"Take it out of him. I'll put a stake through your miserable vampire heart and cut off your head. Take it out. Right now."
"It's done. The sliver is bespelled and will come out in six months." Nicholas's voice was calm and controlled, with that faint edge of contempt in it.
Sabrina immediately made the connection. She'd endured two months with him when he could've healed her knee and didn't. He'd multiplied the time by three. Still this was too much. She couldn't bear to see him suffer. "What if he has to battle the gargoyles or the drogge? Please release him."
"No."
Sabrina looked around, desperate to make him release Mark. On the table, with his other instruments of torture, a silver knife lay next to a wicked looking scalpel. She grabbed the knife and pressed it knife against his st
