Page 237 of The Cruelest Undead
When Rinnon glanced over at Death, he’d stopped digging.
“No!” he said. “Put her back!”
Alex grabbed her wrist, and using all of his strength, he pulled her from her grave, and into his body.
“Mate,” he whispered, holding her. “Please don’t do this to me, Kiera. Please!” he begged, tears slipping down his cheeks.
Death openedThe Book of the Damnedwhen it appeared in front of him.
The pages flipped.
When they stopped, Jacques saw her name.
He didn’t have to say a word.
Alex wailed, his whole body going tense with that rage as his mate had been taken.
“I’m sorry,” Death said. “She was randomly reaped. We’ve messed with time, necromancing, and now, she’s been put into the book. Everything has to balance.”
Kiera laid limp against her mate.
She was going gray.
“Jacques, please!” Jolie said, tears filling her eyes. “You can’t have her. She’s our family. She’s Alex’s mate. She’s marked.”
“My love, I don’t control it. If the name appears it’s beyond me. I can’t undo it. I can’t unbalance it.”
“Take me instead,” Alex whispered as he cradled her against his body.
“I’m sorry. We unraveled fate, and I’d have to undo everything.”
“We offered Mambo back,” Rinnon said. “And her son. That has to count as something.”
Death sighed.
“Rinnon, you know I can’t undo her death. I’d have to undo everything.”
Flynn pulled Rinnon back down, and he appeared.
“Undo it,” he said. “Take my parents back.”
They all gasped.
Jolie looked over at her mate.
“Flynn.”
He closed his eyes.
“I’ll give them back for Kiera’s life. I’ll make that sacrifice so that she can come back. Take them. They shouldn’t be here.”
Alex sobbed as he held his dead mate.
“Flynn, your parents?” Jacques asked, his eyes going green so he could talk his mate out of this. “Both of them?”
He was honest.
“I mourned them, and I understand that they shouldn’t be here. Why should I get them back at the cost of Alex’s mate? How is that fair?”
