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“And that, is the one he has learned to use,” Tajah added. “Idris is powerful. He can take the hits. The venom weakens him, putting him in a weakened state. Such as with Journey’s bite the first time. Once the fire consumed him, he died.” She put her fingers in air quotations. “The next time he was weakened with Alpha and Luna’s bites, with their venom. It was enough to drown him in the water with Anaki.”

Sizzle put the Glock he was holding on his lap, onto the table. “It takes that much to weaken him enough, to be killed by a weak element.” He shook his head. “That makes little sense.”

Bram chuckled and looked at his paper. “But it does. He’s weakened enough so an element can consume him. Even a necromancer has its limits, he cannot be brought back an infinite amount of times.”

I leaned back in my seat and ran my hand down my face. “So, when he wanted me to push my hand into his chest, to take out his heart—”

“Your signature move,” Grim grumbled.

“-it wouldn’t have killed him?” I asked.

Bram huffed, “No, it wouldn’t have counted as a kill. He needs to be killed by an element for it to count. His body would have dissipated and regenerated in his respawning designation.”

Beretta growled in the corner. “I’d love to know where his respawning spot is. We could attack right when he bounced back.”

Oh, that would be devilish.

“Alright, fire, water. What else?” Emm asked.

“Earth and air,” Bram said.

Hawke shuffled Delilah and their daughter in his seat. “That’s why we could get those humans out of the mansion so easily. The fae were all over the place.” Hawke tapped the table with this knuckle. “Then he had his men trap all the fae before the fight. When they got loose, he retreated into the woods. He was scared of getting choked by a vine or something. Earth—the soil, the branches, anything that extends from it.”

Bram and Tajah nodded.

“But he ran straight toward the lake,” Emm said. “He was right there.”

“He didn’t know,” I growled. “Idris didn’t know the lake was there, and he was hoping we wouldn’t figure it out, either. Hewanted me to rip out his heart and crush it, and he could disappear. Then, he would have another chance.”

“Damn him!” Grim growled and slammed his fist on the table. Journey jumped, then rubbed her hands over his face to calm him down.

Grim settled his nose into her shoulder to calm himself. He was pissed and hell, I was too, but no sense in losing our shit now. We couldn’t do a damn thing about it.

“But what about that demon,” Bear barked. “The one that messed with Nadia in her head?”

Bram looked at Nadia sympathetically and lowered his shoulders. “It was Idris that either ordered it or helped summon it, but it wasn’t all him. He had help, and with enough sorcerers, they all could have used their magic to pull that demon out of the underworld.”

Nadia swallowed, but she didn’t show any fear. She looked relieved. Bear, however, looked crazed, like was ready to fuck her all over again to stake a claim.

Which was a great reason to end the meeting.

“Right,” I said standing. “We need to kill the fucker. We know how, just when and where is the question. I say we take some time. It would be better if we could get more couples mated.”

I wanted to call out Journey. Her connection with the Goddess was the one that would make all this shit go away. My mate nudged me and shook her head.

Fuck, I should have never taught her to crawl into my mind like that.

“Yeah well. People we need to look out for?” I raised an eyebrow and people spat out some names. Names I already knew. Bones, Surkash, Bram and Sizzle, who was pissed I even brought him up.

He flipped the bird and left in a huff.

“He’ll come around,” Emm rubbed her hand up and down my arm. “When he’s ready.”

“Well, the rest of us are,” Bram mumbled and shoved his notebook in his back pocket.

Surkash was holding back taking his mate and Bones? Hell, I didn’t see any prospects for him at all.

I rubbed my hand down my face while I watched everyone file out.

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