C9 NINE

To Be Most Happy

ROSE

If it were now to die,

'Twere now to be most happy, for I fear

— William Shakespeare, Othello

DEREK HEALED. I held his hand as his body stitched itself back together with the magic from his Druid roots and Shifter genes.

I couldn't stay mad at him, not with this. Not with what we'd just seen. As soon as he could walk on his own, we left the infirmary and went outside