Time seemed to slow as three figures dressed in white stepped off the path that led to the parking lot.
No way. They wouldn’t do this. Not on my watch.
I sprang into action. From this distance, I couldn’t see who they were, but it didn’t matter. I ran across the quad, drawing a knot of protection on my chest. A vampire moved toward me, then stopped as the protection hit home. I dodged the fighting wolves. I couldn’t fight the way they could. My getting involved that way wouldn’t do anyone any good. But the coven members that were starting toward the wolves—
Them, I could stop. I wouldn’t let them any closer to the wolves. Not while I had breath left to spell them with.
“Claudia,” Teresa’s voice rang out, but I didn’t stop. “Wait.”
Something grabbed my shirt, pulling me up short. I spun around. “What?”
“You don’t want to see this.”
I turned back around as I heard Raphael cry out. “Daniel!”
My blood ran cold. No. She wouldn’t do that. She couldn’t…
Raphael and the others ran outside, racing across to the figures in white.
“No. It’s not possible.” I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Daniel was there. He was one of the people in white.
But he was dead.
Oh God. The only way to make the dead to walk again was to possess them with some nasty demons. Daniel was a monster now, but my brother hadn’t realized that yet.
I couldn’t stop it. I was too far away.
Raphael reached Daniel, and froze. Daniel’s shoulders were hunched over, making him seem smaller than usual. His usual spiked up hair was limp. He leaned toward Raphael and I knew something bad was about to happen unless I found a way to stop it.
I grabbed Teresa’s hand and pushed what little energy I had left into her, amplifying her werewolf abilities. “Run. Fast. Don’t let him kill my brother.”
In a flash, her aura brightened until it was like staring at the sun. Her form shimmered—clothes falling to the ground—as she changed to wolf while running across the grass. My eyes couldn’t keep up with her. One second she was in front of me, and the next she was gone. She jumped on Daniel, knocking him from Raphael, but it was too late. Raphael screamed, and I could almost feel Daniel’s teeth as they ripped into my brother’s arm.