Without caring who was in the room, I bit my wrist and held it out to her lips. "Here."

Without hesitating, she took it and drank it down.

Kalyssa rose from the couch and crossed the room to both Xander and Elias, wrapping her arms around them both. "Oh, thank God you're both alive."

They both kissed her, first Xander, and then Elias.

Rosa and Henry took it all in, but said nothing.

"Ladies and gentlemen," I began, addressing the room. "I'm holding ...