Leaving me naked in the cold, bleeding from my fresh wounds, pulsing for a bond I created with Clarissa I’d never be able to fulfill.
Chapter 23
~ Clarissa
Iset Toshi down on the bed, and Penny tries to tend to his wounds, but I wave her off. My anger is off the charts. I can feel my veins rolling underneath my skin. I’m tired of th
e antics of these two. Of them constantly being at one another’s throats.
“What happened?” Penny asks. “The Cat finally kill the beast?”
“No,” I say. “But I’m tired of them fighting.”
“I don’t blame you. I think we’re all tired of it,” Hiro says.
“Why am I not healing?” Toshi asks.
“Sebastian probably laid into you with his saliva-soaked teeth.
It’ll take a while. You have to rest,” Penny says.
“Isn’t there anything to help?” Toshi asks.
“You don’t want to hurt, stop fighting,” I say.
“He’s the one that attacked first!”
“But you didn’t have to play into his hand!”
My nostrils flare, and I can feel my eyes flipping between colors. I am done with the two of them. They are supposed to be helping me, and we’re getting nowhere. Sebastian can’t stop fighting and keep his protectiveness at bay when it’s not needed, and Toshi can’t stop his constant outpouring of feelings. Yes, I bonded with Toshi. Yes, I told him to take me away so I could forget. But that didn’t mean Toshi had to fight Sebastian, and that didn’t mean Sebastian had to wound Toshi.
“Clarissa?”
Hiro’s voice penetrates my thoughts as my gaze turns to him.
“Where’s Sebastian?”
“I don’t know, and I don’t care. I’m on a mission, and I’m not going to let you guys slaughter one another over me,” I say.
“We aren’t—”
I shoot Toshi a look, and he immediately backs down.
“I need to get him wrapped up. He’s going to bleed out,” Penny says.
“Fine,” I say. “Do what you need to do.”
She starts scurrying around and gathering items as Toshi lays back on the bed. He’s injured badly, but I’m too focused. Their fighting is what causes me stress. Their fighting is what got Kyle hurt when he was still alive.
Kyle.
The breath leaves my lungs as tears rise in my eyes.
Toshi threw Sebastian against him. Like a rag doll. I know Toshi has the strength to overcome Sebastian when he wants to. I look over at Penny tending to his wounds as the blood in my veins settles down.
He held himself back during the fight.
“We have to go to the Council,” Hiro says.