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those few words, Caitlin felt as if a knife had been plunged into her heart.
     
     

 
     
     
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    Samantha watched in horror as the cauldron tilted toward Sam’s face. She struggled for all she was worth, but there was nothing she could do to break free of her captors. She was helpless. She’d just have to stand there and watch it destroy the person she had come to love.
    As the liquid doused Sam, Samantha braced herself, expecting to hear the horrible shrieks so often accompanied by a dousing of Ioric acid.
    But as Sam became completely lost in the waterfall of acid, there was, strangely, not a single sound.
    Had it killed him so quickly, so completely, that he didn’t even have a chance to scream? As the liquid stopped, Sam came into view.
    And Samantha was truly shocked. As was every other vampire in the room.
    He was fine. He blinked and looked around, clearly not in pain. He even looked a bit defiant.
    It was incredible. Samantha had never seen anything like it—never seen anyone, human or vampire, immune to the liquid. That is, anyone except for one person. Now she remembered. Caitlin. His sister. She had been immune, too. What could that mean? Was it because they were genetically linked? She thought back to his watch, to the inscription. The Rose and the Thorn . Was the dynasty split between them? Could it be that she wasn’t The One?
    But that he was?
    Caitlin was a few years older than Sam, and perhaps she’d showed signs of coming-of-age sooner than he. Perhaps, if they had waited a few years, Sam would also have shown signs of morphing into a half-breed.
    Whatever the reason, he was clearly immune. Which made him very, very powerful. And very dangerous to her coven.
    Samantha looked around, and in the room of several hundred vampires, there was not a sound. They all just stared, in shock.
    Sam looked pissed. He reached up, dragging his chains, and wiped the water from his face. He tugged at the chains, but could not get free.
    “Can someone get me out of this fucking thing!?” he screamed.
    And then, it happened.
    Suddenly, there was a crash at the door.
    Samantha spun around, and watched as the huge set of double doors came crashing down.
    She couldn’t believe it. There stood Kyle, half his face disfigured, Sergei at his side, and hundreds of mercenary vampires behind him.
    And that wasn’t all. Kyle had it. Was holding it high. The Sword.
    Kyle let out a horrific scream and charged madly, headlong, into the room. His supporters followed close behind, shrieking, on a rampage. And the room broke into mayhem.
    It was vampire against vampire, as Kyle and his men viciously attacked every being in sight. But the Blacktide Coven had been at war for thousands of years, and it was not about to give in easily. Rexius’ vampires fought back with equal determination.
    It was an outright battle, hand to hand, vampire to vampire. Neither was giving an inch.
    But Kyle himself made incredible headway. He held the Sword high, with both hands, and swung it widely in both directions. Wherever he went, vampires fell. Arms, legs, heads…. Kyle was a one-man army. He cut a path right through the crowd of thousands of vampires, murdering each one.
    Samantha was shocked. In her thousands of years, she had never seen a vampire murdered,  actually, ultimately, killed. She had never pictured a vampire as frail. This Sword was awe-inspiring. And very, very deadly.
    Samantha didn’t wait any longer. As a vampire charged her, screaming, his bloody, sharpened teeth aimed right for her face, she quickly ducked, let him fly over her, and then took off at a sprint.
    She charged across the room, heading right for Sam.
    Just in time. A rogue vampire had the same idea, and was going right for the chained, petrified boy. The vampire leapt right for Sam, teeth extended, aiming for his throat. He was like a lamb chained in a room full of lions.
    Samantha reached him just in time. She leapt, colliding with the