Page 74 of Bound By Love
It was coming back with relentless determination. It had been too long since he last fed, and he’d been battered by the rocks trapping him beneath the rubble.
He had no idea how many days they spent trapped, and when he tried asking, he didn’t have the strength to do so. Saber was weakening from blood loss, but he couldn’t stop giving her more blood. He’d kill himself to save her.
CHAPTERSIXTY-TWO
“How long doyou plan to let this continue?”Kadence whispered into Ronan’s mind.
Her sorrow emanated across their bond. She couldn’t look at Saber and Caro anymore as she kept her head bowed and her eyes closed against Saber’s grief.
“You don’t have to stay,”he told her.
“Yes, I do.”
“I’m okay,”he assured her.
Though, he wasn’t so sure. He’d never become exceptionally close with Saber, but he liked the vamp and was amazed at how far the ex-Savage had come over the years. Not only was he a powerful fighter, but he’d overcome his Savage nature, something most couldn’t fight once it consumed them.
A man that strong-willed deserved better than this.
But there was nothing he could do to change it. He could only stand here, wait for Saber to accept his fate, and protect the others if Saber turned violent again.
“I know,”Kadence whispered.
“Go.”
“He deserves as much comfort as he can get right now.”
“I doubt he knows we’re here.”
“He knows.”
Ronan sighed over his mate’s stubborn nature. “It will go on until he’s had enough.”
He was beginning to think Saber might kill himself trying to save his mate, and maybe that was for the best. He would have done the same if it were him and Kadence sitting on this pile of rocks.
Ronan glanced toward the mounds of rocks still between them and the doorway. There was no sign of the entrance to Hell, and he would ensure it remained blocked off.
As Saber grew weaker, Brie stepped forward. Asher reached out to stop her, but she shook her head and stepped around the hand he held toward her as she cautiously approached her brother.
When she stopped behind Saber, she went to rest a hand on his shoulder but dropped it before connecting with him. “I can give her some of my blood.”
Saber cradled Caro closer.
“You’re weakening. You’ve lost too much blood and haven’t fed in a while. Let me give her some of mine,” Brie insisted.
When Saber lifted his head to meet her eyes, their red color was brighter than a stoplight. Despite his blood loss, the red and black swirling through his flesh became deeper and more vibrant.
The blood he’d lost had weakened him, as was evidenced in the slump of his shoulders and the growing circles under his eyes, but he was still incredibly volatile and capable of destroying anyone who got in his way. When Asher stepped toward his mate, Ronan seized his arm.
Brie had received a vision of Asher dying down here; they’d all assumed it would be because of the demons and Savages, but while they remained anywhere near Saber, Asher was in danger. And his brother-in-law could be the one to unleash his death.
From the looks of Saber, he might go after Brie too, but it was less likely. However, another male near his dead mate could be the thing that set him off. And in this state of mind, Saber might not know who he was attacking.
The look Asher gave him would have terrified many vampires; Ronan didn’t acknowledge it. He understood Asher’s need to go to his mate, but he wouldn’t do Brie any good if he ended up in a fight with her brother. And he wouldn’t doanyof them any good if he was dead.
Ronan didn’t want to fight the hunter-turned-vamp, but he would if it meant keeping Brie and Kadence safe. Asher’s interference wouldn’t help with that.
“Brie,” Asher said in an irritated voice.
