Chapter 455

• “She’s coming around.”
• I hear Sylvana’s voice above me and feel something cold and damp pressing on my forehead. Jake’s face comes into focus, leaning over me, etched with concern. His normally playful expression is now dark and foreboding, and his green eyes are almost black. Sylvana appears beside him and removes the damp thing on my head, replacing it with another colder one.
• “Hey,” Jake breathes as I flutter my lashes open. “You scared me, Bambina.” His voice is husky and shaky, his hands gripping both of mine tightly, and I can feel the tension radiating from him.