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“Hold on,” he said. “The doctor is on his way.”
Once again, time bent and distorted the way it always did when death approached.
Each breath I drew into my lungs was a painful gasp. The other times when death felt close, it never really felt real. I wasn’t injured then. I was merely sailing over the edge of a cliff in a minivan or over the railing of an engine bay. I was alive and otherwise fit and healthy.
But now, I was seriously injured.
This time, it felt very real.
“I… I’m…” I managed to say.
Dyrel shook his head.
“Save your strength,” he said. “You’re going to be okay.”
His eyes swam with tears. I could see the concern etched on his face.
I wasn’t afraid. Whatever was going to happen would happen.
“I… I’m glad you came,” I said. “I wanted to see you one last time before… before…”
Tears streamed from the corners of his eyes. He snorted through a nose thick with sadness.
“Don’t talk like that,” he said. “You’re going to be okay.”
But we both knew I wasn’t.
He took my hand in his but I could hardly feel it.
I wanted to reach up and touch his face, to feel him one last time, but I didn’t have the power.
I was so close to the end, and yet, I wasn’t full of fear, but love.
Complete and utter love for this Titan male beside me now.
My Titan.
The doorbell rang.
Dyrel was up in an instant. He bolted out of the room and came back a moment later with a doctor in tow.
“What happened?” the doctor said upon seeing me.
He opened his bag and came out with a scanning device.
“She was on-board the passenger ship when the Changelings attacked,” Dyrel said. “She fell a long way when I caught her. She’s got a broken leg and something’s wrong with her ribs.”
The doctor finished scanning me. He reached into his bag and took out a syringe. He filled it with transparent liquid from a tiny bottle.
“What species is she?” he said.
“Human, from planet Earth,” Dyrel said.
“I want to administer a shot of adrenaline. If she were a Titan, I wouldn’t hesitate, but I don’t know how her body will react to it. It might make things better or it might make things ten times worse. You have to decide what you want to do. Now.”
“Is there anything else you can do?” Dyrel said.
“No. In her current state, if the adrenaline doesn’t work, nothing will.”
