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And just like that, a million thoughts came slamming into my head. Maybe…maybe I had a
guardian angel after all…
Dimitri immediately noticed the shift in my feelings. "What's wrong?”
Reaching out with my mind, I tried to expand the bond and shake off the lingering effects of the
pain medication. Some more of Lissa's feelings came through to me. Anxious. Upset.
"Where's Lissa? Was she here?”
"I don't know where she is. She wouldn't leave your side while I brought you in. She stayed
right next the bed, right up until the doctor came in. You calmed down when she sat next to
you.”
I closed my eyes and felt like I might faint. I had calmed down when Lissa sat next to me
because she'd taken the pain away. She'd healed me….
Just as she had the night of the accident.
It all made sense now. I shouldn't have survived. Everyone had said so. Who knew what kind of
injuries I'd actually suffered? Internal bleeding. Broken bones. It didn't matter because Lissa
had fixed it, just like she'd fixed everything else. That was why she'd been leaning over me
when I woke up.
It was also probably why she'd passed out when they took her to the hospital. She'd been
exhausted for days afterward. And that was when her depression had begun. It had seemed like
a normal reaction after losing her family, but now I wondered if there was more to it, if healing
me had played a role.
Opening my mind again, I reached out to her, needing to find her. If she'd healed me, there was
no telling what shape she could be in now. Her moods and magic were linked, and this had
been a pretty intense show of magic.
The drug was almost gone from my system, and like that, I snapped into her. It was almost easy
now. A tidal wave of emotions hit me, worse than when her nightmares engulfed me. I'd never
felt such intensity from her before.