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I watched intently as the doctor checked Queens's heart rate again and I looked at him with concern. "Is she alright?"

"She's fine," he answered as he put his stethoscope back into his pocket.

"Then why isn't she waking up?" I asked as I took her hand into mine. Queen passed out shortly after we got her into a hospital bed and ever since she hasn't woken up.

"We're not positive on that sir," he answered. "But generally, when the body has gone through as much trauma as hers does, the mind can shut itself off. A sort of internal defense mechanism, if you will."

"I see," I said softly as I brought her hand to my lips.

"May I leave now?" The doctor said as his eyes moved to the gun in my hand. I had completely forgotten about it and looked back at him.

"You can leave when she's awake."

Queen and I practically emptied the hospital. It was locked down and nobody remained inside besides patients and a few doctors. We didn't want to risk anyone calling in a tip to the police station.

"I have a family," the man said.

"And you will go home to them," I said sincerely. I watched as he visibly relaxed and I took the opportunity to lift my gun. "If she wakes up," I added.

The man nodded quickly and looked at the nurses in the room. "Someone check her again, please." No one volunteered and I pointed the gun at a short woman sitting on the counter.

"You," I said as I titled my gun in Queen's direction. "Check her."

"There's no need," she said with a shrug as she checked her nails condescendingly.

"Why?" I asked in frustration.

"She's clearly part succubus," she said with a laugh. "You all are running around like chickens with your head cut off when she just needs to feed."

I wasn't aware that Queen was a succubus. I sensed a lot of underworld darkness but I never assumed that. "So I need a soul," I repeated.

"Yup," she said with a shrug.

"And you knew this the entire time?" I asked with a laugh. "That's impressive."

She gloated as if she were happy about the compliment and flipped her hair over her shoulder. "I knew as soon as I walked in. I'm a witch, we're pretty intuitive about these things."

"Well thank you for volunteering your soul," I said as I stood up.

"What?" She asked as her smile dropped.

"You heard me," I said as I stepped towards her. "Since you were the one that so kindly volunteered that information after all this time, I figure your soul should be the one."

"No!" She said as she shook her head. "I wouldn't have told you if I thought you would-"

I grabbed her hair and bit her neck as she screamed out. The nurses around me seemed terrified but they remained quiet for fear that I would go after them next. I removed my mouth from her neck and dragged her to Queen.

"Stop!" She yelled as she tried to hit me. Her arm moved to push against Queen and I tugged her back.

"Lay a hand on her and I'll make this one hundred times more painful than it needs to me," I threatened.

Tears streamed down her face as fear took over her body and I ignored it. There was only one person in here that I was worried about. I positioned her neck over Queen's mouth and watched as the blood fell onto her lips.

I didn't truly know if her soul would be accessible to Queen this way, but I had to try it. I smiled as I watched Queen wrap her arm around her and sink her teeth into her neck. The woman screamed...loudly if I might add, it was incredibly annoying but I ignored it for the time being.

The woman's body went limp in my arms and she dropped to the floor as Queen and I let go of her. "You were hungry, weren't you?" I asked as I looked at the now grey skeleton-like body lying on the floor.

"Stop," she pouted as she pushed my arm. My eyes flicked down to the blood remaining on her lip and I wiped it with the pad of my thumb. Her breath hitched at my touch and her eyes locked onto mine.

I licked the blood on my finger and looked back at her. "How are you feeling?"

Her eyes remained on the movement of my fingers until I snapped my fingers to get her attention. She blinked a couple of times and shook her head as her eyes moved back up to mine. "What did you say?"

I smiled at her and leaned towards her on the hospital bed until our lips were inches apart. If everything was okay I would've kissed her, but I didn't want to push her after everything just happened.

Her eyes fell to my lips again and I smiled. Her lips parted for mine and I wrapped my hand around the back of her neck and kissed her forehead. When I pulled away, I noticed her frown and I kissed her hand. "Soon, Princess."

There was a knock at the door and we all glanced at it. I made sure my gun was in view and pointed it in the doctor's direction. "Open it."

He quickly walked to it and a male nurse walked in. "The police are here," he said quickly. His eyes widened as he saw Queen and me, and he immediately covered his mouth.

The other nurses in the room groaned in annoyance and I rolled my eyes. Even I was upset that he was so stupid. "Tell me more," I said dryly.

