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on earth.” Morris smiled. “He was just the first. Jamal will take more, and there’s nothing you can do about it. Either give her what she wants, or die like Thorn did.”
    Before the man could blink, Kayden had shifted into his panther form and ripped one of Morris’s arms off. His powerful jaws bit clean through skin, muscle, and bone, jerking until nothing was left except Morris screaming in pain. Spitting the arm out, Kayden leaned into Morris’s face and growled, then shifted back and grabbed him around the neck. “You don’t even get to say his name.”
    “Please help me, please!” Morris screamed, but not one person moved. He had betrayed his own kind, and now he was helping the witch and the dragon.
    Maggie had to look away. Her body needed blood, and Morris’ blood was pouring out of the stump where his arm used to be. Her fangs descended as she forced herself to walk away from everyone.
    She hadn’t suffered from bloodlust since she had first turned, but then she usually had a steady supply. Judd moved to her side as she sucked in deep breaths. “What’s wrong?”
    “I need blood,” Maggie whispered. “And it’s everywhere.”
    Her body started shaking as the fresh scent permeated the area. She didn’t have to see him to know that he was about to die if they didn’t stop the bleeding and get him some help.
    “He’s dying,” Maggie told him.
    “He deserved what he got,” Judd answered.
    “Yes he did, but if you need more information out of him, he’s fading fast and you’ll never get the answers you need. I don’t know if you’ll have enough time to get him more blood before he bleeds out.” Maggie’s body ached as she inhaled the scent. Control. Control was what she needed, but it had been too long since she last had blood, and now…
    “Shit.” Judd walked off and told the group what she’d said.
    “Can you heal him, Maggie? We need more information out of him.” Me-Len rushed over.
    “She needs blood. She can’t heal him without it,” Judd answered.
    Maggie glanced up at Judd. “There is a way, but we’ll have to keep him chained up with silver for as long as he lives.”
    “No, Maggie. No!” Judd barked. “It’s too dangerous.”
    Her eyes widened. “It won’t hurt me, but he won’t enjoy the pain of the bite. Then comes the transition, and that will be painful too. But once he changes he will be strong—very strong, Judd. Stronger then you and the others, for a while. That’s why you’ll need the chains. Don’t feed him unless he gives you information. He’ll tell you everything he knows if that’s the only way he’ll get blood. He won’t be able to help it.”
    “No, Maggie. He’s a piece of crap. He doesn’t deserve to live,” Judd argued.
    Maggie reached up and touched his face. “We don’t have a choice, Judd. I can hear his heart slowing to the point that he’s about to take his last breath. We need that information. I won’t do it unless you say it’s okay. Tell me what to do.”
    A look of shock covered Judd’s face. He never expected her to say that. Maggie looked over at Morris, whose heart was about to stop, and then back at Judd.
    “Do it,” Judd said.
    Maggie needed what blood Morris had left. In a blink of an eye, she was on the ground behind him. She picked his head up and sank her fangs into his neck like a snake.
    “I think she’s too late,” Brody said as they watched her. Judd walked over and bent down behind her. He wrapped his hands around her, giving her strength as she sucked the last of Morris’s blood out of his body. She knew what was coming. The venom sprinted through his body, changing him as it went. Maggie let Morris go and leaned back against her mate.
    Her stomach was in knots, knowing that once they killed him, she’d feel it. The pain would be unbearable, and she might even die. She couldn’t tell Judd that, though, or he wouldn’t have allowed her to do it. They needed Morris alive. He had valuable