Chapter 50

CHAPTER 50

THREXIN

H is Alina was unresponsive. Threxin had placed her as gingerly as he could on her back and then tore from the room and into the hallway, expecting to have to hunt down Lesthin or Renza or someone to assist.

Instead, he ran into them just outside, Lesthin and Renza licking exorin from their lips as they leaned against the wall and Orion Halen and his female looking extremely disturbed. Kaia ripped her arm from her male's grip. Her eyes widened at the crimson stain on his chest.

Seemingly unperturbed by the fact that Threxin was entirely nude, she shoved past him and into the room. "What the fuck did you do to her?"

"Lesthin," Threxin barked at the medic and jerked his chin toward the door. He knew what to do.

Renza hesitated, then pushed himself off the wall. He glanced at Orion Halen, who did not seem inclined to follow his female into the room.

"Did it work?" Renza asked Threxin at last, seemingly deciding there was no point hiding anything from Orion Halen at this point, considering all he had witnessed.

Did it work, Threxin thought wryly.

What he had seen… What his Alina had shown him… The exte nt of this human's capacity for connection rivaled even that to which an uhyre felt that innate rage inside. And she took that too. She felt the violence-fueled desire and took it. Held it and gave back a devotion so whole and so unthinkable that it dwarfed whatever base instincts he may have in comparison.

When Threxin had licked her blood from her chest, it made him want to consume the rest of her, but not by ripping her open or breaking her body. He wanted to consume her soul and hold it forever. He could not afford to hurt her and lose this thing she had given him, nor could he bring himself to let her go.

"Are all humans like this?" Threxin turned to Orion Halen. "Do they—you—all feel this much?"

Orion Halen glanced into the open door in which his female's red hair bobbed over the bed. He ran a hand through his pitch black hair. "Yes. It can drive you fucking crazy."

Threxin rolled his jaw, realizing he was in for a lot of pain with this newfound dimension of existence.

"It worked," he turned back to his brother. "Perhaps too well. But it is necessary."

Renza deflated with palpable relief and his hand, which had been gripping his weapon, lifted to land firmly on Threxin's shoulder. "Then you have saved us all."