Page 235 of The Cruelest Undead

Then, she backed up into the trees, leaving Mathew to stand there.

Rinnon went down, but he didn’t stay down. He moved toward his mate to protect her.

I have this! Don’t kill them!she said.Jacques! Call them to death! Make them sleep!

He waved his arm, taking his creatures deep into that slumber so they couldn’t be influenced by Marie’s spell.

Kiera was standing beside him.

“She’s working on something,” she said, glancing up at Death.

“I’ll get him.”

Moving toward Mathew, Death wasn’t amused.

“What are you thinking?” he asked.

He wasn’t asking.

It was his own magic.

“I have to kill Jolie’s child. Then, I’m going to kill her!” Mathew said, not able to be quiet.

As Jacques took a step closer, they heard a female scream, but it wasn’t Jolie. She was standing with her family, making sure the sleeping vampyres stayed asleep.

It was Kiera.

Standing behind her was Marie, and she had her bony arms wrapped around her.

Jolie focused on Seth, Cerise, and Logan.

“Get inside and make sure no one else comes through the doorway. We’ll come get you.”

Cerise nodded.

“Vanth! Go with them,” she ordered.

They did as she asked, knowing Jolie wouldn’t send them there if it wasn’t dangerous.

As his mate screamed, Alex panicked.

As his mate was being pulled down, he couldn’t get to her. He tried to fight his way through that energy, but it wouldn’t let him through.

Because she had to help him, as more vampyres came out of the trees, she went to her brother.

Rinnon began killing vampyres with Wrath as he waited for Death to handle Mathew.

Marie pulled her deeper.

Kiera began sinking into the ground, the dead woman chanting words that were doing what they needed to do.

Incapacitate their strongest weapon.

An ancient witch.

Fate must know that Kiera has a piece of Aiobeheann in her!Jacques warned, as he moved toward Mathew and The Cross.

Only, there were vampyres there, and he was having to step over their bodies as he put them to death.

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