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Fuck!
If this strong, powerful matriarch was in tears, it meant only one thing. Axel shut his eyes and prayed.
“I’m sorry,” Elena burst out. “I’m so sorry.”
“It’s not your fault, Ellie.” He placed Daisy down gently. He smoothed her hair from her face. He reverently wiped the clotting blood from her nose. “What did the note say?”
Mary held it out to him but couldn’t read it aloud herself.
The note was old. Had writing on both sides. One side said, The answer is in your blood. Beneath it, was a fresh message from Daisy. This is me catching everyone. This is me leading from the heart.
“What does that mean?” he asked, voice raw.
Mary swallowed, but it was Liza who answered as she entered the room.
“In the lab when we were children, Daisy and I used to play a game.” Her voice was as raw as Axel felt. She looked over her sister’s limp body with sad eyes. “She used to chase me and force me to cuddle her. I loved it. Once I climbed the table and slipped, but she was there to catch me. She said, ‘I’ll always be here to catch you.’” Liza scowled at her sister with glistening eyes. “You stupid girl. I told you it was our turn to catch you.”
Liza’s jaw hardened, her bottom lip trembled, and she left. Thundering footsteps announced the arrival of more of her siblings. They crowded into the small room, one by one.
Parker’s immense body was the first. From the satin pants, wild hair, and naked torso, he’d just woken up. Intelligent eyes swept the room, catching on Ellie in the corner, Daisy on the bed, and the paper in Axel’s hand.
“She used her blood to save your sister,” Parker said, nodding as he put two and two together. “When Max was poisoned, she left that note for Sloan. The answer is in your blood, meaning, as Sloan’s mate, the regenerative power in her blood could transfer to him. This healing gift degrades if anyone else tries to use it… but… perhaps with a sibling with almost identical DNA, it still works. Daisy figured it out. She must have come in here and set up the transfusion line herself. It’s a triage kit. The donor needs to be higher than the recipient. Was she on the bed, or—”
“She was on the floor when I got here,” Axel said.
“That makes sense that she used her gift then. She didn’t have the energy to stay standing, so she used her gift to push the blood into Elena. She did it until... Fuck.” Parker scrubbed his face, shaking his head. “We need her. She shouldn’t have done that!”
“If I can take her blood, then she can take mine,” Axel declared.
“Won’t work,” Parker said. “Not in the way you hope, anyway.”
Elena’s bottom lip wobbled and she pushed past everyone to run out of the room.
“I’ll get her,” Mary offered.
“This is your fault.” Parker pointed at his mother with a dark scowl. “If you hadn’t told her she had to lead with her heart, then this wouldn’t have happened.”
“The heart is how we win!” Mary shouted back.
“You know,” Parker fired back. “If you had a problem with my leadership skills, you could have just told me. You didn’t need to go putting ideas into a fragile woman’s head.”
Mary shook her head distraught. “It wasn’t supposed to end like this for her. I saw her there in the end!”
“You should have told us about your vision,” Parker accused. “Maybe if you weren’t so secretive, this wouldn’t have happened.”
Tempers flared. Arguments ensued. And Axel was slowly losing his mind. He’d woken up this morning thinking one of the two people he loved was dying, and, although that person had changed, the fact still remained.
He was losing one.
