le Phe
ors of the Savage Pack Medical Center, my feet leaving str
each and antiseptic stung my nostrils, mixed with the faimergency prep room. Thick leather straps clicked around my wris
art, his arms crossed over his chest, watchi
eedles and thick vacuum blood bags. When she saw my sunken cheeks, the deep bruising
depressed. Her blood pressure is plummeting, and without an inner wolf to accelerate bone
ain surgical suite dying of silver shock! If you delay this extraction by another thirty
hands shaking as she t
the leather restraints, pulling with eve
ts, reopening the scabs and sending fresh blood dripping
d, my vocal cords burning. "I am a citizen of
etween his thumb and forefinger, sque
ath hot against my cheek. "You are an unshifted defect. Giving your blood to sav
ling in my mouth and spa
uze pad from the tray, calmly wiped the blood f
u want your official Freedom Contract. You want your name strippe
d at him through narrowed e
d, tapping the leather armrest. "If you do, once your mandatory parole observation period ends next week
hund
that much blood in a single sitting was near-lethal.
I refused, they would simply sedate me and take even more.
my eyes and letting my head fall back agai
e nurse's should
my left elbow. A sharp, cold sting tore through my ar
lastic tubing, filling the first four-hun
from my fingertips toward my chest. My vision narrowed into a dark tunnel, t
taste revived my senses, forcing myself to sta
l bag and yanked the needle from my vein, my
out their support, I slid off the chair
he two warm blood bags by their plastic handles and
but before she could reach out a hand
agged myself upright. My knees shook violentl
all and pulled myself out into the wide, quiet
the private recovery suites. When he heard my uneven footsteps, he stoppe
aching out his arms. "How much blood
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