Page 276 of The Cruelest Undead

Society

Ten Minutes Earlier

Than Death’s Realm

Time: Four Hours Remaining…Maybe

As they drove there, Seth was on the phone, talking to the ME about the woman who was found in the broken open crypt in the cemetery. From his face, Flynn knew that the man was just happy to be working.

They all were.

The second he hung up, he was dying to know.

“What did you find out?” he asked.

Seth clued him and his partner in.

“Well, the ME got an ID on the dead woman. Her name was Ophelia Williamson, like we told them, and get this…some cops went to that club to do interviews.”

“And?”

“They saw someone who resembles Mathew with her last. It’s safe to say that we can confirm his hunting ground.”

That was good to know.

“Guess what else?”

They weren’t sure.

That’s when he told them.

“She lived at the exact same address we’re heading to, Flynn. Mathew must have followed her.

He considered it, as Tommy drove them.

“He had to be watching the place. They are the second most powerful society in the city. He might have been biding his time to control them and send them at us.”

Yuck.

That would be messy in NOLA. It would start a war between what was left of the families if Jolie slaughtered them.

Mathew was setting up other ways to take them down if his initial plan failed.

“If he had the relic already, we’d be bombarded with dead. He must have suspected it was there, or he was looking for a way to gang up on us.”

Jolie agreed.

“He sniffed around, found some vampyres, and then…he took her after following her to the club. He’d want to know what she knew, and if my family was still in the same place.”

Flynn agreed.

“Well, then, we have to get in there.”

Tommy pointed.

“The house is back there. Are we sure this won’t be a bloodbath? I have my new shoes on.”

Rinnon wasn’t amused.

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