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"Is the baby" Eleanor’s voice trailed off

He nodded "The baby is like me The Pope and Council want the baby safe and under the protection of Sentinels with the hope that one day he will join their ranks as I have done" He gestured to Caroline "Masters like Caroline want the baby for themselves to et her hands on the baby and turn hi, Ephraim You will turn me or I will kill your family"

"Ephraim, why can’t you kill her and them before they hurt us?" Jill asked

"Because if he ainst me they’ll shoot you He can’t save all of you and he knows it," Caroline said sly

Jill bit her lip and nodded Chris held his gaze for a moment and nodded He slowly turned until he was propped up in Eleanor’s lap while his legs spread out in front of Joshua and Madison

If they were going to do so tooout Ephrai the left one caused hih it

Ephraim turned and punched a hole in the wall Everyone jue of the distraction and finished positioning hi hell!" He pulled his hand out and stalked towards Caroline "I’a to stalk iven you o"

"You’ll do it now?" she asked cautiously

He looked like he was thinking it over as he looked back at the set this the fk over with Are you going to want me to turn them into vamps?"

"Wait what does he mean by vamps? You promised ould be like him!" one of the men said

"You will of course," she purred She threw Ephrailare If he told them her plans she would kill theet this over with"

"Fine, now I know your blood will kill me so what do I have to do differently?"

"I have to feed from you first It will mix with my blood Then you can feed" He lied They had to feed at the same time and it wouldn’t work even if they did He’d already turned Madison His body would safely take her blood as a meal He could easily feed off vampires, but preferred huest her blood, slowly If they were doing a dual exchange her blood would shoot through his systeer

"If this doesn’t work kill them all," she told the roup

"Turn around," Ephraim said

"No, I want you to feed froued

"No, it will be easier for ue his hand shot out and yanked her to his sank into her neck His eyes darted from Madison to Chris Chris nodded As soon as it was time he prayed Chris wouldn’t hesitate

He pulled quickly on her neck, draining her The more blood she lost the quicker her death would be when she took his She winced and groaned in his arnored her and continued to feed After a few minutes when he knew her body was all but drained and his stomach was uncomfortably full he pulled back and offered his wrist "Take your fill" He had to"After this is done stay the hell away from me I don’t want to see you for the rest of eternity"