Page 113 of The Cruelest Undead

“Au contraire,” he said. “If you are out of your garden for more than twenty-four hours, I can claim it as my own. You will be a second late getting back, and that makes it mine. My children will have a new playground.”

She screamed and raged because he was right. That was why Jacques couldn’t leave this realm for more than those twenty-four hours. If he did, she’d take it as her own, and with it, Aoibheann, his mother, and the rest of the souls.

To dismiss her, he simply waved his hand, and she slid to a corner in her cage, and the wall moved around her cocooning her in.

“See you in a day,” he said. “AFTERwe undo your mess, and I get another kingdom.”

And with that, Jacques got to work.

They didn’t have time to mess around.

The clock was ticking, and that sword was close to being found.

Unfortunately.

Chapter Seven

New Orleans

Harcourte Society

Regrouping Time

By the time they got the detective onto the same page as they were, and explained to him what they were, he was definitely freaking out. He kept staring at them like they were going to jump out and eat him.

They weren’t.

Well, Vanth was a whole other story, but she was mostly on a leash.

Sometimes.

It took a mild sedative in the form of a compulsion to not fear that to get the detective on their side.

Flynn knew they needed to get moving, and that meant not wasting any time.

It looked as if they were breaking into teams. There wasNOway he was bringing Jolie into the police station or letting her out in the cemetery.

Those options seemed really bad.

Only, Flynn wanted to check out the scene, and this was a conundrum.

“I can’t believe any of this,” Logan admitted. “Yesterday, everything was normal and today, I’ve just learned it was all a lie.”

Flynn knew how he felt.

Been there.

Done that.

He recalled the moment that he found out that Jolie was a vampyre, and it was something that changed his life.

He’d found his mate.

Everyone who crossed paths with them, if they were lucky enough to learn the truth, had to have this realization atsome point. The world was big, and there were a lot of things in it that needed to be put away.

“You’ll adjust,” Flynn said. “I was a cop, and had the same epiphany. The good news is, this is as bad as it gets.”

Yeah, and that was saying a lot.

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