"No..." he whispered, barely managing to open his eyes to fix me with a panicked look. "No hospital."
"What do you mean? You're bleeding!" My eyes flared with wild confusion and panic as Vasilis's hold on my wrist tightened and he shook his head.
"No, it's fine. I'll be okay. I just need..." the rest of his words trailed off into a wheeze as he coughed up dark red blood.
My heart seized in my chest, my panic intensifying as I yanked my hand out of his hold and darted away from the bed, to get my phone.
"I'm calling an ambulance! You're not dying on me, Vasilis!" I picked my phone off the floor and unlocked it immediately, but before I could even open up the dial pad, it was pulled from my grasp. I turned around to meet Vasilis's gaunt, inhuman gaze.
How the hell had he gotten here so fast...
"I'm fine, Jade."
His Tartarean eyes, subtly enhanced by the dim, soft orange night lights in my room, bored into mine.
