Page 44 of Angelina

“Yes, it was.”She studied me, staring at my scar for a moment, and I turned away from her.

She took hold of my chin.“Don’t shy away from someone when they look at that scar.You earned that.”

“It’s still ugly as shit.”

“Well, I think it’s sexy.”She grinned.As if to prove a point, she put her hands on the sides of my face and pulled it toward her.She plastered a big wet kiss on my scarred cheek and then smiled at me.

As she stepped away, I put my hand to my cheek.Not because she had kissed it, but because for the first time since I had been scarred, I felt something.The skin where her mouth had touched me was tingling.As my hand rested on my cheek, I felt the scar physically changing.

I snaked my hand out and grabbed her arm.“Angelina, what did you just do?”

She looked at me like I had two heads.“Um, I believe that is called a big sloppy kiss.”

“Do it again.”

She jerked back, screwing up her face.“Why?You that hard up for female companionship?”

“No, when you kissed it, I felt it tingling.I want to see if it was my imagination.”

She shook her head but stepped forward.“Where do you want me to kiss you now?”

“On the other cheek.See if it feels the same.”

She leaned forward and kissed it, but nothing happened.Corbin was observing from behind her.

“Anything?”she asked.

“No.I guess I imagined it.”

She looked thoughtful for a moment, and then she lifted her hand and put it against my scar.I felt it tingle again, but not as much as the first time.

“Maybe the nerves are coming back to life,” I said as I shook my head.

She was staring at the scar and ran her finger over it.“Gid, it does look a little less angry.Let me try something.It might seem a little weird, but for some reason, inside my soul, it feels like it would work.”

“Go ahead.”

She hesitated for a moment.“You’re probably not going to like this, but I need you to take just a little of my blood.”

“What?No!”

“Trust me, it’s going to be okay.”She bit her finger hard enough to pierce the skin and held her hand out to me.“Suck on my finger just once.”

I stared at her blood, fighting the urge to lap it up because I knew it would hurt like hell.“Come on.I’m not going to let anything happen to you, Gid.”

I glanced at Corbin, who shrugged as if to say, what have you got to lose.

I lifted her hand to my mouth, and after swallowing the lump in my throat, I pulled her finger into my mouth, sucking as hard as I could to extract more.The taste was incredible.I suddenly wanted to latch on to her vein and suck as hard as I could, except a second later, I felt the burn.I released her hand immediately.

She laughed.“Give me your wrist.”I held my hand out to her, and her fangs elongated, her eyes turning almost white as she put her hand against my cheek and then bit into my wrist.

My jaw dropped as I felt the skin vibrating on my cheek and watched as her eyes grew even brighter.After a few seconds, she removed her fangs and peeled her hand from my cheek, smiling.My face was burning, but not like it was on fire.It was as if it were healing.Nothing else in my body seemed affected.

I ran to the small mirror that Corbin had on the wall and leaned toward it.“Holy shit!It’s healing!”A specific vibration went through your body while it was healing, and damn if it wasn’t vibrating right now.“How did you do that?”

She shrugged.“I don’t know.”

I stared at my image and saw the area where her hand had been smoothing out slightly.Behind me, Angelina and Corbin both watched over my shoulder.

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