Mate Rebound
I was coughing with the effort, blood running from my wounds, my breath a ragged rasp, but I clicked back into a human, pulled Julian’s unconscious form behind a cracked vat spreading heat, his pulse fluttering under my fingers, his graying eyes circuiting with pain.
"Dad," he wheezed, the blood marring his lips- his voice was all but silent, "I… I tried to… stop…"
"Save your strength, boy," I snarled, my insides knotting, rage and love wrangling like warring storms. I’d condemned him a traitor, suspected his loyalties, but the sight of him shattered, bleeding, it moved me—spurred a hard, fierce protectiveness, to make this right. My gaze had darted around the lab, the roar of the vats thund
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