look up at me, his gaze on Dan’s sleeping face. “I know.”

“I’m so sorry,” I said, regret and sorrow twisting my stomach. “I didn’t know him very well, but he was there helping Dan—trying to help me.”

“He isn’t lost, Emma Jane. He’s with our Father. There is no greater reward.” His gaze swung up to mine. “We’ll need a basin of water, a washcloth, and a towel. And a clean change of clothes if you have it.”

“Right. Okay. Yes.” I snapped into action, racing from the hall closet to the bathroom and back to the guestroom. I didn’t have any clothes for him. Dan had stayed over enough but he’d always left with what he’d worn.

Thankfully, he was unconscious for most of the process. I wasn’t sure how I’d explain Eli holding him while I tugged off his ruined, blood-soaked shirt and even worse when I peeled off his wet jeans and baby-blue briefs. When we were done, Dan was healed, clean, and totally naked.

Eli gently laid him in the bed, and I tucked the blanket and sheets around him.

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