Chapter 99

"MOVE IT NOW!" Paul shouted, and it was so loud that Sylvia slammed her hands over her ears.

The devil moved through the water, right up into Paul's face. "I don't take orders from something that doesn't even have a name."

My eyes burning from looking so hard at the water, I stirred my leg faster and harder until...there. A mess of hair and little stakes floated about two feet to my left. I leaned toward it and snatched it out of the water.

Static filled the room, loud and intense, and it sprang up goose bumps all over my body. The dark, tense edge in the room shifted toward me, and I knew without looking that Paul's attention had diverted from the devil.

To me.

My vampires started shouting again.

I fumbled the witch's ladder between my wet fingers, my staked hand screaming with pain every time I moved it. The knots. I just needed to undo the fifty trillion knots with one hand.