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“Holy hell,” Ben muttered as he examined the wounds. “When did you get stabbed?” Orion looked back at Kira. “At the ridge estate.” It had to have been his hand-to-hand encounter when he had come to her rescue at the truck. Now she remembered one man pulled a knife on him in the scuffle. The way Orion had just torn through all of them without pause, she did not realize he had taken a hit. But then, she was much more preoccupied with the carnage being wrought in her defense. The ease with which he mutilated and killed in moments... It was terrifying at the time, really, and not something she would soon forget. Likewise, she could never forget how readily he employed such violence on her behalf. On everyone’s behalf. Hana was right, she realized. Orion was the one who would do what was right, no matter what. And he bore the cost of it with his flesh. They could see it with their own eyes now. She looked down at her own arms, the short and vertical strokes of the cuts like red pen corrections in her skin. She flexed her fingers and weighed the heat of her injuries against the biting cold that was spreading beneath her ribs.
December 26, 2024 at 10:30 AM