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  “What are Green Hornets?” Sonia asked, rushing towards them.

  Damion was already reaching for his phone even as he asked Chale, “Where’s Carrie?”

  Chale glanced at Sonia. “He’ll be okay. We heal quickly and then to Damion, “She’s underground and we have a team getting her to Sunrise.”

  The rest was a blur for Sonia. She barely remembered how she ended up in a hospital-like room, standing back as several people she didn’t know and Becca ripped open some kind of special second skin bulletproof vest that Kel wore and she surmised that Green Hornets were bullets. There was blood. So much blood. Too much blood. Tears streamed down her face, fear and helplessness welling inside her. Then they were operating, right there, without any special tools, just pulling out bullet after bullet.

  “Oh God,” she whispered. “This is going to kill him.”

  “Come here, Sonia,” Becca called out from the bedside, holding a towel over one of the bleeding wounds. Oh God. There were so many holes. Becca pointed to a monitor where a pretty blonde female was displayed on the screen.

  “Sonia, I’m Kelly,” she said. “I’m the Chief of Medical Staff for the Renegades. Listen, honey, we don’t have long here. I understand you’re his lifebond.”

  “Yes,” Sonia managed.

  “Okay, good. But you haven’t done the blood exchange?”

  She shook her head. “No.”

  “Okay. GTECHs can survive most injuries but there is something called a healing sickness. It’s caused by the vitamin C deficiency. When the injuries are too extreme, it’s intense. The more advance the GTECH in his special abilities, the more it seems to affect him. There’s something I’ve been experimenting with to try to combat it. The bullets are out so he has the ability to heal if we can trigger the reaction. I need you to do the blood exchange now. If my initial testing is right, it will overcome the vitamin C deficiency.”

  A dream took vivid form in Sonia’s mind, a dream of this moment, and she now knew why she’d been so irrationally desperate to get Damion to take her with him. “Yes, okay. Anything to save him.”

  “Sonia,” Kelly said. “Once you do this-”

  “I die if he dies,” she supplied, “and that means now, today. I understand. I’ll do it. Of course, I’ll do it. Just save him. Please. Save him.”

  ***

  Kel woke in his bed, the scent of her around him, the soft strands of her honey-colored hair caressing his skin while her soft fingers traced the angel wing on his arm. The last thing he remembered were the bullets, the pain, and the darkness, but now, the wounds were gone.

  “Since I’m naked and you’re not,” he murmured, “I’m assuming I didn’t miss anything I didn’t want to.”

  She laughed. “No, but your clothes were bloody and every time I tried to dress you, you rolled over.”

  “My own personal angel caring for me,” he said. “I’m really dead this time and you’re the dream, aren’t I?” he asked softly, capturing her hand with his and sucking in a breath when their gazes locked. “Your eyes-”

  “Are black,” she supplied. “Yes. They are. Because you see, us GTECH women only have one man and-”

  He pulled her to him and kissed her, happier than he thought he’d ever been. “We did the blood exchange?”

  “Yes,” she said. “The doc said it would save your life.”

  Realization washed over him like ice water. “So you had to do it.”

  “I was going to say the same thing,” she argued. “You had to do it. You didn’t tell me about it so maybe you didn’t want to be stuck with me forever and ever.”

  He smiled and rolled her to her back, settling on top of her. “For your information I had planned the blood exchange for a very special moment.” He kissed her and rolled over, reaching to the bedside table before turning back so that they lay facing each other. “I went and picked this up from your house today.” He set the velvet box between them and opened the lid to display the white diamond ring he’d given her years before. “I planned to ask you to marry me again when I knew this world was where you wanted to be. And then, we’d do the blood exchange. We are bound by blood, but we don’t have to live together. It’s still a choice. So I’m asking you to make that choice now. Marry me, Sonia. Spend forever with me and I promise I will make up the past few years to you.”

  She studied him a long moment. “When would you have decided to ask me? When would I have been a part of your world?”

  “The minute I knew you saw how brutal it was, and you still said you wanted to be here. I’d say you know. So, Sonia -”

  “Yes,” she said, wrapping her arms around him and pressing close to him. “Yes. I will marry you, and no, you don’t have to make anything up to me. Just love me, Kel. Just love me.”

  “That’s the easiest thing anyone has ever asked me to do. Because I do. I love you, Sonia, more than I knew anyone could love.”

  The End.

  Please check out the full sized novel released May 1st - THE DANGER THAT IS DAMION!

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