Her cheeks had hollowed. The muscles straining beneath his hands softened as her strength failed, and her dangling legs ceased to kick.
Kaiden sucked savagely, wrenching more strength out of her. Her attempted cry escaped as a wet, breathless rasp, and she folded against him with her head trapped in his grip.
He pulled his teeth out of her neck.
Blood ran over his lips as he lowered her to the concrete, keeping her captured arm behind her back. Her knees buckled the instant her shoes touched down, and he followed her fall into a crouch.
She braced an elbow to lift her face from the ground, but it gave out beneath her. Mizuno lay there shuddering, unable to push herself up.
"Caly, can you hold her?"
"Of course, Darling."
Calypso knelt beside the ruined vampire and secured her wrists. Bastet kept her sunlight trained on Mizuno while Kaiden rose, his torn hand already whole again.
