Page 58 of Chaos Unleashed

Loki’s mouth drops open before forming into a proud smile, “That’s my girl.”

Grey shoots to his feet, “Hang on, you killed them by yourself?”

I nod, “Yeah, well like I said I think so. I’m not really sure how to kill them to make sure they stay dead, so I took these.”

I open the pockets of the Void where I stored the heads and pull them out one by one dumping them on the floor. It makes for quite a macabre sight.

“Fucking hell, calling yourself a bit bloodthirsty was an understatement Ren,” H grins, and then adds, “I love it.”

Clearing his throat and staring at them in shock, Grey says, “Erm, yeah, severing their heads and then keeping them separate from their bodies will do the trick.”

I breathe a sigh of relief, “Thank fuck for that.”

I smile as I look over their dead faces, and then one by one fling them into separate pockets of the Void. When I get to Dagon’s head, Meri chirps in my ear.

“You want to give it a go?” I ask her. The guys are all silently watching me as they seem to digest what I’ve just told them.

“Give what a go?” Zev asks curiously.

“Watch,” I reply and then turn to Meri; she launches herself off my shoulder and hovers in the air as I pick up the head by its hair, open a pocket of the Void, and then throw it in the air.

Meri chirps happily as she spins in the air and smacks it with her tail, launching it straight into the Void hole. She rushes back to me, chirping happily and wriggling her butt as I congratulate her and tell her what a good girl she’s been.

Chapter Twenty-Three

Farren

“What was that?” Reaper asks, looking more amused than disturbed.

“That is something that Farren and Poca do with severed body parts, apparently,” Xerxes says.

“Xerxes, what the fuck are you doing here?” Storm asks.

“Oh shit, sorry,” I tell him as I jump up and rush to the pile of straw where I put him before, picking him up.

I feel really bad that I forgot about him.

“Don’t worry about it; after everything that you’ve been through, you need the cuddles and the safety, and I wasn’t going to interrupt that for any reason.”

“Thank you,” I tell him softly.

As I sit back down, X answers Storm’s question, “I was sent here to help Farren and tell her about the key fragment in Hades’ vault.”

As soon as he’s finished talking, something occurs to me, “Wait, with the princes dead, why did I still need to get the key fragment?”

“I don’t know. Are you sure you did? I mean, maybe whoever sent Xerxes didn’t know that you’d end up killing the princes?” Mayhem suggests.

My mind spins, and it suddenly hits me: “It’s because this isn’t over. The princes were pawns; they weren’t the person calling the shots; that was the god.”

Grey holds his hands up, “Whoa, I think you maybe need to start explaining from the beginning.”

“Shit, okay,” I reply, trying to think where it is best to start; there’s no point telling them about the torture; they don’t need to know that.

“Won't the Helliers be coming after you? How did you manage to kill the princes with all the Helliers at the castle?” Storm asks, thankfully giving me a starting point.

“Oh, well, there were only a few Helliers left at the castle, and since I was all full of Void magic and mad as fucking hell, they weren’t that difficult to get rid of.” I explain, “I used magic from X to help guide me to the key but got to a point where the cleaning just sort of stopped; there was a definitive line. A maid sort of found me, and she explained that the commanders had stopped coming to the castle and stopped sending new Helliers up there a long time ago. They were duty bound to follow the princes orders, but that didn’t include sending new Helliers up to the castle.”

“So there may be hope for them yet,” H mutters.

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