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Laylah stuant vampire cross the room to peer at the water "Laylah …" Kata cried out

With a terrifying laugh, Marika used the toe of her Manolo to stir the water, dissolving the vision of Kata "Toodles, dear sister"

There was the scrape of footsteps and Laylah turned to watch the e stroll to join the vaut clenched with an age-old fury

The bastard had caged her like an aniiving a damn if the spell that protected the entrance would kill her

Thankfully her stark, raving fear overcaeance on the man who’d caused her suchfro on the gargoyle at her side

"A rat?" Levet sputtered "Sacrebleu I shall turn you into …"

Laylah hastily grabbed a delicate wing to keep her coravel "Levet, no"

Sergei laughed with cruel amusement "Did you have him shrunken or did he coei, it’s not polite toforward "I have waited so very long for this farih to pray she would one day find her relatives? Yeah That was a ain "Stay away fro out to run a criht have been affectionate if she hadn’t used enough force to draw blood

"Surely you’re not afraid of your auntie?"

An icy dread clutched at her sto at the unei reached out to lightly touch his companion’s shoulder

"Careful, Marika, we don’t yet know the extent of her powers"

The dark eyes narrowed, the slender nose curling with a fastidious disgust

"True She has the look of her gypsy mother, but her blood stinks of Jinn"

Laylah wiped away the stinky Jinn blood that dripped down her cheek "You knew h the cavern "No one is foolish enough to actually become acquainted with a Jinn, but we did have a brief encounter before Sergei locked hinate her He was …" She deliberately paused, a re her lips "Delectable"

Outrage overwhele ithout conscience oran evil bitch

"You trapped your own sister in a rooed "Who can say what happened behind closed doors? It was," she paused, glancing toward the sei?"

"Don’t ask, don’t tell"

"In any event, you were born nine months later" She waved her slender hand "That’s all that matters"

She took an impulsive step forward "You are …"

Icy power lashed through the air, striking Laylah like a sledgehammer to the chest

"Careful, Laylah, I soet the better ofwith a lust for pain "Neither of us wants et I still have need of you"

Damn Laylah rubbed her cracked rib That hurt

"What do you want of ained command of her composure "The child, of course"

"To sacrifice for the Dark Lord?"

The vaenuinely startled by the blunt question

She glanced toward the obediently silent Sergei "Obviously brains do not run in the family A pity" She returned her attention to Laylah "Why would I destroythe world?"

Levet snorted "Your auntlunatic, but at least she is a pinch Did the silly creature have a death wish?

"Levet"

"Lunatic?" Marika gave a throaty chuckle "Geniuses are alwaysthe center of attention, Marika strolled across the cavern, her hand running over the expensive own "For centuries the Dark Lord’s disciples have sought to return their deity to the world Altars have run red with the blood of sacrifices and rown rich beyond their wildest fantasies as demons seek their services to part the veils betorlds" She halted to toss her pet ei?"

The ed "Fools"

"More than fools," Marika countered "They offer their blood and ic and od ill reward their loyalty with a brutal death"

Laylah griuy on an epic scale Thankfully, the scary ass Lord of Deo And while hiswith hishi zero

So what the hell was this crazy vae up to?