Chapter:-15

"I'm not going to let you die," Damon murmurs, fierce and desperate all at once as Alessia opens her eyes.

Alessia blinked up at him tiredly, paralyzed with medicine and barely breathing. Her face was covered with an oxygen mask and sweat marked her temple.

"I'm not," Damon insists, as if he was convincing himself. The girl thought it was more to fill the silence than anything else.

Alessia wants to tell him that she believes it, that she has no doubt Damon will make sure she will be fine or he will kill Jay Williams and his father, but her lips are as uncooperative as ever, turning a faint pale as she struggles to breathe through the paralysis. Even making her lungs work is hard now.

There is a numbed sting, and Alessia watches as many liquid crawls its way out of her veins, slow and sluggish, as if fighting to stay in. Her veins are an angry purple, turning darker with every moment and Alessia wonders if she looks like the animated corpses so often found in Damon culture.

"Doctor ma