Chapter 165

There was no need for elaboration because she understood what he was asking. "I was frantic. I tried warming her with my body but it wasn't working. Nothing I did worked..." A shudder went through her body as she remembered that helplessness, "...nothing. I was not what she needed, you were. I was about to give up when I remembered Ismena telling me everything that happened in the human world and the things she found out from her father. The part where your blood is running through her veins. It's the only part of you that was available so that's where the crazy idea came from."

"What crazy idea?"

Eline walked closer then, raised the corner of the bedclothes that covered Ismena's body, and gently withdrew her left hand. That was when Wolfaraine saw it. The small cut above her wrist.

That was when the smell of fresh blood finally registered on his brain too.

Eline stepped back nervously. "I sucked her blood with my mouth and made her swallow it back. Repeatedly. I thought that if her