I want you to do more than that, Vee...I want you to promise me you'll protect him. If anything happens to me.
[She lowers her gaze, drawing a shaky sigh. One of the disturbing things about being in another coma now is Duke: he slipped into one, and then he was gone. The idea that she could have left Tig, when he needs her most...
Reaching for Venus's hand again, her expression is haunted, pleading.]
If something happens to me...if I go out again and I get taken away, you need to protect him for me. Stay with him...lie, if my pack will help you. Just save him if I can't. Don't let losing me do to him what losing Dawn did.
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[She lowers her gaze, drawing a shaky sigh. One of the disturbing things about being in another coma now is Duke: he slipped into one, and then he was gone. The idea that she could have left Tig, when he needs her most...
Reaching for Venus's hand again, her expression is haunted, pleading.]
If something happens to me...if I go out again and I get taken away, you need to protect him for me. Stay with him...lie, if my pack will help you. Just save him if I can't. Don't let losing me do to him what losing Dawn did.