Chapter 106

"How long are you going to watch it burn?" Dana asked.

The sun, now high in the sky, had turned the smoldering ruin of his father's corpse into ash, and still Nathan stared, unable to shake the fear that the monster would somehow return. Worried that his family was still in danger.

"Will it ever be truly over?" he asked. According to the vampire he'd spoken to, it took only a few hours of daylight to kill a vampire permanently. It had been over eight. Roderick was finally gone. He knew this, and yet he still couldn't move.

"Roderick's dead."

"But the wolves he abused are still alive. What am I going to do with them? They're no longer under the influence of a vampire, but the things they've done . . ."

A sigh left her. "I don't know what to tell you. You can't kill them all. Some, like Jaxon, redeemed themselves or never sank to the depraved heights some embraced. You'll have to judge them, case by case."

"And so the nightmare continues."