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expect Mikhaila to. She shook her head but went to do as Nikkos had asked her to.
    Lucian and Marcus helped her take the two of them to Nikkos’s room, and placed them both in his bed, side by side. Nikkos watched the whole time and flinched any time either of the two unconscious patients moaned. “Are they in pain?” he asked, anxious.
    “They shouldn’t be, but I can give them some more painkillers in about an hour if they are still stable.”
    “Okay I’ll see you in an hour. I’ll take care of them until then. By the way, did you find any ID on her? I don’t even know her name.”
    “Yeah, she had ID in her pocket. It’s in the med room somewhere.” Mikhaila explained that she had found the ID while she was cutting the paramedic’s uniform off her. Since Nikkos wasn’t going to budge to go get the ID, Mikhaila sent Marcus after it.
    He came back a few minutes later with everything that was in the female’s pockets, which wasn’t much, an ID, a necklace, and a debit card. They had found what they assumed was her cell phone in Adrian ’s pocket. Of course, his was gone, and it was clear Marcus was really pleased with that. He had just given the boy a new one tonight because he broke the last one in a fight the week before.
    “If you need anything, just call me and I’ll be right here,” Mikhaila told him as she left the room. Marcus and Lucian looked like they wanted to stay and find out what went on tonight, but they would be getting no answers out of Adrian for a few hours at least and even longer before the female came around, so she dragged them out of the room.

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    “Maybe one of us should stay close by in case he decides to kill him for being so close to his female.”
    Marcus couldn’t help but think this way. He was so protective of his mate that if a male looked at her in any way, he was in danger of losing his eyes. The only male he tolerated alone near her was his twin, Lucian, and that was pushing it sometimes, depending on the mood he was in.
    “They will be fine. Let’s go clean up so we can have some dinner before dawn, shall we?” She gave Marcus a look that she wanted more than dinner before dawn. Lucian must have taken this as his cue to leave the two of them alone because he was gone in an instant.

Chapter Four

    Nikkos stood next to his California king-sized bed. It had black silk sheets and a thick, deep-red-and-black comforter. He had to have that size because he was six foot eight. Any other size bed and his feet would hang off the end. Adrian, who was all of six feet six inches and weighed two seventy-five, looked twice the size of the little human lying next to him.
    He raked his fingers through his hair, pulled a chair up to the foot of the bed, and collapsed into it. He looked down at the female’s belongings in his hands. The first was a charm necklace with a cross, a bullet, a dragonfly, and a locket with a very worn picture of a baby.
    Did she have a baby? He called Lucian and had him find her address and sent him over to check it out. The only other things on her were her paramedic ID and a debit card with the name Anstice Karra. Greek? Anstice, one who will rise again. Let’s hope so. She may still need a miracle to get through this. No one knew the effect their blood would have on a human, and that was why it was against the rules, but it was the only option at the time, and he had to do something. He just hoped his desperation did not hurt her more than she already was .
    Karra, dark . He hoped her future was bright and not dark, thanks to his blood that now ran through her veins. He studied her for a while. Her hair was a dark auburn with blood-red highlights. He couldn’t see them, but knew her eyes were the palest gray he had ever seen. They were almost silver. They had placed her on her side so her back could heal, and she had immediately wrapped her arm around Adrian ’s waist and snuggled into his side. It was almost as if she were the moon and