<h4>478 in card- Part 2</h4>


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    Even though Madeline felt her chest hurt she used her wings to fly, seatching for Beth, and she didn''t stop flying. Thest thing she needed was to have Calhoun worry about her. She finally stopped to step on the ground when she found Beth in the middle of the forest.


    "Beth!" Madeline called her sister''s name loudly.


    She ran towards Beth, where she was sitting on the ground. She caught sight of blood that was spilt on the ground. She made her way near her sister, and caught sight of Raphael who leaned against the tree as if he was sleeping.


    "Maddie!" Beth whispered with a sense of relief in her voice. There were evident tears in her eyes, and the rim of her eyes had turned red and swollen because of continuous crying. Madeline hugged her sister to have Beth hug her back.


    "I am so sorry," Beth apologized.


    Madeline was d that Beth was alright, and she patted her sister''s back to soothe her. Seeing Raphael not move or open his eyes, she understood why Beth was crying right now.


    "I-I didn''t know. I didn''t realize it," said Beth, pulling back from the hug to look at Madeline and she then looked at Raphael. "I hurt him when I was in my werewolf form. I killed him. Please do something," Beth turned to look back at Madeline pleadingly.


    Madeline nodded her head, and she moved closer to Raphael. Calhoun and dimir who had followed Madeline closely stepped on the ground too. They took note of the bloodshed on the snow-covered ground, a mixture of red and ck.


    Calhoun''s eyes fell on Beth and on seeing Raphael, he gritted his teeth.


    "Fuck!" he cursed under his breath.


    Calhoun took a closer look at Raphael who looked as if he was fast asleep with blood spilt all around him. By the look and colour of the demon''s skin that had turned pale, it didn''t have to be told out loud that Raphael was dead.


    "Looks like another demon was here," dimir noted, seeing the ck ssh of liquid not too far away from where he stood.


    On the other side, Calhoun didn''t take note of it as his eyes were on Raphael. He saw Madeline check Raphael''s pulse by cing her hand on the card reader''s neck and then his wrist. She took a look at his eyes before she turned to look at Calhoun and shook her head with a sad expression.


    Beth''s hand moved up to her mouth to hide the sobs that escaped from the lips.


    Just when Madeline was ready to ce her hand on Raphael''s chest, Calhoun said, "Don''t even think about it."


    Calhoun stepped forward and he then sat down next to Raphael. He looked at the card reader''s face that had a tranquil expression on it. When he had given the antidote to Raphael, he had given it knowing if there was someone who could handle the transformed werewolf, it was the demon himself. He hadn''t imagined for the events to turn out this way.


    dimir stood behind them with a passive look on his face.


    Having witnessed many deaths in the past, Raphael''s death meant nothing to the devil as he was surrounded by death. dimir''s eyes then fell on the girl who was Madeline''s sister. "The antidote seems to have worked," hemented.


    Beth who heard this, her lips pursed and her eyebrows furrowed. She said, "I don''t think it entirely worked."


    "What do you mean?" asked Madeline.


    Beth looked down at her human hands, and within a few seconds, her fingers transformed into ws, and her eyes turn to gold.


    dimir stared at the girl, and his lips twisted in thought. "I don''t think he gave every single drop of the liquid to her."


    And it was the truth. In an effort to have Beth drink the liquid, the only opening that Raphael had found was when the werewolf had pierced its ws deep into his back from which he had lost a lot of blood. He had broken the ss vial in his hand before letting the drops of antidote fall into the beast''s mouth, where some of the drops were lost on his hand.


    Beth didn''t care about it. She shook her head, "Is there no way to bring him back?" She doubted she would be able to live the future days in peace by thinking her life was granted by the cost of another person''s life.


    Madeline ced her hand on Beth''s hand tofort her. It was hard to say anything at the moment, when her sister was trying to be a better person. No, thought Madeline. Beth had already turned to a new leaf since they hadst spoken and Beth was trying to do everything right.


    Calhoun turned to dimir who stood behind them. When his eyes met the other pair of red eyes, the older vampire said, "There is one way to bring him back."


    Beth''s eyes brightened, "What is it?"


    "Bring me an innocent''s life, and I will grant this demon a second chance," said dimir.


    dimir might have weed his grandson Calhoun and Madeline as his grandson''s wife, but that didn''t mean he had forgotten his ways. dimir was still a devil, and his offer was always hard to pay back. The price to pay was always a higher than the request or wish made.