Page 121 of Cursed Heirs

He hesitated for a moment, clearly overcome by the state I was in, and he looked out at the shadow still reeling face-down and groaning, and Constantine still outside.

He took a chance and skidded toward me.

His hands shook as he rapidly pressed his power to the Dark Fae metal and broke through each cuff in turn.

“I’m okay,” I said, trying to reassure him.

But I could tell he didn’t believe me one bit.

He carefully opened the robe a little, seeing the bloodied wounds all over my body.

“Alena, any way I transport you out of here is going to hurt.”

My limbs finally free, I grabbed his hand. “I don’t care. You’re here. That’s all that matters.”

“I’m so fucking sorry it took us so long.” He cupped my face gently, emotion swimming in his eyes. “It’s over now. You’re coming home.”

“Absolutely not,” that awful voice sounded a moment before Constantine burst back into the room and fired his crimson power at Orpheus.

I screamed and Orpheus jumped back and spun with his purple power flaming just in time to catch the bolt before it hit.

He growled and threw it back at Constantine, but the bastard dodged it with his vampire speed. It hit the ceiling instead,causing damage to the structural integrity of the room, debris crashing down and threatening to bring the entire ceiling with it.

Orpheus thrust his power my way and a shield enveloped me, protecting me as more debris started to fall, the room collapsing.

What about him, though?

“Orpheus!” I cried.

He thrust his palm up toward the ceiling, holding it in place with the sheer force of his power, while Constantine then took the opportunity to attack with his dark magic again.

Orpheus grunted as he held his stream off with his own.

“You are wasting great effort,” Constantine told him. “Look at her. The damage I’ve done… I’ve ruined her. For you and anyone beyond. She’s still infected with black magic and every moment that goes by is killing your father. Leave her with me and I’ll break the spell and spare him.”

“No deal. And don’t bullshit a bullshitter. If you knew how to do that, you would have already done it. Alena could never beruinedto us. She’s ours and she belongs with us, no matter what occurs, no matter how hard you’ve tried to take her from us.”

Emotion clogged my throat at his beautiful words.

“Because of her, your father will die. Are you really that bewitched by her that you’d allow that to happen?”

Orpheus roared and his power flared to an exponential level that I’d never seen from him before. It tore right through Constantine’s stream, all that magic slamming into him and making him shriek as it blew him through another section of the wall.

Before Orpheus could revel in that, the shadow got to their feet and fired at him.

He grunted and fell back as it hit him in the gut.

It was all the distraction they needed for Constantine to rush back through the wall and run at Orpheus, driving him intothe wall right beside my chair, his hands wrapping around his throat.

Orpheus growled and grabbed at the fucker’s arms, burning him with his purple power.

Constantine gritted his teeth and threw out his arm behind him, his power flaring.

He was summoning something.

All too quickly we found out what that was as theHellbornripped through the door and flew into his hand.

“No!” I screamed, as he went to activate it to harm Orpheus with it.

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