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I tensed and my fangs punched downward.
Get a fucking grip.
Gabriel lifted his eyebrows and backed up a step. “No offense intended, but touching the newly marked mate of a warrior vampire is pretty much tantamount to a death sentence. Ask me again in a couple months and I’ll be happy to shake your hand once Ajax has himself under control.”
Grace looked up at me like I’d lost my mind, and I could only offer her an apologetic smile.
“It’s a thing.” I shrugged.
“And how exactly is your doctor supposed to examine me if he can’t touch me?” She arched a brow. “Maybe you should step out.”
A growl erupted from my throat.
“Nope.” Gabriel put a set of scans up on a lighted board. “Being alone with a newly marked mate? Even worse. Sorry, but that male of yours is going to be a territorial asshole for the better part of a few months.”
“I won’t be alive in a few months.” She said it with a finality that hit me like a punch to the gut. “And how did you get my scans?”
“Medical records are digital and networks are easy to hack when you have Ransom living with you.” Gabriel locked eyes with me, then looked back to the scans. “I can see you have an aggressive glioblastoma. From the scans it looks like it shrank a bit in the past month, though, which isn’t just odd…it’s miraculous. What did you do?”
“Nothing.” She shrugged.
“Drank my blood,” I answered at the same time.
Gabriel paused, then turned slowly to face us. “You…exchanged?”
I nodded. “Twice. I know the rules.” Three times would transition or kill her.
He looked at the scans side-by-side. “A full transfusion? Or—”
“Full,” I answered.
Gabriel’s shoulders dipped. “The small bit of good it did probably bought her a week, but nothing more.” He looked at Grace. “You’ve refused treatment from the human doctors?”
She nodded. “I watched my mother spend her last months in complete and utter misery. I want to still bemeat the end of my own life. Besides,” she smiled up at me, her hair sliding back over her shoulders. “The hallucinations are too good to give up.”
Gabriel cocked his head at me.
I sighed, and rubbed my forehead. “She thinks this is all a hallucination.”
“Duh.” Grace pointed to the room around us. “I’m surrounded by vampires, somehow attached to this sex god of a man, and then there’s this.” She tugged down the neckline of the shirt Lyric had loaned her, displaying her mating mark. “Tattoos just don’t magically appear because you’re having the best orgasms of your life.”
Gabriel looked at me in pure confusion.
“I know.” I could only shrug. “I’ve tried telling her. And I get how aggressive the tumor is, I really do, but here’s the thing. She’s a quarter vampire according to Cassandra.”
“I’m guessing it would be my father’s side. They seemed like the disappearing kind, if you know what I mean.” Grace joked.
She fuckingjokedbecause she still thought this was all in her head.
“I can turn her, right?” I asked Gabriel. “She should be completely healed in the transition.”
“Turn me into what?” Grace shook her head at me.
“One of us. A vampire.” I cupped her cheek, looking at her with every ounce of hope in my body. “We found each other at this time in our lives for this purpose, Grace. I know it. I can save you. We can be together for every night of our lives.”
She sighed and leaned into my palm, then turned toward Gabriel. “See? It’s the best hallucination ever. Not only is he constantly telling me I’m his, but now he thinks he can save me.”
Gabriel looked at the scans, then toward me, and finally Grace. “I don’t know how to tell you this, Grace.”
