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“I’ll come for you.”

The vision was gone as I returned to the present, but I couldn’t stay awake as my conscious began to falter away with the continued drop that would lead to me crashing into the depths of the thick waters below.

All I could do was think of the memory as the name reached the tip of my tongue. It took everything I had to say the single word, right before my mind gave up.

“Lucifer.”

The single name reached my ears, seconds before my body crashed into something that felt solid.

The world went black.

CHAPTER1

Saving Our Sweet Theia And Lucifer Morningstar

~ATTICUS~

“NESSA!”

I moved faster than I’d ever run, my paws pushing off the asphalt and sending me off the side of the mountain, which gave me the perfect sight of Nerissa. One look and I knew she was on the verge of unconsciousness, but it only worsened as the sound of shots rang through the air — three bullets hitting her at viral organ points.

“NER—Fuck!” I cursed at the bullets that hit me. Three of them glided right through my body, leaving a burst of negative energy that surged through me so fast, I almost lost consciousness immediately.

With the grit of my teeth, I fought every strand of consciousness to keep my eyes on our mate — the woman our creator made just for us— as she continued to fall towards the thick swamp below that I’d heard plenty of rumors about.

It should have been far away — on the outskirts and not close where humans, shifters, and other beings of life could potentially fall and get lost in its captive hold — but this could have been the beginning consequences of Goddess Athena’s death.

And it would only get worse if my mate succumbed to its wrath.

“Arthur. Sawyer. Cornelius. Change of plans. I need you three here, NOW!”I commanded my comrades’ aid in hopes they’d arrive and take out whoever was continuing to shoot at us.

I couldn’t focus on their replies, my attention moving from our Sweet Theia to take in the masked men who were reloading their guns to shoot another round our way. With a tsk, I kept my eyes on the prize as I returned my attention to Nerissa while my magic powered through me, just in case.

I pressed my arms to my sides to help me drop faster as I prepared to release my wings, which would give me enough force to reach Nerissa before we crashed into the waters. It would still hurt like being slapped by a wall of concrete, but I was confident in my ability to save her, which was all that mattered to me.

“Almost,” I whispered as I outstretched my arms, just as the sound of another round of bullets hit the air. I didn’t let it distract me, even as bullets grazed past me and left scratches across my flesh.

It didn’t matter how many times I got hit. All that mattered was reaching our Sweet Theia and ensuring she survived this madness.

“ARGH AHHH!” The sound of men screaming and potentially falling to their deaths was followed by another rapid wave of bullets being shot, but they were no longer being directed at us, which gave me a moment to extract my wings. They extended to their full length before flapping once, which sent me forward at jet speed.

Three seconds was all it took for me to crash into Nerissa, but I retracted my wings quickly while hugging her protective as we were seconds from the water.

“ALPHA ATTICUS!” I heard Cornelius call out to me, but it was far too late. None of them would be able to stop the inevitable so I braced for the plunge just as I heard Nerissa’s weak mutter.

“Lucifer.”

“Lucifer? Why would she—”

Our bodies crashed into the swamp's surface. The pain of broken bones made me gasp, which I regretted as we began to sink downward into the murky depths. As I held the remainder of my breath that still remained in my lungs, my eyes quickly opened and adjusted to the darkened depths of black and green, and I noticed loads of trash and dead fish.

We hadn’t even reached the bottom floor and I could feel the intense dread of death lurking to claim another set of souls for its vast collection.

It’s a shame that these waters didn’t know who they were dealing with.

With my free hand, I lightly pressed the mark on Nerissa’s neck, activating our bond mark, which began to make her body glow with golden light while her hair of purple and blue began to glimmer with tinsel strands of white.

It was like a layer of protection across her body from head to toe. I watched her breathe as though she was above the surface while her magic immediately began to spread rapidly as if its duty was to destroy the pollution in this water.

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