Maggie Shayne - Twilight Series 13 by Prince Of Twilight

Author:Prince Of Twilight [Twilight, Prince Of]
Format: epub
Published: 2010-01-07T07:19:08+00:00

It had worked. Stormy knew that, because the vampires had used it to save the life of Willem Stone.

And they'd learned how to recreate the formula, so that he could live as long as any of them. But she

hadn't known the Athena group had been involved in any way with that case.

"Stiles is dead now, according to all reports," Rhiannon said. "So apparently his formula didn't work as

he'd hoped."

Melina nodded slowly, sensing, perhaps, that there was more to the story than what she was being told.

Stormy knew instinctively that Rhiannon would never reveal the secret of Willem Stone. And she thought

she knew why. The Sisterhood would likely see him as a breach of their precious supernatural order.

They might decide to do something about it.

"Why didn't your friends tell me, if they knew Brooke was trying to steal the formula? They must have

known that was a betrayal of everything our order stands for."

Rhiannon shrugged. "You'd have to ask them."

"Why didn't you tell me, Rhiannon?"

She shrugged. "Because I don't trust any of you any more than I trust Brooke," Rhiannon said. "Besides,

does it really matter at this point?"

"What else was in the files?" Stormy asked. "Anything about the ring or the scroll?" She told herself she

no longer cared, but she thought a new topic might break some of the tension mounting in the room.

Melina nodded, allowing herself to be distracted for the moment. "Brooke believed that when Elisabeta

returned to life, she would return with some means of gaining immortality. Speculated that she might

somehow imbue the host body with the Belladonna antigen that Brooke believed Elisabeta had

possessed during the course of her natural lifetime, enabling her to become a vampire."

"That wouldn't do Brooke any good, though," Stormy said.

"Brooke thought it would," Lupe said. "She was convinced Elisabeta could co-exist with another soul in

the same body. She was willing to share her own body in exchange for eternal life." Lupe lowered her

head. "My God, she intends to put on that ring and perform the rite. She means to bring Elisabeta into her

own body."

"She's already done it," Stormy said.

The other two women gaped at her. She nodded and went on. "I just ran into her outside. Only she

wasn't Brooke. She was one hundred percent Elisabeta. And I don't know about you, but I know that

one. I've lived with her for a long time now, and I know damn well she has no intention of sharing that

body with Brooke."

"She couldn't if she wanted to," Rhiannon said. "Two souls cannot long occupy the same body."

"Mine did," Stormy said. "She's been living in me for years."

"Yes, because the ring kept her from moving on. Brooke has no such anchor. She's surrendered her own

body. In your body, Tempest, Elisabeta could only lurk and wait and occasionally take control. She

wasn't strong enough to drive you out, and the power of the ring kept her from moving on. But Brooke

has given herself over. Her own soul will shrivel, weaken and fade."

"How soon?" Melina asked.

"Melina?" Lupe was searching her mentor's eyes, her own huge and brown and full of questions.

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