Chapter 172.

Zade's lips pulled in a grin and he rolled up the sleeve of his shirt. "You all might want to look away for this," he said humbly and reached out his arm.  The inked snake started moving, the tail slithered under his skin and the head slowly rose with its split tongue flickering as it fell on the bed.  "What in the...." one of the healers said and staggered back, hitting the table.  The snake moved across the bloodstained bed and up on Hazel's stomach. It slithered toward her cut--up stomach and I drew a breath that I held in my lungs when it went into her and disappeared under her flesh. You could hear the sound of the snake slithering around in her but there was no gushing of blood like I thought it'd be. Her skin moved where the snake was slithering around. It looked like when the babies were moving around in her but I knew that I wasn't a child-- it was a fucking snake. The doctor stepped closer and looked down, her brows slowly furrowed and she heaved a breath.  "It's biting aroun