a's

he boy. "A very diluted amount but lethal at such a young age. If you h

s down my face. "How long

thing to show you." Katherine Sanders, the prime healer mage and my best friend, took me to the room where the boy was being treated and it struck me a

ne had tried to drink his blood. "He's a vamp

fect match. He'd been starved before they'd injected cyanide into him. It was mainly the drawing out o

hardships at such a young age. His immortality hasn't set in yet, so there's a chance there mig

cyanide is completely out of his system, w

first found him five hours ago. He had been cleaned up and fitted into the hospital attire and had also been given a blood transfusion. Unfortunately, the blood we'd recovered had traces

re turning back to Katherine. "And what about the rest o

e captives were only undernourished or needed a blood transfusion. Some of them can be disch

re she could leave. "Thank

friend would always risk her life to help others.

Not anymore." I told her firmly, crossin

thy gave me a smirk. "I heard t

e I've been an adult for ages even though I'm officia

of her room with a shrug of her shoulders. "I've already s

? It's my eighteenth. I'm pretty sure the entire planet will be i

lowed me out of the facility to where my car was waiting for m

eepily while I scrunched up my face

the power-hungry nobles out of my mind,

here was a sense of age to him even though he looked about twenty years old...like he had been forced to grow up way t

d to call him just to hear his voice, but I knew it was an absurd thought. What was I supposed

ll

creep move to make. So I'll wait to call him, at

Kathy asked a bit hesitantly and I i

him." I sighed. "Honestly, I'm dreading him showing up today. I've sp

peration. "The dude's older than your grandfather and he

r. "You and I are considered the same age according to maturity

ok. "What are you going to do now? There's a lot at stake he

me for people to kn