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I hugged her to me.

"Killian?"

Kenya's eyes were open.

Giving Lizzy a quick kiss, I set her down, sitting her on the bed as I bent over Kenya. "How do you feel?" I asked her.

"Tired, but...good. Hungry." I didn't miss the way her eyes darted over to the male before focusing on me.

"We need to check her again." Judy made her way back over to Kenya and laid her hand on her shoulder. Closing her eyes, she became completely still.

Again, I felt the fingers of her magic crawling along my skin, not as heavy this time.

After a few seconds, she opened her eyes. "I don't see anything," she told Kenya. "It's gone."

I helped Kenya sit up. Her eyes filled with tears as she told the high priestess, "Thank you."

"Thank him," she told her with a nod at Alex. "He's the one who healed you, not me."

"But you let him do it, and I'll forever be grateful."

"I'm glad I could help," Alex told her.

I watched as his eyes traveled over her face before he quickly stepped back and looked up at me. "Can I go wash my hands?"

"Bathroom is down the hall," I told him. Humans were so squeamish about blood.

Judy pointed her finger at me. "Not a word of this to anyone outside of those of us who were here. I don't know what this was, or who cast it, but if the fact that we were here threatens any member of my family I will be coming after you, Killian Rice."

"I wouldn't do that," I told her.

"Make sure you don't," she told me. Looking around to see the others were all on their feet and well, she said, "All right. Let's get out of here."

"I'll see you out," I said.

"I'll stay here with Kenya," Lizzy told me.

When I returned after washing my own hands in the kitchen sink, Lizzy was alone in the bedroom and I heard the shower running. "Is she okay in there by herself?" I asked her.

"I think so." She smiled. "Her strength seems to be coming back by leaps and bounds."

I ran my eyes over her, relieved to see her own appeared to be coming back as well. "I'll never be able to thank you enough," I told her.

She frowned. "I didn't do anything. Not really."

"They would never have come here if it wasn't for you," I told her. And it was the truth. She no longer owed me for her life. Or for Wiggles life. She'd given me Kenya back. But more than that, she'd made me alive again.

Her debt to me was paid in full.

Chapter 25

Lizzy

One month later.

I woke up as the shutters rose over the windows. With a moan of contentment, I rolled over, searching for Killian. Instead, I found a small piece of paper on the bed.

Sitting up, I switched on the lamp. There was a local address written in Killian's neat handwriting. I turned it over to see if something was written on the back, but there was only the address.