Rapture by Rapture

Author:Rapture [Evernight] (mobi)
Language: en-us
Format: mobi

Chapter Sixteen

Finding her had been far simpler than finding the treasure. Ferox could scent her blood long before he’d even heard her, though with the cave vibrating with every roar of whatever beast had guarded her treasure, he’d known without a doubt he’d been headed in the right direction—maze or no. When he’d found her, she’d been slightly distracted, and the knowing of it was eating at him silently.

She refused to talk about it, refused to even admit there was a problem, but the smell of her blood indicated to him all-too-well how serious her injury was. By anyone’s standards, it was a scrape, but gods knew what had caused it; likely the basilisk she’d battled—if her beast had been anything like his. It might not have ripped her leg free, but it very well could have poisoned her, and the scents wafting from her blood made that theory all the more likely in the half hour they’d spent winding their way through the maze.

“Do you remember the way out?” she asked, breaking the silence that had formed between them. Her voice had sounded strained, gritty in a way he’d never heard her speak. He’d much preferred the sultry sound she’d spoken to him earlier, though that time had clearly passed.

“We’re going in the right general vicinity,” he responded. “But no, I do not remember the exact way.” He might have, had her blood not been distracting him so.

Raine slowed and braced a hand against the rocky wall, exhaling slowly as she peered down at the ground. He stepped around her, pulling her chin up with a finger. “Will you tell me now?”

She bit her lip, that stubbornness making an appearance for a few seconds before it washed away. “You should go on. My strength wanes. I believe the dragon’s bite was poisonous.”

Damn, it was as he feared. “Can I help? Do you know of an antidote?”

She shook her head, her face morphing as if a fresh wave of pain rocked through her.

“Would you mind terribly if I tried something?”

“What were you thinking exactly?” she asked, eyeing him through the pain.

“You’ve learned how my people survive. It is also how we heal. What if I gave you some of my blood?”

Her eyes widened at the same time her mouth dropped wide open, revealing her pink tongue and white teeth. “That’s just—”

“An idea,” he interrupted. “I can try to drop it on the wound, and see if anything happens.” She tried to turn away, clearly not wanting him to see her revulsion, but he refused to let her. “What will it hurt?”

“That’s the problem. We don’t know.”

“Could it be any worse than what you feel now?” He looked at her for so long in silence, watching the expressions on her face as she had her own internal debate. And never before had he wanted to know someone’s thoughts. Was she formulating some sort of rejection? Was she actually considering accepting his offer? In truth, he didn’t know what it could hurt. It had simply never been done before.

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