“What are you doing, Adelay?” Davin was right behind me.
I fell to my knees next to Sully, knowing that I didn’t have much time left. “The gypsy said that my blood could heal him. I just have to give it to him willingly.”
Eli looked at Davin with a look of concern for what I was about to do, but also a plea for help hid silently behind his beautiful hazel eyes. His son was dying, and he was relying solely on me to bring him back.
He swallowed. “Adelay, there’s something you should know if you do this.” Eli hesitated to say more, then looked again at Davin who continued where he left off.
“If you give him your blood you will be able to save him, which I want more than anything; but you must know that in turn you and I will no longer be able to be together as one. You can only share your blood in this manner to the one you are destined to be with. You will be bound to Sully as his life mate.”
“What? How can that be?”
“It’s just the way it works. You’re sharing something sacred to save his life, so in turn he gets yours. I have no explanation or power over this.”
My head spun in a million different directions at what fate my sole decision would make for all of us. Everyone’s future rested in the palm of my hand. I loved Davin more than my heart could ever love another person, but if I didn’t do this then one more innocent life would be taken because of me. I’d lost Xander, and I would forever suffer with that burden; but I didn’t have to lose Sully.
He had proven he was far more than the arrogant, egotistical man I thought he was. He had laid down his life for me, and he loved me just as much as Davin did. Davin held my face to his, letting me feel his breath on my lips. I knew what he was feeling this very moment and it scared me to death.
“Adelay, you have awakened feelings in me that I never experienced before, but always dreamed I would. I love you more than I ever knew I could love someone, and our time together has made me the happiest man alive; but that is my brother dying right there, my flesh and blood. And if I put my own selfishness and happiness before him, I couldn’t live with myself. I am willing to let the one thing go that makes my life one hundred percent complete and makes me want to continue on living; even if it means I will be miserable and alone for the rest of my life. If I can’t be with you as your lover and soul mate, then at least I will be able to still see your beautiful face every day with my brother and remember what we shared and what we will always feel for one another.”
Sully groaned quietly as his body started to quiver spastically. He was in a lot of pain and losing what little bit of life he had left. If I was going to do this, it had to be done now. It wasn’t about me and Davin anymore, or our happiness; it was about the man in front of me who was dying and was dying trying to protect me.
“I have to do it, Davin. I can’t let him die for our happiness. We couldn’t live with ourselves if we choose otherwise.”
He nodded, squeezing his eyes closed before kissing me softly and letting go of my face. “I know. I love you Adelay, and always will. You will always be in my thoughts, forever in my heart.”
“I love you, too, Davin. You have to know that will never change as long as my heart beats or there is a breath in my body. I’m doing this because I love you, and your family doesn’t ever need to be broken.”
“My family will not be, but my heart will be broken forever.”
With that I held my wrist over Sully’s mouth that was slightly parted with his head tilted back in Katerina’s arms. Tears moistened her porcelain face. She looked at Davin with so much compassion in her beautiful aqua eyes. At that moment, I knew she was feeling his sorrow right now; but she was also feeling her other son’s pain.
Davin hung his head towards the ground, with nothing but sadness riding on his face from the decision we had just made together, the one that would forever change the direction in which our lives were headed. It was nothing either of us had expected.
Eli put his arm around Davin’s shoulders, squeezing him into his side to comfort his hurting son. Katerina pulled a sparkling silver brooch from her dress, handing it to me. I shakily took it from her, plunging it into my wrist, then pulling down hard so that it ripped my skin open deeper, instantly drawing blood which dripped directly into his open mouth.
His eyelids twitched with each droplet that hit his lips but nothing else was moving yet to indicate that anything was happening. We were all expecting something incredible to occur and that just wasn’t coming.
Katerina suddenly looked at Eli panicked. “His heart has stopped completely, Eli! He isn’t breathing anymore, you have to do something!”
Eli let go of Davin, kneeling down next to Sully, pushing his two fingers into his neck to check his pulse. He nodded; blinking back tears confirming that it had ceased. Katerina began to cry softly. Davin grabbed my wrist tightly with one hand, twisting the laceration hard to stimulate a stream of blood to run into Sully's mouth.
Then a miracle happened.
The dark plum veins that were dominating every visible area of his body from beneath his translucent
