Page 49 of Midlife Demigod Unexpected

We all looked around the room silently. We had ruined the spell our ancestors had made. The spell that bound us to a demigod’s sacrifice.

“That’s quite an achievement.” Jag smiled warmly as he pulled me close to him and nuzzled my neck.

“Yeah, it’s great,” I said. “The only problem is we still don’t have our friends back, have we accidentally signed their death warrant?”

Frank let out a loud guttural sound that enveloped the room.

“It’s time we go down and get them,” Branson said. “They’re in Toern’s crypt?”

“Yeah, but I don’t think all of us bursting in is going to solve the problem,” I said. “If we walk in the front door, she’s more likely just to kill them.”

“The biggest problem is that you’re not thinking like a demigod,” Matheus said.

I looked at him, my head tilted to the side.

“I’m a demigod,” I said. “However, I think, is thinking like a demigod.”

“Demigods want what they want, when they want it,” Matheus said. “I haven’t known many demigods, but I know the way they are reported to think. Styx is going to want everything for herself. She is not necessarily going to want to kill them, yet. She is going to want it to be the way she planned it. Styx is going to be focused on getting the sacrifice to work.”

“Why would she not want this sacrifice to work?” Branson agreed.

“So, her goal right now isn’t to kill the other four coven members,” Chloe nodded in agreement. “It’s to get the other two coven members back and sacrifice us all for the sake of her river and opening the portal.”

“Well, that isn’t happening,” I said. I might not have been a demigod for very long, but I was very aware I was a demigod now. Matheus was right about one thing; demigods liked to win. They liked to get their way and I wasn’t planning on changing any of that myself. It was me and Chloe against Styx. We were going to be fine. We were going to handle it. The reality was that we had all of the mates of the women in the coven with us. Together we would solve the problem and free the rest of the Coven.

My eyes met Chloe’s grimly across the altar. It didn’t matter what it took, we were going to have to succeed at this. No matter what.

A loud explosion rocked The Estate unexpectedly.

Chapter 35

“What the fuck was that?” Chloe asked, running into the kitchen to look at the back windows and down toward the cemetery.

“Holy fuck,” Antonio said at her side. He was already racing out the back door and starting to shift.

“What is going on?” I cried running up behind them.

“They breached the wards,” Chloe said.

“The zombies?” I asked, my heart racing.

“Yes,” Frank said, pointing down toward where the zombies were starting to spill out of the cemetery, down the hill. They were heading down toward the town.

“No!” I shouted. “We can’t let them get to town.”

“It’s exactly what Styx is trying to do,” Antonio spoke. “She knows you want to protect the town, so she’s sending the zombies to start to destroy it. If you go down and try to protect the townspeople, she will stop you. She will catch you. That’s what she’s expecting you to do.”

“We can’t let the townspeople get eaten by zombies,” I said.

“We’ll handle the zombies,” Branson countered.

“You guys go to get the coven,” Frank agreed. “You can trust us to stop the zombies.”

“There are too many of them, “I pointed out. “You won’t be able to stop them all. “

“We won’t be able to do anything unless you get the rest of the coven free from Styx,” Branson said. “We’re relying on you.”

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