Chapter 111
Myblood might be rare, but it wasn’t special. It couldn’t turn back lime. It couldn’t stop what had already happened.
But maybe—just maybe–it could give him one more shot.
She placed the items beside me on a tray and looked at me carefully. “It’s wonderful of you to do this for that boy.”
My voice felt hoarse. “It’s nothing.”
She tilted her head. “Are you related?
“No,” answered automatically.
She smiled, not unkindly. “Even more amazing, then.”
The nurse checked the tubing again. The bag was almost full,
“The Goddess was looking down on us today.”
I frowned. “Why do you say that?”
It certainly didn’t feel like the Moon Goddess had been smiling on us. Not after the blood. The screaming. The knife at Alden’s throat.
Not after holding him while his body went limp in my arms, his pulse weak and fading.
I could still feel it–warm and wet and terrifying his life’s blood seeping out and onto my arms.
The nurse gave a soft chuckle, oblivious to the war inside my chest “ABX is almost unheard of. It’s 17 thousands of wolves who will go their whole lives without meeting someone with a matching type.”
She glanced at the bag beside me, the tube still drawing slow, rhythmic pulses of blood from my arm.
“It’s why we don’t have a big store of it. Why we always need more she went on.
My fingers dug into the armrest. A slow, creeping tightness began to build in my shoulders.
“How rare?” I asked. My voice was hoarse.
rarest of rare. There are
“One in ten thousand shifters,” she said gently. “Maybe more. That’s why I asked if you were family. ABX isn’t just rare genetic. Passed down through bloodlines. If he has it, one of his parents had to.”
The world stopped spinning.
The fluorescent lights overhead hummed like static in my ears. The blood flowing from my arm might as well have been a faucet left running–I couldn’t feel it anymore.
I could only feel the weight of her words.
Elena Isn’t ADX.
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She’d told the doctor that. I remembered it with perfect clarity–etched into my s
So how
The nurse glanced at the monitor again “The boy’s mother said his father wasn’t in the picture. We thought the worst. Without the father or another ABX family member around. That boy was as good as dead. But then you showed up.”
She smiled, like the answer had fallen from the stars. “The odds have to be astronomical. Thank the Moon Goddess you were here. You know, you should think of becoming a regular donor. Donate every week, that’s what you should do. You know-”
But I wasn’t listening anymore.
Nichopter!!!!
Iwasn’t breathing.
His father wasn’t in the pleture, Elena had sald. Of course in was. Topan and Elena were engaged for Goddess’s sale.
Lagar
The odds of Logan also being AIX were astronomical, the marse ha sald. He couldn’t be.
And now, like a curtain being yanked back, it all clicked.
Aiden wasn’t his
He was mine.
+26 BONUS
I stared straight ahead, but my vision tunneled. The monitor beeped beside me. The blood bag was full, almost too full. Good, I thought vaguely.
The only thing I could hear was the echo of my heartbeat and one angle truth pounding through my skull,
He was mine.
Alden was my son
And I had almost lost him before lever knew.
Something inside me snapped taut–some ancient instinct that came roaring to life.
He was mine.
And no one
not time, not fate, not the Moon Goddess herself–was going to take him away from me again.
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Chapter 112
