se

nging the penthouse i

ly gripping the small porcelain jar filled

oward Blaine's private study, sto

meant placing all m

ned the brass handle an

t warm amber light acro

ive mahogany desk, holding

nn manor, ceased speaking immediately, bowed his head to me

whiskey, and Blaine's overwhel

me with his glowing amber eyes, w

d set the white porcelain ja

he asked, his vo

your legs," I

le, swirling the whiskey in his glass.

s system," I said, cutting straight to the truth. "And I know your Lycan bloodline is

his face, replaced by a te

ands flat on the desk. "Who told

can smell the silver rot from across the room. This ointment is synthesize

n reached out, uncorking the

scent is different from th

red specifically to dissolve deep-tissue silver toxicity.

dying my expression. "How d

cked up his silver letter opener, and sliced

lled fro

the blue ointment and sm

eeding stopped, and the skin knitted closed

ed slightly before darkeni

ve him time

re his wheelchair and rea

tensing beneath my hands

pant leg, exposi

ath his skin, choking the circulation

lowing eyes to the hard line of his mouth. "Do

reathing roughening as the air

ped to a low, rough rasp. "Cross me, Elise, and

" I br

oth hands against the silver-scarred muscle of his calf. My

inhaled

lared between us, racing throu

eridians, working the medicine deep into the poisoned tis

spicion in his amber eyes melted, slowly,

xchange?" he asked, hi

what I want even more is your protection, the destruction of the Glenn family, an