Chapter 73

Aldric’s POV

Before any of the vampires around me can get any ideas, I break Asmodeus’s neck. For a long time, no one moves. Everyone’s staring at the dead man in disbelief. Within minutes, I flipped their world upside down and ended a war we thought would last centuries. All of us are unsure what to do next, including me.

The only person that's not deeply affected by Asmodeus’s death is Simone. She barely knew him, she didn’t know what life was like before the vampires came. She doesn’t fully understand the gravity of the thing I had just done.

Herod and Darrick feel their father’s death most keenly. They hated him, but they are heartbroken at the same time.

After a while, the two originals come unstuck. Wordlessly, they pick their dead father up from the ground and disappear with him into the night sky. "Call a meeting of the families,” I say to Lazarus.

My brother nods and kicks off. One by one, the vampires start to come back to reality. “What do we do now?” Knut asks.

“Go ba