Page 118 of Blood and Ruin: The Complete Series

“Just… give me… a… minute.”

“I think it’s gonna take more than a minute to fix this. Your stubborn ass needs to see a healer and soon,” Axel says.

I bite my tongue from the snarky retort that no doubt will just end up hurting me and focus on getting them to understand.

“They won’t work, the healers… They can’t heal me,” I tell them.

I feel the guys freeze around me as everything becomes quiet.

“What do you mean?” Rion asks.

“Why not?”

“My ability,” I tell him. Healers can’t work on me, they never have.

“You never told us what it was?” Kai says from beside me as he rubs my hand.

“Wasn’t meant… to… be… secret... I… heal.”

Jax’s body tenses up behind me as silence surrounds us, making me forget my pain for a second.

Opening my eyes, I wince at the sudden onset of light before finding the guys.

“You can heal?” Luka asks, frowning.

“Just… my… self.”

The guys share a look. One filled with fury, quiet rage, and anguish.

“What else have you—” Jax starts, but Kai cuts him off with a sharp look.

“Not now… Not here.”

Jax looks away, a tremor working its way through his body. Nobody speaks for a moment, all too lost in their own thoughts.

Do they hate that I can heal? That I have kept it from them for so long?

It’s Axel, of all people, who speaks up, breaking the heated silence.

“You sure you can heal from this, princess? It looks pretty bad.” Axel looks over my body and face, his worried expression like stone.

A soft chuckle slips out on a wheeze. “Sounds… like you might… actually care.”

It brings a small smile to his lips. “Maybe just a little.”

A full laugh escapes quickly, turning to a cough, forcing up another stream of blood. It’s not as bad as before, no longer as thick or choking as the last time. But all the guys see is more blood and freak out.

Another high-pitched scream nearly shatters my sensitive ear drums making me wince.

“Someone shut her the hell up!” Kai grits out.

Morana.

Damn it. What am I going to do about her?

Kai kneels down beside me, his worried face blocking out everyone else’s mirrored expressions.

“Kiarra? Baby? Can you fully heal from this?” The sliver of hope glinting in his eyes brings a crooked smile to my face.

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