Page 114 of The Cruelest Undead

He’d seen zombies.

Well, at least he didn’t have his liver snacked on by some sirens.

There was that.

“And you guys are serious?” Logan asked. “I mean, come on. This can’t be real.”

To prove it, Flynn held out his hand. He made Pandora’s Box appear, and when it was in the room, the power and magick was unmistakable.

It vibrated around them.

Yes, let’s show every Tom, Dick, and Harry where I keep the family secrets.

Listen. He’s taking this fairly well. Wait until we have to tell him the woman that he’s staring at is a vampyre and going to be his mate for the rest of his life. He thinks she’s human.

Rinnon paused.

I can appreciate his lusty stare. Now, can you make our woman talk to us? That would be a trick I could get behind.

Yeah, no, but I know how to fix that. Give me some time.

When he opened the box, there was a light, and then more energy. It left goosebumps across everyone’s flesh.

As quickly as he made it appear, Flynn made the trinket box disappear. It was back safe where it belonged locked deep in their lair.

“Someone is playing with Rinnon’s magick,” Flynn admitted. “We have to work on this together and stop it from getting worse.”

From his peripheral, Flynn saw Vanth was moving around the detective.

The human one.

“Vanth,” he warned.

She sighed.

“Father, he smells good. Can I eat him?”

With his sense of preservation kicking in, the man backed up, and his eyes went huge. It was probably when he saw all of Vanth’s teeth in her mouth.

Without hesitating, Cerise put her body in front of his, and somehow, managed to keep her fangs in her mouth where the detective didn’t see them.

Oh, but they were there. Her instinct to protect her mate proved that Flynn hadn’t been wrong.

Yep.

They had more issues on the horizon, and they were ones that were worse than Vanth wanting to snack on a cop.

“Vanth, people teeth, please. Put the dangerous ones away.”

She made some noncommittal sound out of exasperation. It was clear she was hungry, and when a female was hangry…

He snapped and made a squirming sack of douchebagery appear.

“Eat him. He’s a pedophile. We don’t eat the police or good people, Vanth. Don’t kill the humans.”

Well, Vanth was all over that like demon on snack.

When the bedroom door opened, in came his wife, and Lucian. Jolie was doing everything in her power to ignore him. She had to feel the energy of Pandora’s Box, and needed to see what was going on.

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