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“That’s the poison,” she said. “Now we need to heal this cut.” A dark red light shone and I could feel my skin stretching and closing.
I bit down on my tongue not to scream.
Suddenly, too aware, I sat up.
“Easy there, sweetheart,” Leviathan said. I glanced at him, seated beside me on the bed. He looked terrible.
I stared at the woman standing beside the bed. She was a lot younger than I first thought. “You’re healing me.”
She nodded. “I’m not done yet.” She showed me her hands. “May I?”
I hesitated. Before, I had been barely conscious, but now? Should I trust her? Well, if she or Leviathan wanted me dead, they had missed a fantastic opportunity.
I glanced at my arm—my skin was bloody, so was my jacket and the bedsheets. Even Levi’s hands were smeared with my blood, but there was only a thick, red line cutting the side of my bicep, a good three inches.
I nodded.
She rested a hand over the wound and infused it with more of her magic. “I don’t think I’ll be able to make it disappear completely, but it’ll look like an old, thin scar.”
She stared at me with bright blue eyes. I knew these. They looked just like Leviathan’s. I glanced between them. The woman had the same black hair, but she wore it long, to the middle of her back, the same fair skin, the same straight nose.
“You’re related,” I said.
“I’m Lacey, Levi’s little sister.”
“Levi?” I asked.
“Yeah, it’s what I call him.” She leaned closer and half whispered, “He doesn’t really like it, not since we were kids. I call him that mostly to irritate him.”
“Maybe I should call him that too,” I joked. He irritated me with sweetheart. Now it was my turn.
“You definitely should,” she said with a small smile. “Now, I’m almost done. Once I take my magic away, the adrenaline will fade almost instantly and the exhaustion will win. Don’t fight it. You need to rest to completely heal.”
I didn’t like the idea of passing out with two strangers, but why go through all the trouble of healing me if they wanted to kill me? It made no sense.
True to her word, Lacey withdrew her hand and a wave of dizziness fell over me. I felt the bed sway under me, and a big hand cradle my head to the pillows.
I blinked, fighting it, but there was no winning.
“Rest, sweetheart,” was the last thing I heard before drifting to sleep.
* * *
“I shouldn’t have told you.”
“No, I’m glad you did, Levi … even if it took hours to make you spill.”
I came to and recognized Leviathan and Lacey’s voices. I peeked from under my lashes, but all I saw was the heavy curtain over the window and faint light streaming from underneath. Was it still the same afternoon, or the next morning?
Leviathan groaned. “You’re so annoying.”
“If I were, you wouldn’t care,” Lacey said.
They were somewhere behind me. I kept my breathing slow, lest they knew I had woken up. For some reason, I didn’t want them to know yet.
“All right then. You’re my favorite sister.”
“I’m the only one you have!”
