Fashionably Hotter Than Hell: Book Six, The Hot Damned Series by Robyn Peterman Page B

Trolls aren't intelligent enough to summon Wraiths. She knows I can send them back to Hell so she came at sundown."
     
    "Samuel I get, but why does she want you?" Ethan asked as he scanned the monitors again and studied a map of the grounds.
     
    "Of course she wants Samuel because he's a True Immortal. From me? She wants my blood—all of it," Raquel stated pragmatically. "She can only summon Wraiths. She would need to drain me to take my power so that she could banish them."
     
    "Juliet is so fucked up… and so fucking dead," Astrid muttered as she handed Samuel to Martha and Jane. "Take him to the Panic Room and lock the door. No swearing. You open it for no one except me or Ethan. Take the Baby Demons too. They'll kill anything you can't. Do not under any circumstances let Sammy nap. He can't go walking in anyone's dreams right now—too fucking dangerous. If we don't come back to you by morning, have the Baby Demons summon my Uncle Satan. He'll know what to do."
     
    Both Ethan and Astrid went to their son and hugged him tightly. My throat knotted with anger that they had to leave him.
     
    "He's a Dream Walker?" Raquel asked, shocked. "Impossible."
     
    "Not impossible," Astrid said wearily. "He's a full-on, out of control, magical nightmare."
     
    "Yay me!" Samuel yelled as he pumped his little fists in the air.
     
    "Yep baby, yay you," Astrid said as she hugged and kissed him again. "You be a good boy and I'll get you a present when this clusterhump is over. Okay?"
     
    "Another baboon for Blobbityflonk to play with?" he asked with wide eyes and a grin.
     
    "Ummm… sure," Astrid mumbled.
     
    Ethan's gasp of shock made me smile despite the impending shit show we were about to walk into. I caught Raquel's eyes and she giggled. For a moment I pretended what had passed between us hadn't happened, but she turned away quickly and reality came roaring back.
     
    "If we're going to do this we need to go now. My Princess has limited time," Jean Paul said.
     
    "Until what?" I inquired coldly. "Until she has to go and destroy a few more lives elsewhere?"
     
    "Stop," Ethan commanded harshly. "Leave the personal out. No room for distraction. If we all come out of this alive, then we will have a sit down. Am I understood?"
     
    "Yes," I said respectfully. He was correct. Loss of focus would be deadly.
     
    "The Trolls aren't moving," Astrid said as she studied the monitor. "Why are they all just standing on the perimeter?"
     
    "Because they're inherently cowards," Venus said as she stepped forward and took Astrid's hand in hers. "They will wait for the Wraiths to weaken us and then attack."
     
    "She's correct," Raquel said in a brisk, business-like tone. "Each time a Wraith goes through you it will drain some of your power. Everyone needs to keep moving constantly. It's difficult for them to attack a moving target."
     
    "I'll communicate that to the generals," Venus said as she raced from the room.
     
    Ethan closed his eyes and telepathically sent a directive that went to every Vampyre in the compound as he also spoke his thoughts aloud.
     
    "We will go out in three groups. We will exit the compound from all sides since we are surrounded. We will enter the battle in units separated by five-minute intervals. It's best we don't show all our troops at once. The second group will cloak themselves and try to get behind the Trolls so we can take them from both sides. The Wraiths are clustered to the north. Raquel, you will take the exit through the sunroom. Heathcliff and Jean Paul will go with you along with Astrid and me. Raquel will have to stand still to banish them, so make sure we are all moving targets around her to distract them," Ethan instructed.
     
    "God damn it, we're sending her out there to die," I ground out through clenched teeth as I held on to my sanity by a thread.
     
    "We may all be walking out there to die," Ethan stated calmly. "Raquel is our only chance of eliminating the Wraiths. I don't know about