Chapter 47: Examination

*Valeria*

He found me. He found me. Just as I knew he would.

The door burst open and Dominic appeared before me, no longer a face in a screen, but the real man.

His appearance was shocking with the blood so bright against his too pale skin, but I didn't care. All I cared about was him.

"Dominic!" I sobbed out, trying to jump from the bed.

Before my feet had even made it to the floor I found myself wrapped in his arms. I clung on hard, crying into his shoulder as his hands rubbed up and down my back and head attempting to soothe…well, and probably, like me, scared that this wasn't real.

But the tingles that danced over my skin proved that it was real: Dominic was here and he had saved me.

"I've got you doll," he choked back. "I've got you."

The days, weeks, maybe even months that had passed of torture and pain, and uncertainty were overshadowed by the warmth that was flooding through my body at his embrace.

I never wanted to leave it again.

But then, he swayed slightly. Domini