Page 22 of The Cruelest Undead

Seeing this, Death was going to have to clean this mess up, too, at some point because it was going to fall into his lap.

He’d bet on it.

Someone tried to reassure them, and he was really bad at it too.

It could be worse,Rinnon offered.

Could it be?

Really?

Did he actually believe that?

Death wasn’t so sure.

Rinnon, Jolie can’t go around raising the dead for the next week. That’s how long your spell is active. You know that the spell is sketchy as hell. Without the sword, she is a loosecannon. We need to find it now, so she doesn’t reanimate anyone else.

Jolie stared at her mate.

Did he just say what she thought he said?

Seriously?

Pardon me, Death? I’m a loose cannon? Do you want to choose this hill to die on? Today?

Jacques held out his hand.

Mon Amour, there can only be one necromancer, and the last one was…

Lilith,Rinnon offered.It’s her sword. Like I had Destruction, and the other horsemen had Wrath and their swords, she had hers. She made it small to carry with her always.

Then, he shared what he could remember.

Our woman carries the Nephilim who will be the namesake. That’s likely why she has the gift. I didn’t intentionally give it to her, Jacques. Maybe it’s the little one calling to her powers. Like with your children, they are already beginning to have some of their gifts.

He wasn’t wrong.

Only, this was bad.

The baby wasINSIDEJolie. If Fate was gunning for her, she’d die too.

Now, Jolie was curious.

So we have another antiquity out there that can do bad shit like this, and we have to find it too?

Jacques nodded.

QUICKLY.

When they heard something scurrying across the floor, Jolie knew what it was before she even saw it. There was only one sound that freaked her out.

It was spider legs on tile.

That was going to be six too many legs for her liking. Immediately, she jumped and landed on the island to get up and away from it.

The humans freaked out too.

In their defense, it was a big-ass spider.

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