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could only hope
that him bleeding out would push out the substance inflicting him.
    “Hold on… Just, hold on,” Seth mumbled, using
his free arm to grab onto a large tree trunk. Alexa glared back at
him, her worry only growing when she saw just how pale he had grown.
    “What? You going to puke?”
    Seth shook his head, tightening his grip on her shoulder. “No…
Do you smell that?”
    “Smell?” Alexa raised her head, scenting while letting
her eyes drift to the forest around them. They were only a half hour
up the trail and they’d been wandering slowly through most of
it, neither of them in a hurry to get anywhere, just happy for the
fresh air outside of the car. She wanted to get him back as soon as
possible and she really didn’t think a smell was reason enough
to stop unless it was fire or death. “I don’t smell
anything but your blood.”
    Seth frowned, breathing deeper, his blue eyes closing. “It’s
good, Lexa… It smells really fucking good.”
    Goddamn, please don’t let this be some sort of fairy trick.
Alexa raised her pipe; it was her own design, a wand enchanted to
repel most predators, magical or not, with its power. And what the
magic didn’t work on, she was happy to beat the fuck out of
until the creature got the picture and left. “Seth, we need to
get back. Now. Whatever is in your system is hitting you fast.”
    “It smells so good.” Seth leaned forward, Alexa
jolting when she felt his breath brush hot against her ear. “It’s
heady… like thick honey…”
    “If you follow that up with brains, so help me, Seth
Stevens, I will not be responsible for the beating I give you,”
Alexa warned, her hand grasping her wand harder.
    “You smell really good… Really good,” he
murmured unapologetically, his nose brushing into her long blond
locks as he inhaled slowly. “Hell, why do you smell like that,
Lexa?”
    Alexa took a steadying breath, trying to ignore her growing fear
and really fucking stupid body that wanted more than anything to let
him sniff her neck like some idiot. His lips brushed her jaw and she
gasped, fighting back a low whimper.
    “Seth, something has injected you with a foreign, possibly
magical substance,” she said as calmly and rationally as
possible. “I smell the way I always smell, you’re just
perceiving it differently because you’re being influenced
beyond your control. Which means I need you to move your long ass
legs and lug your impossibly heavy body the fuck out of here so I can
get you help.” She tugged hard on his arm to no avail. Seth was
a good head taller than her and was a fucking wall of a man. “Come
on, you big lunk. Move.”
    “I’m acting weird,” Seth said after a moment,
his eyes blinking open again. He looked down to where his mouth was
pressed to the side of his friend’s cheek, slowly pulling back
until his breath was no longer tingling on her pale skin. “Sorry…
Sorry.”
    “Just walk, Seth. I’ll kick your ass later. Just do
this one little thing for me.” There was no way she’d be
able to carry him. She might be able to enchant a pipe with the right
spell book to scare the fuck out of things, but she didn’t have
anything that could make her mountain of a best friend lighter. If
she had to, she’d leave him and run for help, but she didn’t
want to do that. Not with Seth already so fucked up. Not with that
thing still out there, likely trailing them that very moment.
    Thankfully, Seth got a hold of himself. He forced his bloodied leg
forward, wincing as he put weight on it and used the momentum to
start walking. “I’ll make this up to you. I knew this
weekend was going to suck—”
    “Like I said; there is no way the hospital is going to be
worse than the spa,” Alexa said briskly, glaring at her
surroundings to fight back the sting of tears. Fuck Chloe for this.
Fuck this entire fucking trip. If Seth ended up dead because of that
stupid bitch…
    “I’ll buy you a case of Red Bull,” Seth
muttered,