Chapter 208

Leila

“Seize them!” guards yelled as soon as they saw us.

“Mommy!” Sirena yelled, running toward me.

Addie stood in front of us, donning her fighting stance. “Stay behind me!”

But I grabbed Sirena and Jase and pulled them behind me. “Stay behind me and don’t look!”

Lance leaped at one guard and quickly ripped off his head as his body burst into flames. One of Raven’s guards ripped out the heart of another vampire, and orange, red, and yellow flames shot up from his corpse as he fell to the ground, along with his heart. Raven’s other guard ripped the head off the last vampire, holding it by the hair, and then dropped it onto the floor as it burst into flames, along with the body. Addie didn’t move from in front of us, standing as protector over the children and me the whole time.

“Where’s Selestra and Raif?” I yelled, holding the children behind me.

“They were here earlier, but they left,” Addie replied.

“Leila, stay here with the children!” Lance and Addie darted quickly out the door,