Tall, Dark & Heartless (Pyte/Sentinel #3)(112)

Cancer?

The cancer was gone, long gone, or at least it should be. Caine turned her into a Pyte. His blood should have fixed all the damage and made it so that she would never die so why the hell was this man saying that she had cancer?

"Give her more of your blood, you cheap bastard!" Caine snapped.

"I am!" Jax snapped back, voice sounding a little slurred. "I'm trying to make it as fast as I can."

"Eat faster!" Caine hissed, probably realizing that she'd probably black out if he yelled right about now.

"I think we should add human blood to the mix," the human said, sounding intrigued when he probably should be nervous right about now since it was more than obvious that the man knew that they were not human judging by the way he said "human blood."

What was going on and where in the world were they? she wondered as she risked scenting the air and immediately stopped when sharp pain stabbed behind her eyes.

"Just relax, baby," Caine said seconds before she felt him shift and heard him swallowing something. She didn't need to look to know it was blood. Was he giving her blood, too? She moved her arms and yup, she definitely felt IVs in her arms.

"What's the quickest way to get this in her system?" the man asked.

"Probably a feeding tube," Jax said with an unmistakable slur to his voice this time.

"No," she said weakly, cringing into herself as pain exploded in her head. She didn't want a feeding tube down her throat and there was no way that she was going to allow them to-

In seconds she found herself on her back and two pairs of hands holding her down as her mouth was pried open and a slick tube was placed in her mouth. She tried to fight back, but she couldn't. She could barely move. Why was she so weak?

"Swallow," the honey rich voice said and when someone pinched her nose shut she was left with very little choice in the matter. While it was guided down her throat she squeezed her eyes shut tighter as she tried to block out the bright light that permeated past her lids.

"I'm sorry, baby," Caine whispered as he released her arm and covered her eyes with his hand, blocking out the light for her. When she felt cold blood settle in her stomach seconds later it was joined by a wave of exhaustion.

"Just sleep, baby. When you wake up this will all be over," Caine promised and for the first time in years she gave her trust over to another person.

Chapter 41

"What is she?" the doctor asked, again.

Caine ignored his question and asked one of his own. "Is the cancer gone yet?" They'd been locked up in the room for five hours trying to feed Danni, stretch out their blood with human blood, and telling the f**king cops who wouldn't take a hint to get lost.

Before the man could answer, the pounding at the door started up again. "Dr. Philips, this is the police! Open up!"

Instead of yelling for help, the man shot a glare at the door. "I already told you that I'm with a patient!" he snapped, not sounding too happy with the interruption.

"Check quickly, doc," Jax said as he snapped the lock off the large bay window, that was probably meant to keep the room sunny to distract the blood donors from thinking about the needle shoved in their arms, and slid it open.

With a frown the man did as he was asked. Caine scented the air and nearly groaned. There were about fifteen men on the other side of that door and they needed to get out of here before things got any worse.

"The tissue appears to be gone," the doctor said as he gently moved the handheld device down between Danni's br**sts, leaving a trail of gel behind. "It's amazing," the man said and the only reason Caine didn't rip his throat out then and there was because he knew the man was talking about Danni's recovery and not her br**sts.

"Thanks for your help, Doc," he said, tossing the red cooler filled with bagged blood to Jax.

"Meet you outside," Jax said, shifting the cooler in his arms as he stepped up onto the windowsill.

"What the hell are you doing?" the doctor demanded, moving to stop Jax. "We're three floors up."

With a chuckle, Jax jumped.

Since the man hadn't pissed him off he decided to let him live. "Come on, beautiful," he said softly as he wrapped a thick hospital blanket around his beautiful mate and picked her up.

"Where the hell is he?" the doctor asked as he peered out the window.

"Gone," Caine said as he hopped up onto the windowsill.

"Stop!" the doctor yelled, reaching out to stop him, but Caine was already moving to jump and the men outside the door were done waiting. Before he reached the ground he heard the door slam open and the men run into the room.

He hit the small patch of grass, running and didn't stop until he spotted Jax's navy blue SUV. He'd barely managed to jump in the backseat before Jax hit the gas.

"You're going to have to hide out with us for a little while," Jax said as the sounds of sirens drew closer.

As much as he would love to have a little help nursing Danni back to health he couldn't do that to Jax or his pack. They'd helped him with his mate and were now relocating because of them. They'd done enough.

"Just get me to a motel and lend me some money and I'll owe you one," he said as he looked down at Danni just as she curled into him and let out a little content sigh.