Page 114 of Cursed Heirs

“Not like this,” I gritted out.

“Hmm, Constantine thought you might prove ungrateful for him offering such a pleasant deal.”

“Ungrateful?You’re a fucking psychopath!”

“A small mind like yours would see it that way.”

I concentrated, trying to mind-link Ore, but a sharp pain shot through my temples. “Shit,” I cursed. “What is—”

“Trying to covertly contact your almighty prince? Or, perhaps, the hybrid?”

“What did you do?”

“I rendered your ability to do so useless. My magic is forming a block, as well as holding you steady. Now, of course, there is one way to break through it all.”

“My phoenix fire,” I realized aloud. He was fucking insane. “You don’t know what you’re asking for.”

“We know exactly, baby phoenix.”

“I’m not unleashing it, so release me and back the fuck off.”

“Did you not hear me? Alena is being tortured by Constantine as we speak. You can stop it. Do you want me to tell you exactly what he’s subjecting her to?”

“No,” I ground out, feeling that fiery sensation in the pit of my stomach, the sign that my fire was rising, wanting to erupt—in a completely out of control way. A dangerous fucking way that could obliterate everything in my path.

Including him.

I squeezed my eyes shut.No. Don’t go there. He’ll get his due, just not like this.

“He has his filthy hands all over her—and other things—treating her like his whore. Like nothing more than a bitch on his leash. She was screaming and crying for you. Especially when he started cutting into her. And just to paint the picture a little more graphically for you, the way he infected her with so much black magic in such a short amount of time was by making her spread for him while she was in a zoned-out state and take his painfully big—”

“Stop!” I roared, my flames erupting from my palms.

My hands were shaking in my bound state, pushing against his magic.

Stop! No further. Pull it back.

“As I was saying,” he uttered, grinning sadistically, getting off on my struggle and the pain he was causing me—and, worse, the pain they’d caused Alena. “He defiled her like she was his doll and filled her up with his—”

“I saidstop!” I bellowed, my fire flaming wilder.

I was losing control.

The fire was rising, taking me over.

“That’s a good boy. Do something useful for once. It must kill you to be surrounded by such powerful beings and be so ridiculously impotent all because you’re afraid of losing control. What a weak being you truly are. And she’s suffering because of it. Because ofyou!”

“Argh!” I screamed.

I felt my eyes flame, the phoenix was taking control, coming out to rage.

It was too late.

I couldn’t stop it.

“Get back, X!” I screamed out, hoping like shit he’d hear me and get clear.

He should be coming to my room to meet me any moment. Without his magic, he stood no chance against my fire.

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