"Umm," he said as he looked around. "They're all over the first floor, but they're coming up here."

"Okay," I said calmly.

Queen removed the needle from her arm with a wince and carefully hopped off of the bed. I took her into my arms once again and headed towards the door.

"Wait!" The doctor said from behind me. "You'll run into them if you go back downstairs."

I turned back to him baffled and raised my brows. I spent the past ten hours holding him at gunpoint and couldn't understand why he was so concerned. "I'll just have to run past them."

"You'll get caught," he said.

"Why do you care?" I asked.

"I care about our Queen," he said as he bowed slightly.

Queen smiled at him and he removed a chain of keys from his waistband. He shuffled through them until he found a specific one and passed it to me.

"As soon as you leave, to your left and then right, there is a locked stairwell. It leads down to the parking garage. You can't enter it from the outside so no police will be there."

I nodded and Queen thanked him as we opened the door to the room. "There they are!" Someone yelled. Gunshots began going off in the long corridor and I ran as quickly as I could. I groaned in pain as I felt a bullet hit my shoulder but I continued until I reached the stairwell.

I quickly opened the lock with the key, walked into the stairwell, and locked the door once again. I made eye contact with the officer on the other side of the small glass in the door and shot him a wink.

I began rushing down the steps as they tried to knock the door down and Queen held onto me tightly. I looked down to check on her occasionally and I was glad to see that she looked stronger than before.

After a few flights of stairs, I opened the door to the parking garage and looked around. I pursed my lips and looked around as I thought about what to do, and Queen cleared her throat.

"Set me down, please," she said.

"Why?"

"We're going to need to steal a car," she answered as if that were supposed to be obvious.

"You know how to do that?" I asked in surprise.

"Cain taught me," she shrugged.

I set her down onto the floor and she winced as her bare feet hit the floor. She wasted no time as she rushed to a random car and punched open a window with her fist.

"Damn," I said with a smirk. "I had a badass wife."

She reached her hand into the opened window and unlocked the door. "Stop it, I'm blushing," she said with a smile as she rolled her eyes.

She crouched down under the steering wheel and I watched the door to the garage. Hoped they hadn't burst through but it was only a matter of time. "How much longer?" I asked.

"Not long," she mumbled.

I moved my arm and winced in pain as I was reminded of the wound in my shoulder. It hurt but it would heal as soon as I managed to take out the bullet. That would be hard considering it was lodged in a place that I couldn't reach.

The car roared to life and Queen cheered as she stood up. I gave her a proud smile and she held up a fist. I looked at it before pounding it and she turned to walk to the passenger side.

I took notice of her exposed backside in the hospital gown and I laughed softly. "What?" She asked as she looked back at me.

"I like your underwear," I said.

Her eyes widened and she moved her gown to look down at it. "You let them put granny panties on me?!" She exclaimed.

"They were cute," I answered as I got into the car.

She groaned and closed her gown as she walked to the door. When she opened it, she got in and turned to me hesitantly. "Should we leave an apology note?"

"To the owner of the car?" I asked.

"Yeah," she said sadly.

"We held a hospital at gunpoint, killed a woman...but you want to apologize for stealing a person's car?" I asked.

She shrugged and I smiled at her. "I like you, Mrs. SinClaire."

She grinned and held her hands in front of her face. "Ew, stop it..."

I shook my head and tapped on the steering wheel. "Are you sure you want to come with me?" I asked. "My accounts are probably frozen, meaning I have no money. I have nowhere for us to go and we could both get hurt during this."

She smiled and shrugged. "I have money."

"We can't use our accounts or we'll be tracked."

"I know," she said. "I have money at a place of mine here in Juva. It's small but it's off the grid."

I pulled out of the parking space and nodded. "Then that's where we'll go."

"As for being sure about this," she started. "I've never been more sure about anything."

"I hope you mean that," I said as I left the garage and looked out at the freeway lined with police cars. There were helicopters above the hospital and I winced. "There's no turning back from here."

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Author's Note
Okay okay, I know they're on the run but like...I'm over here blushing like 🙄🥰

There's no turning back from this point hehe...
It's nice to see that Queen still has some support tho, I definitely thought that doctor was gonna double-cross em'😌
Lmk your thoughts ✨