"Luisa?" Nate's voice sounded panicked to his own ears, so he gritted his teeth and forced a calmness he didn't feel into his words.
"Can you hear me, honey?" Fear settled in his stomach and he swallowed back the bile that threatened to rise. He couldn't lose her now.
Nate sucked in a great big breath and removed the blood-soaked bandage on her forearm. The jagged wound had been raw and bleeding when he'd carried her back home. He noted with relief that the skin had already began knitting itself together. Thank f**k for Shifter healing.
Her skin was looking better now too, her pallor fading. She had more color than she did a half hour ago when he'd first scooped her blood splattered body up off the forest floor just a few yards from her house.
Dammit. I should have never left her al
