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“I don’t think so.”
“Stitches?”
“Normally, we don’t do stitches on vampires. You guys heal quickly as long as…”
His pause gave Della concern. “As long as what?”
“As long as you haven’t been deprived of blood for too long. And an infection doesn’t set in.”
“Does it look infected?” she asked.
“Not yet. But it wouldn’t show up for a few hours. It’s when it’s healing that the signs of infection will show up.”
“And if it does?”
“We’ll have to open the wounds back up, clean them again.
“Turn him over,” Steve said when he finished cleaning the gaping hole in Chase’s abdomen.
“Put the ointment on him first.”
Steve picked up the tube he’d dropped on the bedside table. “I don’t know what this is.”
“Chase says it works.”
“But it could be—”
“It’s okay. My uncle invented it.”
“Your uncle?”
“He’s a doctor, or medical research scientist.”
“And possibly a murderer,” Steve pointed out. “You trust him?”
Did she trust her uncle? She didn’t know, but it hit her then that she trusted Chase—on this at least—and he believed in her uncle. “I trust Chase’s opinion. Use it.”
