Josh wasn't at the house when they went back, not that Lisiantha was surprised.

He's probably meeting with the other coven and signing Mére over. Better one life than all the others.

But she still didn't believe the logic.

She felt no better when she went to bed that morning, or when she rose the next evening. She slumped up to her room and changed, then back down and outside to feed. Just as everyone had avoided Mére, they stayed away from her, too. And that ...