||KAEL||I stood in the silence and couldn’t move.There was only the dim light, the blood on her lip, and my wolf tearing into me.“You let her bleed for your pride.” he was enraged.I pushed him down, crossed to the dresser, pulled the first-aid kit from the top drawer, and sat on the edge of the mattress.Mira tensed immediately. “Don’t. Get your hands off me.” she tried to back away from me.I opened the antiseptic.“I don’t need your pity.”I said nothing, dipped the cotton swab, and looked up. “Hold still.”“I will bite you.”Something pulled at the corner of my mouth before I could stop it. “I know you can.”I tilted her chin up, more gently than I had any right to be. The antiseptic hit the split and she hissed, pulling back against the chains.“Careful,” she muttered.“That is careful.”I worked in silence, cleaning the blood away. I could feel her watching me, tracking the tension in my jaw, the fact that there was no cruelty in how I was touching her. It was simply care, un
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