CHAPTER 45

I sat in the dry ground, my legs crossed with a white robe covering my body as my head hung so low. The witches were in a circle around me, they were chanting with the voices so low and so gently like a siren’s song. The whole vampire race in the coterie was here, some standing with some sitting down, defeated just as I was. I had screamed and screamed with the king running so fast, capturing my convulsing body in his arms. He had shouted, screamed on what I had been doing out there but the pain had been too much for me to even say anything.

So many spells had been done with none working, blood just flowing through my legs with the life sucked from my baby. The witches had reached us soon after the king, joining in chants but nothing working. The relief came after the witch queen had arrived. She drew one spell with the pain taken away. Her tongue had been sharp with each bind of the spell, shouting and lashing so hard at me with not even husband at my res