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“But seriously. Have you ever seen spiders march in a line like that?”

“That would be a no.” Corwin squinted through the windshield at them. “I can’t tell what kind of spiders they are from here, but that giant one there is definitely a daddy long legs.” He cocked his head, “Though it doesn’t appear to have eight legs anymore. Daddy two legs.”

Jared groaned. “Maybe it’s not a spider then.”

“Oh, I’m pretty sure it’s a spider. Creepy spider. Yeah, I’m gonna be having nightmares about Creepy Two Legs over there.”

At that moment, a feminine shriek blasted through the air.

Jared and Corwin looked at each other, then leapt from the car and bolted toward the diner.

Halfway there, Jared’s brain caught up to his eyesight and he realized what he was seeing.

“Corwin,” he barked. “Are you looking at these spiders?” He crouched down and stared at the creatures as they marched by.

They were all sizes and species, from what he could tell.

And Daddy Two Legs wasn’t the only spider missing some legs and other body parts.

Every single spider marching by appeared to be in some stage of decomposition.

“How in the hell are they even walking?” Corwin asked as they watched a spider lumber by on legs that were all twisted and tangled together.

“Personally, I’m just happy they don’t seem too interested in consuming our brains.”

Corwin snickered. “Zombie spiders. Now I’ve seen everything.”

Moments later, they opened the door to the diner and walked into chaos.

Humans, wolvesandvampires were standing on chairs and tables all around the room.

The only ones who didn’t seem bothered by the spiders were the women seated at the center table and the other wolf pack.

How embarrassing!

Jared’s wolves were all standing on tables while the other pack and the witches were sitting around, eating pie and chatting amongst themselves, completely unperturbed.

“Hey, Starlight,” Corwin called to the waitress standing on the lunch counter. “What’s up with the new customers? I thought this place had a firm no-zombie-spiders policy.”

Starlight rolled her eyes at him. “Very funny. I don’t suppose you have a solution for this situation?”

“Burn down the building?” Corwin suggested.

At that moment, a vampire standing in the middle of Pippa’s table, leaned over and shouted in one of the other women’s faces, “Do something!”

That was when Pippa let out a huge sigh and slowly stretched to her feet.

She was still holding the black kitten, Jared noticed, which reminded him.

He’d left poor Chester in the car.

He was contemplating whether he should bring the cat into this chaos, when Pippa swept her arm out and flung fire from her fingertips.

The fire rained down on the spiders like tiny droplets of water, and the spiders, every single one of them, burst into flames, then crumbled to ash.

“Dude,” Corwin muttered. “Your mate’s a firestarter.”

CHAPTER4

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