Chapter 13
Rafael was uneasy. There was no reason to be. Everything was going well. Yet he was still uneasy. He had returned to Echtberg safely with the child, and was now securely locked away in the deep cellars under his fortified manor house. Preparations were underway for the girl’s sacrifice, a ritual that would greatly increase his powers.
The Cursed One, the man known as Daniel, had walked into the trap in the keep. Many of Rafael’s blood children had died when the trap was sprung, far more than he had expected, but many remained alive. That could only mean that the Cursed One was dead. If not Rafael’s blood children would be continuing to attack, and to die. They would have no choice. Rafael had ordered it and those directly tied to his power could never resist his orde
