Page 321 of Psycho Devils: Aran's Story 2

After inspecting the harness for what felt like forever, Jax nodded.

I held my breath as Sadie leaped off the ground and grabbed the post with all fours.

Jinx screamed but didn’t fall. Thank the sun god.

“Are you okay to climb?” Malum asked, and I realized the kings were standing, waiting for me.

He was staring at me like he was waiting for me to admit I’d been secretly a damsel in distress this entire time.

I rolled my eyes and stabbed my razor-sharp claws into the posts.

“Be careful,” Scorpius snapped at me as he started to climb.

I stabbed unnecessarily hard into the wood and called back, “Worry about yourself.”

“Stop talking. You’re wasting your energy,” Malum snarled angrily.

I tipped back and yelled, “Okay, got it!” as loud as I could just to make it clear I was wasting energy.

Malum growled, and I smiled. The four of us stabbed our claws into the posts and hauled. Upward. Straight into the cloud cover.

Unlike the first time I’d climbed it, it wasn’t easy.

Every pull of my muscles reopened stitches on my back, and the irrational fear that my organs were going to spill out of my numerous wounds had me breathing roughly as I climbed.

When I finally made it to the top, I collapsed onto the post with a relieved gasp.

Fluffy white clouds drifted below, and everything was eerily quiet and still.

There was no wind up this high.

The eclipse appeared ten times larger. If I reached my fingers up, I reckoned I could touch it. Instead of its usual dark red, the air was a light pink like a sunset at a beach in the fae realm.

Everything was prettier up high.

Softer.

I wanted to close my eyes, spread my arms wide, and take a nap on the fluffy cloud below.

Across the way, there was a commotion as Jinx climbed off Sadie’s back.

Jinx collapsed onto her butt and tucked her legs against her chest. She shook back and forth, and her teeth chattered with fear.

An angry bear roared as Sadie flung her furry body off Jinx’s post. She sailed at least twenty feet through the air toward an empty post.

My heart went into my throat.

Sadie’s momentum pulled her over the side of the post.

At the last second, her claws stopped her progress and hung still. She clawed herself up and plopped her fluffy white ass down. Her tongue lolled out of her mouth as she delicately licked her paw.

She delicately stuck out her hind leg and licked her privates.

No one ever accused her of being classy.

I let my head fall back with a crack.

At this rate, I was going to have heart problems from too much stress.

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