Conrad POV
“LEWANA NO”.
I hold my girl. The girl who just took two fatal poison darts for me, trying to hold in her screams as she fights the poison. She has blocked the bond so I don’t feel her pain but Jace is desperately trying to break through to take the pain for her.
I stroke her face trying to comfort her while Liam looks on in horror over my shoulder. “It’s OK baby, I’m here”.
Through gritted teeth, she starts trying to talk. “Lab”.
I pause. “What do you mean?”
Liam screams an order. “EVERYONE. MEDICAL. NOW”. He understood the order and started taking charge. “Pick up every soldier shot with a dart and get them to the medical center. NOW”.
Liam knows I’m not letting go of Lewana so I pick her up and get in the truck cradling her gently to my chest while challenging death to
