Page 150 of Death Game: Supernatural Battle

So fucking close.

Kyros’s devastation was like a battering ram to the gut.

Mikael laughed with Trenit and Tynan.

I reached into my back pocket, dragging out the final deed that I really hadn’t wanted to pass over.

Their laughter trailed off.

“There’s one more,” I told the woman from Clan Leith.

In a flash, my wrist was gripped with iron strength.

Kyros pried the papers from my finger, unfolding it. He stared at the title and glanced back up at me.

Your estate, he said.

He didn’t like it.

My estate was worth eighteen and a half million dollars—ironically not the most expensive property I owned in the world. Certainly the most sentimental.

What use are walls if you’re not in them with me?I replied.

Kyros held the paper out of my reach.It’s your home.

Scowling, I crossed my arms.The conditions on it are different, if that makes you feel better.

He flicked to the second page, skimming the special conditions. There was a buy-back clause.

When Clan Sundulus wins, my estate will be gifted back to me, my heir, or my children,I said to him.

I could bring Sundulus back into the game with a tiny edge, but I couldn’t winIngeniumfor them. The battle could reign for a hundred years more, by which time I’d be dead.

Kyros had front row seats to my reasoning, and a growl rose in the back of his throat.

Placing a hand on his chest, I stretched up on tiptoes and pulled the contract from him. Then I scuttled back becausefuck, my libido was sick of talking.

On wobbling pins, I placed the contract in front of the woman. “This one too.”

King Julius would accept the special condition.

The ten vampires still cross-checked the new total. Kyros came up behind me as she stood.

“If King Julius of Clan Sundulus accepts the conditions of the final contract, then that puts Clan Fyrlia at a 0.15 percent deficit. The end cascade is not triggered.”

It took everything I had not to collapse in a heap.

The end cascade wasn’t triggered. Kyros wouldn’t be taken from me today. His family wouldn’t die.

Today.

Ingeniumwould continue, but that life was preferable to the grim alternative.By far.How could I be disappointed when this could have ended in so much death and heartbreak?

Not only had I undone the damage I caused, Sundulus now had an advantage. A small one, but an advantage nevertheless.

I hadn’t dared to dream things would work out this way.

“I accept Miss Le Spyre’s conditions,” King Julius said. “And I consider myself lucky indeed.”

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