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My gaze darted to Becca’s still form. Becca didn’t get a fair chance either.
“She’s still alive,” Redmond’s voice cut through the quiet, startling me. He’d been examining the glass tanks with the specimen. “Your sister.”
“I don’t know how to save her,” I said, my voice small. “I’ve always taken care of her, but I don’t know what to do now. I don’t know how to make this right. How to fix her.”
Can a vampire truly understand? They were dead. Their hearts did not beat.
But I looked at Redmond and knew I was wrong. Even dead he felt just as much as I did. He lost his fiancée. Broken into a high security compound to exact revenge.
He took one look at my face and seemed to decide something. His eyes were full of compassion as he walked up to my sister.
“I can save her. But it needs to be your decision.”
“How?” I staggered to my feet, unsteady legs threatening to give out from under me. My eyes were firmly on my sister’s face, scared to look anywhere else lest I notice that her chest was barely moving. “What they did to her…”
Could someone come back from that? Was it truly possible for him to save her?
“She’d be different.” Redmond shushed the protest that sprung to my lips.
“Part vampire?”
“Vampire, witch and whatever else they forced into her veins. Looks and smells like demon. But she’d be alive.” Gentle hands grasped my chin. “She’ll need her sister. If you can’t accept her for what she is now, we can let nature take its course. She’s hanging on, but barely.”
“Wouldn’t the demon essence kill you?”
He laughed softly. “Worried about me?”
I scowled. “No, of course not.”
“No, it wouldn’t. They barely got anything into her.”
I stopped myself from agreeing on the spot. “What’s your price?” There was always a price with vampires.
“You already paid me, sweetheart,” he replied, motioning to Stryker.
Heedless of what he was I grabbed his hands. “Do it,” I whispered quickly, before I could change my mind.
Not wasting any time Redmond walked over to my sister, unfastening her bonds. I’d seen vampires feed before. Both in a controlled demonstration at the Institute and out on the hunt. But I’d never watched without doing anything. I couldn’t tear my eyes away from the way his fangs sank into the soft skin of her neck, piercing deeper that a vampire would bite if he were merely feeding.
It took every bit of my control not to lash out at him, to stop him. His eyes were on me while he drained my sister, and then, as he bit into his own wrist to feed his blood back to my sister to start the transformation.
At first nothing happened. Becca’s head lolled to the side, and I feared the worst. But then, as if in trance, her mouth found the blood at his wrist.
Timid at first, she licked at the crimson drops clinging to his skin. But like a shark who tasted blood, her eyes snapped open, and she snarled, sinking her teeth into his flesh with a ferocity that made me stagger back.
Wide-eyed I watched as her flat human teeth bit down hard enough to break skin.
Redmond didn’t make a sound. I couldn’t even tell if it hurt him.
“Monsters,” a voice whispered. I almost jumped out of my skin. The male hunter looked at us in disgust. I’d forgotten he even existed. Redmond had found more magically enforced cuffs while I’d been beating the shit out of White.
Grabbing my pistol, I walked over to him and knocked him out with the butt of the weapon. He’d been complicit in what happened to my sister, so he could count his lucky stars this was all I did to him.
His eyes rolled back in his head, and he shut his mouth again. The female huntress – Howard’s jealous girlfriend – was still out of it, but she too was cuffed.
As I turned back around to see how Redmond and Becca were doing, he was cradling her limp body in his arms. Two fangs were her previously flat human teeth had been protruded from her upper lips. Those weren’t the only noticeable changes. Greenish scales covered her arms and parts or her face.
“What have I done?” I breathed.
