Chapter 140

EMMA

My body looked like it clawed its way up from hell.

There were burns, cuts, bruises, and those veins looked even angrier than ever before. The bastard slapped my face, which was not healing as fast as it should. I looked at my boys and could tell that they were thinking the same things. I knew they were both trying to keep their anger in check for my sake.

“How is this blood thing going to work?” I asked, looking up at Kai through my eyelashes, and biting and lip.

“Damnit you’re so fucking tempting. Don’t bite that lip,” Kai said as he kissed the tip of my nose and took a breath to steady himself. “Macario and I were discussing it, and we figured we could just try directly applying my blood to the veins. We’ll see an immediate change if it helps at all. We’ll come up with an alternative if it does nothing.”

Xander brought some wet wash cloths and dry towels over to the couch we were sitting on. I pulled my shirt off and put my hair up in a ponytail. The veins were worse than