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sorely wished he had the power to save her, but all he had was destructive powers. He wanted Nexus dead for all this. His rage inched closer. He clenched his fists, shattering the oxygen mask in his grip.
    “Skitt, get Aerigo out of the room.”
    “On it.”
    Aerigo felt a hand try to guide him by his upper arm. He stayed put. He couldn’t leave. He had to find a way to stop Rox from dying. Maybe if he took Jenna’s place, removed the face mask, and breathed passionate life in Roxie, she would live. Half of him wanted to, but the other half of him couldn’t forget that this wasn’t some fairytale where love conquered all, even death. A second hand wrapped around his biceps and pulled harder, yet his arm barely moved.
    “What the hell? I can’t move him.” Skitt touched a hand to the device in his ear. “Capera, I need orderlies in ER 102.”
    Soon, a second pair of hands grabbed his other arm, and together they pulled him off balance. Aerigo caught himself and braced against their efforts.
    “Wow, he’s strong,” Skitt said. “Donai, I think he’s got some powers that make him really strong.”
    “Hurry up and get him out of this room!” Donai snapped over the flat line tone. He commenced a third round of CPR.
    The instant Donai fell silent, the wail of the flat line hit Aerigo’s ears like a thunderclap. He flinched and his eyes stung with tears. The flat line’s wail sounded like Sandra crying out his name, her voice stuck on the “o.” Rox had been clinically dead for almost a minute now. Things couldn’t end this way. He wouldn’t allow it.
    He felt the energy that had filled him when he’d struggled to world hop to Kismet. It arose within him again and he braced himself to fend it off. This was like what happened in Drio. He couldn’t let the power out. Not here. There was nothing but doctors and patients to kill, innocent people helpless against his wrath.
    Giving up on CPR and getting off the gurney, Donai grabbed a floating medical tray and set the AED on it. He cut up Roxie’s bra and tank top, and peeled them aside to reveal breasts that looked sunburnt and bloated with rigor mortis. Aerigo wanted to cover them back up. They looked horrible. Donai gelled the pads and switched it on. “Clear!” He pressed the electrodes to Roxie’s chest and shocked her. Her entire body jolted, then flopped back into place. One hand slid off the gurney. The EKG beeped out two heartbeats before flat lining again.
    Aerigo swallowed. The way her torso jolted into the air, the lifeless flop, and then getting teased with hearing two heartbeats drew his wrath to just below the surface as tears rolled down his cheeks. This felt just like when Rahnjar had told him that the Balvadiers were attacking. He was ready to let himself snap, let out a scream, and then raze everything in sight. But this time he couldn’t forget how mortified he’d felt that night in Drio. Rox was just as dead as Sandra, and that other power was doing its best to push him to snap. He stayed put, eyes aglow and tears flowing.
    “Clear!” Donai shocked Rox again.
    Jenna returned with two more women wearing scrubs, and together the four of them (including Skitt) tried to push him down into the wheelchair they’d positioned behind him. Aerigo resisted the urge to pick up the wheelchair and throw it at the nearest wall, willing himself to stand still.
    The EKG beeped a handful of times before flat lining a third time.
    ‘Release your Mana, the first half of your power.’
    Mana. So the power had a name.
    Aerigo closed his eyes and bowed his head, catching the scream in his throat. The power pushed at his mental barriers, and he found himself slipping. He was so tired of fighting it. Part of him wanted to just give in and let the power have its way, but he didn’t want to go through all that again. However, the dead Aigis’s whispering broke his concentration and he found himself reaching for his Mana power.
    The explosive release sent all