Page 222 of The Cruelest Undead

Clearly.

The only good part about all of this was that Flynn wouldn’t have to take Rinnon into Club Noir.

That makes me sad. I wanted to find…

He must have felt his wife in his mind.

Some really cool dance tunes.

Flynn was amused, but somehow, he kept from laughing out loud.

Mambo did her thing, wrapping up the spell, so that she could go back to her son.

As they stood there, Kiera blinked, and her eyes went black as coals as Aiobeheann was warning her of the Voodoo practitioner’s intent.

She tried to warn them.

“She’s about to…,” she began, but didn’t get to finish what she was saying. There was a power surge in the area, and it knocked her back, into a tree, and out cold.

Death and Flynn were barely able to stay on their feet as Mambo turned, and began chanting. She was focusing all her magick on the two men.

It looked as if this would be the betrayal Jacques saw coming.

Shit.

It was clear she didn’t believe that they were going to let her stay alive for a while because she was trying to escape them.

Yeah, and in any way possible.

Well, that was a bad idea. You didn’t tangle with Rinnon’s vessel, or Death.

As she kept chanting, Death wailed in pain, as he began sinking into the ground. Flynn did what he could, releasing Rinnon before he became the target.

Hold on, Jacques!Flynn shouted into his mind.

There was the shaking out of feathers, and just as Rinnon was about get to Mambo, he began sinking too.

Shit!

This was a powerful spell.

As they were waist deep, and Kiera was unconscious, that’s when it happened.

There was a hiss, the sound of fury and feathers, and Jolie appeared with The God Stone glowing around her neck.

It was pulsing.

“Release my mates!” she ordered, making her sword appear, as she stalked the still chanting Mambo.

“They will kill me, and I want to stay. I want to stay for my son!”

It was obvious that Mambo wasn’t thinking clearly. You couldn’t stop the inevitable, and the old Mambo would know that.

This version…

She was off.

Jolie morphed, her eyes going the deepest of swirling black and her mother of pearl wings coming out.

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