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He looked from me to the spider, then to Azriel, and rose--and just about fell flat on his face again I’d forgotten about the rapping his feet and lower legs

"Fucking hell, it was trying to eat er and hysteria

"But it didn’t!" I cut in harshly "Just hop down the daer" I paused "We’ll explain everything later"

He gave ainly fashion down the hall and opened the front door Two seconds later, Hunter was striding toward us There was little emotion on her face, but her pupils had expanded to the point where there was little green left and the sheer depth of hunger that radiated off her stoleThis was Hunter as I’d hoped I’d never see her--eager for her revenge, ravenous for the blood of her enelanced back down the hall The shifter was still standing by the open door, but his expression was slack

"His expression is as e with anticipation "Do you think I desire a witness to what I am about to do?"

I sed heavily "We’re witnesses"

She turned her black gaze on me, and I took an involuntary step back

"Yes," sheto fear froht in the spotlight, only this particular one shone with a dark, dark light and prorow tedious, Hunter" Azriel’s voice held little inflection and no doubt for good reason It wouldn’t take ued spider, and the energy radiating off her suddenly spiked Only it wasn’t aiue, shrink, until what stood before us was once again a woman

A woman who looked suddenly scared

Just for a fraction of a second, I almost felt sorry for her Then I remembered what she was and what she’d done The death Hunter was about to give her was surely quicker than the one she’d given any of her victims

"Lower the force of your flames and allow me access," Hunter said

Chills raced acrosshuman behind those words

Lower As, Azriel said

I echoed his words tofor both

Yes, it was I bit nore the fact that my head felt like it was about to explode

Aus The spider-spirit didn’toff Hunter had a whole lot to do with that

"For the cri four, you are sentenced to death," Hunter said, stepping so close to the Jorõgumo that she was practically in her face "But for the cri one of those four, you are sentenced to death by me"

And with that, she attacked

But she didn’t just sink her teeth into the Jorõgumo’s neck and drink her blood She rendered her apart and consu

Even her soul

Chapter 11

It was sheer survival h every instinct in et away fro one of its own kind

Hunter iven what I itnessing, it was impossible to think of her as just another vampire--however powerful and old she was

Normal vampires didn’t consume flesh and bone and brain matter Normal vampires didn’t drink souls

How I didn’t lose the entire contents of my stomach, I’ll never know

Unbidden, Harry Stanford’s words cao uess the question that needed answering nohat sort of monster had she become?