Violent Demand (Blackrose Brotherhood Book 3) by Ariana Nash

Author:Ariana Nash [Nash, Ariana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Crazy Ace Publishing
Published: 2023-10-19T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 23

Octavius

The safehouse stood on its own plot of several acres on the shore of a stormy Lake Michigan.

All the Brotherhood safehouses had medical facilities, but normal medicine wasn’t going to save Saint.

“What do we do? What can I do?” Jayden stood at the floor-to-ceiling window overlooking the misty lake. “My blood? I’ll feed him, I don’t care how much he takes. I tried in the chopper, but I couldn’t open a vein—” He hurried to the kitchen area and opened the drawers. “If I cut my wrist, he’ll smell the blood, right? And he’ll drink. I can do that—”

“Stop.” Octavius slumped against the wall. If he sat down he’d struggle to get up again. Exhaustion had caught up with him, and the adrenaline from the fight with Mikalis had worn off an hour ago. He needed to think, but there wasn’t time.

Jayden grabbed a knife. “I’ll do it now.”

“He’ll kill you.”

He looked up. “He won’t. He’s always careful.”

Jayden didn’t understand. “When he’s not dying, he’s careful. But right now, if he were to even wake long enough to recognize blood, he’ll tear into you. It’s not a choice, Jayden. It’s what we are.”

“I can’t just fucking stand here doing nothing!” He flung the knife onto the kitchen counter and thrust his hands into his hair. “God damnit, Octavius. You don’t get it. He saved me. I was lost, and he saved me. I can’t do this fucking shit world without him.” He gulped a sob, stormed outside, slammed the door, and marched to the water’s edge in the swirling mist.

Octavius did get it. Saint had saved him too, and he was only now beginning to realize how.

He’d started out hating him, believing him to be nothing more than a blood-sucking nyk. But Saint was complicated, and far from the monster they’d all been warned about. He was amusing and bold, and he cared. He even loved. He loved Jayden, and he had loved Mikalis. Nyks weren’t like that. Saint wasn’t a nyk. He was brilliant, powerful, compelling, irritating, handsome, enigmatic, and alluring in ways Octavius couldn’t remember experiencing before.

But right now, he was fighting to survive a bite that should have already killed him.

There had to be something they could do. Some way to save him.

The venom was in his blood, in his veins, beating through his heart, trying to devour him beat by beat. He wasn’t yet dust so that meant Saint was fighting it. If he was fighting the venom, then there might be a way to help him fight for longer.

If they could bleed him, and have him feed, it might dilute the venom enough for Saint to gain the advantage. But out of his mind with pain and starvation, Saint would grab the nearest warm-blooded living thing and drain it in seconds. That was Jayden, and Saint had done all this to save Jayden.

What if Octavius took Saint’s blood into him?

It would mean consuming venom. Swallowing venom was a lot less effective than having it

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