Page 206 of The Cruelest Undead

Death came to a stop.

“Yes.”

In that moment, he knew what he needed.

Snapping his fingers, Kiera appeared, and beside her was her mate. In fact, they were kissing. As soon as they realized they weren’t alone, Alex hissed.

Then, he saw it was his family and managed to reel it in. Mates didn’t like to be disturbed when mating.

EVER.

“That is awkward,” he said. “Maybe next time, a little warning? If I’m dick out, and you all see it, I’m going to be cranky,” he said.

Kiera laughed.

“I told you it sucked when they popped you in without you knowing it was coming.”

Death apologized in his own way.

“I always look first.”

Yeah, that wasn’t better.

“What do you need?” Kiera asked. She’d just been popped back to the house, assuming she was no longer needed. That’s why she was about to give her sexy vampyre mate a snack.

Her.

Death pointed at Mambo.

“Our Voodoo priestess doesn’t have her memory, so she can’t do a scrying spell to find our artifact. We need a spell, and since you are our witch…”

Kiera sniffed.

“It smells like chicken blood and demon traps in here. Someone was paranoid.”

Rinnon sighed.

“Maybe next time we send the witch in first to see if she boils and then we go in? My Flynn suit is damaged. You know that I’m only fallible because of him,” he said, holding up a blistering arm.

Well, imagine my horror of being fallible because of you. I used to be able to walk through a demon trap. Now, I cook from the demon-y inside out.

He let that go.

“Can you help us get a spell?” Death asked.

Kiera moved toward the once-dead woman, and when she touched her, Mambo stepped away.

“She’s possessed!”

Yeah, well, tell them something they didn’t know.

She was carrying some of a dead vampyre witch with her. Aiobeheann was onboard, and so far, she was behaving.

For now.

That was likely because Death had control, but if Fate got out, and tried to destroy his realm, Aoibheann would be free, and so would a lot of other bad things.

“I think I can restore her memory, but I need a specific spell book that you won’t let me run amuck with,” she admitted.

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