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“After the experiment, my body went through a series of adaptations to survive. In turn, I’m your personal antidote. It’s why my serpents aren’t venomous. Her venom needs to work its way out of your system, and my blood is the only thing that will help you survive until that happens.”
“Then how did your mother and Sila survive the venom?”
“My father planned his experiments meticulously. He’d hunted the Black Sea Serpent before and gave its eggs to a healer. They developed the antidote, and he held a reserve—which is now burned.”
Why does it taste so good?
“I can’t answer for that.” He dared smirk.
She scowled. “When will I need more?”
“Hopefully you won’t. I fed you three times while you slept. This was the first time you opened your eyes in almosttwentyhours.”
Disbelief settled over her. She eyed his forearms for a shred of proof. There was more than that. One wrist was covered in bandages and the other was freshly ravaged.
Thessa muttered an apology she didn’t mean. This washis fault.
Soren winced. “Stop. I’m going to make it right.”
“If it weren’t for that fanged beast, I would’ve gotten out of that cave. I thought I was dead.”
He exhaled slowly.
“As much as I want to kill her, she’s theonlyreason you made it out of that cave.”
She didn’t understand. “But you were the one to save me.”
“That’s not how it started.”
Thessa sat up a little taller. “Then you better start from the beginning.”
“Fine. You wanted space, remember?”
Thessa rolled her eyes at the memories of their argument. His lack of care for innocent lives had been her breaking point.
He shook his head. “If you want the truth, I was livid after you shouted, so I galloped Ares up the coast to cool off.”
You were brooding while I was drowning?
“I should’ve never left.”
“Well, you did. Then what happened?”
“Then I heard her,” he said. “First, the call was distress.”
“Echidna?”
He nodded. “When the signal shifted to fear, I knew something was wrong. By the time I got there, your body was bobbing on the surface of the water with Echidna weaving beneath you. I’ll never unsee it.”
Thessa was rubbing her temples in some desperate attempt to wake up from whatever nightmare she was having.
Soren continued, “I pulled you out from there.”
“Why would Echidna help me? She bit me.”
“She said your blood tasteddifferent.”
She scrunched her brows, still getting used to the idea that Soren had a personal relationship with a serpent.