Book Five, Chapter 97: Not Quite The End
For a moment, I panicked as I watched the big silver screen.
We had not planned on Antoine recovering.
Sure, we had hoped for it when we used his nightmare trope to try and ease some of his trauma so he might stand a fighting chance against the wolf, but that was a pipe dream.
It was uninformed. It was… meant to make Kimberly feel better.
Somehow, he had beaten the curse. I couldn’t be sure, but I assumed it was because our advanced rolling silver disconnected him from the pack. Maybe it was even the emergence of Clara wolf.
Whatever the case, it did create a dilemma. With the pack leader defeated and essentially out of the picture—except for some cheesy little dramatic final words—it meant we had an undead werewolf running around with nothing to do.
We had relied on this being our endgame, on using the wolf Clara as a key to beating Serena. We had talked through several scenarios for this. But now that Serena was out of the picture, how did Clara fit in?
The good news was that we had beaten the rescue. Our only win condition was beating the clock, and we had certainly done that. Points to Antoine.
What mattered now was our final score, and it was up to Kimberly to bring things home.