Lavender turned to look back at Malachi with a cut across his face. She had made him bleed. It made her stomach drop. It was too hard for her to look at him and not see her husband. She couldn’t keep trying to hurt him in defense. She needed her wand which was still upstairs. Backing up into the corner as Nicodemus closed on her, she summoned her wand. It quickly flew into her hand and she pointed it at him with a shaky hand. She didn’t want to do it but had to. “Stupefy!” A bolt of red light blast out from her wand. “You can’t have Malachi or me!” She shouted at him, her eyes full of tears.