Ella wasn’t allowing herself to be tugged closer. She stood at the side her bed with her arms across her chest. “My friend couldn’t heal everything. Had I have let her use dark magic you would be as good as new but at the cost of someone else taking your pain. I took a guess you’d be angry if I gave your pain to someone else.

I offered myself but as a vampire it wouldn’t work.”

Ella took a deep breath and sat at the base of the bed. “Do you have any idea what you put me through?

You’re a big girl Lara, you can make your own choices and I know you can take care of yourself but heading into a fight in a place where I can’t save you if you get into trouble?” Ella was furious but it came out of a place she didn’t know she had. She was angry because she cared and that scared her as much as letting Lara in.

“God Lara, you stepped into a ring to defend Jack and got your ass handed to you!”