"You feed from her and she feeds from you."
A feeling of dread shrank Wulf's stomach. "Feed how?"
Ash's swirling silver eyes met his and the look in them chilled Wulf to his soul. "You already know that answer. It's the first thought that went through your mind just now."
How he hated it when Acheron did that.
"Have you any idea how disgusting the thought of drinking blood is to me?"
Acheron shrugged. "It's really not so bad."
The words stunned Wulf. "Excuse me?"
Acheron didn't elaborate. "It's all up to you, Viking. Will you at least try it?"
What the Atlantean suggested was impossible. "She doesn't have fangs."
"She will if she needs them."
"Are you sure?"
Ash nodded. "It's really simple and yet it's really not. You drink from her neck and she drinks from yours."
The ancient Dark-Hunter was right. It sounded so simple at first. But could he and Cassandra really do that when everything they both believed in forbade it?
"Won't my blood kill her? I thought Dark-Hunter blood-"
"You're not a Dark-Hunter, Wulf. Not really. You never died. You have always been different from the others."
Wulf snorted in derision. "Yet again you tell me something that should have been made known to me years ago. Thanks, Ash."
"Things are always given to us when we need them."
"That's so not true," Wulf said.
"Actually it is. You just have to decide if you're strong enough, brave enough, to seize it and make it yours."
Ordinarily, Wulf would have had no doubt whatsoever about his strength or courage.
But this...
This required both of them.
And it required a lot of faith that Wulf wasn't sure he had anymore.
Cassandra sat there in stunned silence after Wulf had told her of the possible out.
"Are you sure it'll work?"
Wulf took a deep breath. "I don't know what I believe anymore, but if there's a chance, shouldn't we try it?"
"And you're sure this Acheron isn't trying to kill me too?"
Wulf offered her a small smile and refrained from laughing at the idea. "That is probably the only thing that I am certain about. I trust Ash, at least most of the time."
"Okay, then, let's do it."
Wulf cocked his brow. "You sure?"