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with great force, sending him sailing ten feet into the air and then crashing hard to the ground. Raven stood there, teeth clenched, this time picking him up and slamming his body into the closest tree and letting him fall to the ground again where he lay unmoving.
                  For a moment she lost herself, staring at the beautiful man in awe with his black hair and blacker eyes. He was magnificent. Her eyes trailed down to his rock hard arms and then she remembered the women wrapped around those arms just yesterday. As his eyes finally met hers, her anger returned.
                  “Sophia!” He rushed to her side and began helping her to her feet. “Are you all right?” he asked, pulling her to him.
                  She let him take her in his arms, snuggling her face against his chest as she breathed in his amazing scent. But, remembering her previous irritation with him, she jerked away from his touch. “I’m fine.” She knew she should forgive him, but her pride was damaged. And she was nothing if not stubborn.
                  Eli, Levi, and Charity burst onto the scene.
                  “Rose! Are you all right?” Eli asked, taking his little sister in his arms. She clung to him and cried. He ushered her immediately away.
                                                 * * * * * *
    Charity watched as Hector came up from behind them and grabbed the little twerp, Kyle, and carried him away without a word. They would have Raven remove Kyle’s memories of Rose later.
                  Raven stood there motionless and numb—right before he collapsed.
                  “Levi!” Charity called.
                  Levi collected Raven’s limp body in his arms and carried him all the way back to the Drake House.

     
     
     
     
     
     
                                  Chapter Seven
     
     
    Levi laid Raven on his bed and Charity covered him with the blanket. “We need to get someone to feed him so he can begin to heal,” Charity said to Levi. “Where is Doc?”
                  “He’s on his way. I’ll call Irena and get her to handle getting someone to feed him.”
                  “There’s no time. I’ll do it.” She sat on the bed and began rolling up her sleeve.
                  “I don’t think so!” Levi snapped, pulling her from the bed. “We’ll get someone else!”
                  “Fine!” she snapped back, “But we better hurry. He looks bad.”
                  Raven’s head turned as his eyes opened slightly. “No feeding,” he mumbled.
                  “What?” Charity asked. “You have to feed in order to heal.”
                  “No feeding,” he said again, this time weaker.
                  “Tell me why,” she demanded, leaning in closer.
                  His voice was just a whisper, but with her new keen hearing, thanks to her growing babies, she managed to hear his feeble word. “Rose.”
                  Charity stood tall—her crystal blue eyes boiling with rage.
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    Charity burst into Rose’s bedroom without so much as a knock. “What have you done?!” she demanded, her face red with restrained anger.
                  “What?” Rose asked in confusion, her head still a blur from her ordeal in the forest.
                  “Do you even understand what you’ve done? Raven could die!”
                  “What?” She stood in alarm. “Raven—die? But how?”
                  “The sun hurts vampires—zaps their strength, sending pain shooting through their limbs. Direct sunlight, in particular, can burn them; even dry them to the bone. Raven