Page 66 of Kingdom of Death and Hope

“Give you some of my blood.”

CHAPTER 23

“Give me some of your blood?” I repeat his words.

He nods.

“Are we even the same blood type?” I ask.

He nods again.

“How do you know? Please respond with words.” I sigh.

He chuckles and pushes a piece of hair behind my ear. “My little impatient, Sweets,” he mumbles as he looks at me. “What am I going to do with you?”

“Tell me how you know and stop stalling.” I narrow my eyes on him.

He lifts his hands in the air. “Okay. I’ll tell you.”

We stare at each other and I patiently wait for him to start talking.

“Kieran,” I say, sighing. “Please just tell me before I pass out or need to go back home.”

“I know we are the same blood type because mates can do that with each other, especially if one of them is Fae. Our blood is different than yours. Allow me to give you some of my blood so you aren’t dizzy and extremely weak from the blood loss,” he says.

I open and close my mouth several times as I stare at him.

“We can do what?” I ask, cocking my head to the side.

“We can give each other blood. Though it will do nothing to me if you give me some of your blood, but if I were to give you some of mine, then it can help tremendously,” he explains.

“Will it have any other effects on me?” I ask.

Will I turn into a Fae slowly from this? Will I grow wings and have no idea until the curse is broken? Will I even be under the curse since I wouldn’t be a pure blood Fae.

“How do Fae react to half-blood Fae?” I blurt out before I can stop myself.

Kieran blinks several times. “Wh-what?”

“Nothing.” I shake my head. “Will me getting your blood have any other effects on me?”

“We are not done with this conversation.” His eyes narrow on me. “It is not going to turn you into a Fae if that is what you are wondering.”

“Then what will it do?” I ask, growing frustrated with him not answering my questions.

Is he purposefully doing this to me?

“The sooner you give me the answers in more detail, the sooner we may actually do this,” I say quietly and look away from him. “Or else I may leave before you can give me blood and I don’t know if I will have the strength to come back here for a while.”

I don’t like threatening him with that, but it’s also true. It took Henry and I forever to get to the forest with how weak and in pain I am.

“Before the curse it helped heighten people’s senses, and sometimes their healing was more enhanced. But it varied on people and how high ranking the Fae was,” Kieran explains. “But there weren’t many instances of it happening before the curse was placed since we had other ways of saving people, better ways. But with the curse still here, we don’t know if you will have any side effects or not. You may not feel anything at all, but it will help you with the blood loss that you have faced.”

“But—”

“If you do have some of the enhanced hearing, vision, and other symptoms, it’s not going to last your whole life. It will wear off at some point when your own blood absorbs mine,” he explains. “And if you do, then you don’t tell anyone about it, so you don’t become a target again. Understand?”

I nod. “How is this going to work?”