Chapter 140
“What? That’s lethal!” Sawyer exclaimed, and my stomach sank.
Damn Grace. How did I get us into this much trouble when all I was trying to do was help?
“There was an antidote, but I think she took it. But her bag spilled everywhere as she disappeared, so maybe it’s still here?” Leon said, but he didn’t serand hopeful.
If she was that mad at me that she left, she would have made sure of all the things she left, the antidote wouldn’t have been one of them.
“Do you remember what it looks like?” Sawyer asked as he listened to Grace’s heart. “Or did she tell you what was in it?”
“Both,” Leon answered, and I couldn’t help but deepen my frown. I knew she had told us what was in the poison, but I didn’t remember anything being said about the antidote. “It was mint extract, gulli seed sap, and maven.”
“Maven?” Sawyer muttered under his breath. “Find that syringe or go find me those things, we don’t have a lot of time.”
Leon immediately began to scour the cabin for the missing antidote, and I pressed a kiss to Grace’s forehead.
“Go help him.” Sawyer demanded angrily as he began to dig through his bag and pulling random things out.
I hadn’t even noticed, but Leon hadn’t been kidding when he said her bag had spilled everywhere. All over the cabin there were shattered jars of unknown substances. Glass was everywhere. Leon had grabbed a trash bag and begun to pick things up one at a time, and I did the same on the other side of the room. God, how could this have gotten so out of hand?
“Fuck!” Sawyer growled from the other side of the room. I have mint extract and gulli seed sap, but I don’t have maven!”
I could hear Grace’s shallow breaths from across the room. We were running out of time.
“Where do I get it?” I asked, abandoning my search for a vial that we probably didn’t even have. “I’ll go, but you have to tell me where.”
“No need!” Leon called out, immediately getting up off the floor and striding over toward Sawyer. “She had maven in her bag.”
He placed the small broken container on the table next to Sawyer. The jar was dented, surprisingly not broken, and the lid was chipped, but all in all it was
fine.
“Can you work with this?” I asked, well, more like begged. I wasn’t kidding I couldn’t live without her.
“I don’t know the dosing or the proportions of anything.” Sawyer answered. “But I’ll try my best.”
Sawyer grabbed a book and immediately began doing some calculations as I sat back down next to Grace.
“I’m sorry, Gracie,” I whispered. “I’m so fucking sorry.”
“Okay, I think I got it!” Sawyer exclaimed after what felt like an eternity, and he immediately began filling his syringe with what he needed.
“Wait,” Leon stopped him right when he was about to give it.
Sawyer and I both looked up at him in surprise.
“What?” Sawyer asked, his hand hovering just above Grace’s arm.
“The witch said to wait till her heart dropped to 25 beats per minute.”
“Seriously?” Sawyer growled “She’s dying! We don’t even know if this will work! And you want me to wait???”
“What’s her heart rate at?” I asked, unable to keep my voice from shaking.
Chapter 140
“38.” Sawyer answered tersely.
“Then waiting for it to drop 7 more beats, isn’t going to be long.” Leon argued. “The witch said it had to be 25 heats a minute exactly. She said the timing was important. We don’t even know if it will work, but we have to at least try to follow instructions or else it will have all been for nothing*
I looked at Leon and nodded slowly. It probably wasn’t going to take long for her heartrate to drop. And we were so close, we might as well try to do it right.”
Sawyer put the shot down and grabbed his stethoscope again with a glare, and mumbled, “If she dies, this is not on me.”
1 knew that. I knew that because if she died, it was on me. I would have killed her. I would have killed us all.
“It’s 25 now,” Sawyer said after the longest 5 minutes of my life.
He grabbed the shot and injected it into her arm, and I felt my own pulse rush. This had to work. In my anger, I hadn’t even thought to ask the witch how long it would take her to recover if it worked, I just hoped it wouldn’t be long because now all we could do was wait….
A pop above us all caught our attention, and a little piece of paper fell slowly down toward us. I grabbed the parchment, confused at where it had come from, but I understood as soon as I opened it and read the 5 neatly written words.
Congratulations. You figured it out.
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Sara Lili is a daring romance writer who turns icy landscapes into scenes of fiery passion. She loves crafting hot love stories while embracing the chill of Iceland’s breathtaking cold.
