Chapter 370

"Blah, blah, blah. Rage all you want," I told her. "The only way you'll claim me is over my dead body. And oh, wait. We ran that script already. You didn't get me then and you won't now. I am my parents' daughter. I am my brother's twin. I am Rohan's girlfriend. I am friend to my friends. But above all, I am myself. I am Nava Liron Katz and you can't have me."

"Lilith?" Ro said.

I nodded.

Lilith shut down my muscular system with a snap that almost broke my neck.

"I need to get the ring off Mandelbaum's sausage finger." I wrestled control of the magic and my body away from Lilith.

"You can't touch him," Ari said.

"I have to. There's no other way to get that ring and stop Gog and Magog."

The rabbi stood up. There was dust all over his suit and blood streamed down one side of his human face. He lurched toward me.

The witches did their best to slow him down.

"Let someone else do it," Rohan said. "Someone who's lost their magic already."