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“Perhaps Anaisa can help us with that. The descendants need to be moved to the Haitian village, and we will need to guard it. While human, they are safer there than with us.”
Leah’s eyes widened as she arched off the bed. “The rooms going dark. Am I going blind?”
Riley wrapped her hand, giving it a gentle squeeze. “You’re seeing the shadows. This is our world, the way we travel the pathways.”
Leah relaxed into the bed. “My insides feel like someone’s taking a blowtorch to them.”
“That sounds about right. By the end of my transition, I prayed for death. I wish there was something I could do to help you,” Riley said.
“You’re doing it. The sound of your voice is soothing. It reminds me of my sister.” She groaned. “If I don’t make it, Riley. Promise me you’ll protect my sister. She’s all my parents have left.”
Riley leaned towards Leah. “I promise, but your strong. You will make it through this.”
The slight hum included Ferguson’s arrival. He coalesced so quickly; it was like a magician performing a trick. He moved to the side of the bed, looking over Leah. “When did this happen?”
Riley glanced up at him, but her heart stuttered when she saw his eyes. There was no mistaking what Ferguson believed would happen. “An hour ago, but the scratch was so small, we...”
“The size of the wound is irrelevant. Once the venom hits a human’s blood, it’s over.”
Riley clutched the bedspread with one hand. “Deruthel told her it was too late. He knew he’d scratched her. He did it on purpose.”
Ferguson’s gaze remained locked on Leah’s twitching form. “Yes.”
Riley stood, moving around the bed to Ferguson’s side. “You look worried, and I get the impression that’s rare.”
“I don’t want you to get your hopes up.”
“Leah has priestess blood. The same as me and Dannika.”
Ferguson shook his head. “It’s not the same as you and your sister, and you weren’t infected by a demon general.”
Riley glanced at Leah. “His venom is stronger?”
Ferguson glanced at Colton. “You already know that. If an alpha shadow cannot heal with Deruthel’s blood in his veins, then you have to understand the consequences of this transition.”
“What are you saying?”
“The demon in her is too strong,” Ferguson said.
“You can tell?”
“Yes.”
Riley pursed her lips. “How?”
Ferguson didn’t get the chance to answer as Leah screamed. Her body arched unnaturally as bones broke in her back before her body exploded in black smoke.
CHAPTER15
Riley backed away as Ferguson moved in front of her. Leah’s shadow warrior growled as it swiped at them with extended claws. It wasn’t the warrior that had Reilly’s heart squeezing in her chest. Leah’s red eyes tracked the predators in the room, looking for a weakness. There was no missing her intent. Those eyes held death.
She groaned before her form rippled. Her legs thinned as her upper body became thicker. Her face, more angular and her cheekbones more distinct.
“What is that? What’s happening to her?” Riley asked.
Ferguson kept his arm in front of Riley, barring her from getting closer to Leah. “She is fighting it.”
“Fighting what?” Riley remembered the feeling as the shadows consumed her tissues. Her bones. But she didn’t remember fighting the force invading her body, only becoming one with it.
