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Releasing the creature, Devi couldn’t tell whose blood she was covered in. But they’d won.

The beast was dead.

“Devi.” She heard Kate whisper her name, but it sounded far away.

“She’s lost a lot of blood.”

Cappelli.

God.

She was such a b…

CHAPTER12

Kate satin the ungodly hospital chair and watched the machines dance to Devi’s heartbeat. She was bandaged and casted to the nth degree and Kate didn’t know whether to scream or just crawl in bed beside her.

It wasn’t fair.

She’d gotten the chance to see her, only to almost lose her again.

Who was she kidding? The second she woke up, she’d be gone now that the beast was dead.

But it hadn’t just been a beast.

She’d crawled over to cradle Devi’s head in her lap as the vampire called in for medical support and watched as the grotesque animal shifted form.

Her gasp brought the vampire’s attention back in her direction and her lips formed a grim line.

It had been Cybelle.

But that hadn’t answered every question in her mind. The girl wasn’t the type to think of all of this on her own.

And why would she kill her girlfriend?

Just because she sold some spells?

No.

It didn’t make sense.

She tried to tell the vampire, but she was on the phone again talking with her supervisor. Not long after, the ambulance came and with it, a flurry of activity.

They tried to pry Devi from her arms but she wouldn’t let them. And now here she was, waiting for her to wake up so she would at least know she was safe.

A blip from one of the machines brought her out of her head and she found herself looking into Devi’s eyes.

“Hey.”

“Hey yourself.”

Devi gave her a half-hearted smile, then winced. “Where’s Cappelli?”

“With the crime scene techs. They have a lot of work to do out there. That girl who killed those people, I knew her.”

“I’m sorry.”

“It doesn’t make sense.”

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