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Well This was turning into a hell of a

Tori was exhausted, and it wasn’t even ten in the s settled with the police They’d insisted on getting statee Tori really didn’t expect the their jobs, after all

But they also wanted to take Cassie to a hospital, and Tori had to explain repeatedly that they couldn’t help her

The senior cop finally deht shoas they saw on the security ca out when he told thee

Despite the evidence, it had taken a while for them to wrap their heads around it Tori had been forced to cast a sht in front of thes up

He had no desire to stay in a place where he’d already been attacked The police reluctantly let theo Very reluctantly In fact, Tori wasn’t sure if they were actually allowed to leave or if Baldewin had ignored the cops as he got them shuffled up to the hotel rooi eyes atching hi eyes

For now, Cassie was tucked into bed with Sasha pressed as close as she could get without actually holding the e in her lap Tori sat in a heavily cushioned chair positioned at the foot of the bed, keeping a close watch on the young woer from the next room, occasionally punctuated by Warin’s baritone as he added to the conversation with curt tones Neither of theons back at the castle

Lifting out of his chair, Tori crossed the short distance and placed a hand to Cassie’s forehead She was finally warod That unnatural claical core, which had stabilized in the past couple of hours It was muted and faint, compared to what it should be, butit had been before

Seeing Sasha’s anxious expression, he assured her, “She’s doing fine Her body’s war”

Her blue eyes swept closed in relief “Thank all wind and skies Can I do anything to help her?”

“Keep holding her” He turned to his seat with a slight grunt “I know that doesn’t seeical core the strength to recover Direct contact helps The longer you can hold her, the easier it is for her ical core to recuperate”

Sasha blinked down at the wolad, then Is that what helped her when they were draining her of ic? Our bond?”

“In a way, yes” And in a way, it had only prolonged the insanity Given enough ti hoorried she was, he wasn’t about to tell the dragon that “It certainly gave her the strength to hold on”

Her ar form “Thank you, Tori You put yourself at considerable risk to help her Our clan owes you a debt”

With a snort, he stretched out his long legs in front of him He felt tired both physically and emotionally, truth tell Too tired to do encywith cops, had taken a lot out of him “I consider it a debt repaid Baldewin and Warin have already had to rescue me, remember”

“Oh That’s true” She stroked blue hair lovingly away from Cassie’s face “I wouldn’t have kno to help her I’m one of the few born after the war, you see”

He blinked at her “Really? I honestly can’t tell ages with all of you”

“Dragons age so slowly, after all But yes, I was soether only a couple of years when I was born Dragons only go into heat every hundred years or so Unless there’s soon children don’t occur more often than that I was born a hundred and twenty years after the war, and it was a cause of celebration in the clan But because I’s I didn’t learn how to do Like treating a e that’s been attacked”

“Because no one thought you’d need to know” Tori shook his head in sad understanding