Page 135 of Fallen Heirs

He hit her again and again in a clear bid to overwhelm her.

She screamed in fury at him keeping her from her goal. Her fucking insane goal.

Constantine was pacing the cell wildly, like a literal caged beast. He suddenly slapped his palm to the magical cell wall and Lenora noticed. Then a sly smile spread over her face and the next thing we knew, she was shoving her palm full of magic right through the cell and clasping his hand.

In the next second, she was yanking him out with the grip, past all the magic, even the phoenix flames, just absorbing it all and for him while they were physically connected, all because of my mom’s sheer power she had at her disposal.

Holy fuck.

I gritted my teeth and managed to roll onto my side as my body slowly fought to heal itself from the major blow she’d dealt me.

And then I was screaming as she fired a bolt of that same power straight at Orpheus.

He managed to dodge it, but it was a short-lived relief when Constantine joined her, the two of them targeting him mercilessly and Constantine strategically forcing him straight into a direct blast of Lenora’s power.

It hit Orpheus in the gut, making him cry out as it ripped him out of the sky and sent him careening into a tree. He ricocheted off it and landed painfully hard on his stomach.

Just as he tried to get up, Lenora stalked over there, firing at him, blowing him onto his side, over and over.

No. No. No.

I struggled onto my knees.

He threw his palm out, his hand trembling as he tried to call his power. But then Constantine was there snapping his wrist, making him cry out, then kicking him in the face.

“I warned you,” Lenora told Orpheus.

“And yet,” he seethed back at her, choking up a mouthful of blood as he lay there on his back while the two of them closed in.

“Did you really think you’d survive turning my followers against me, forming a fucking army to defeat me, and caging me like an animal?” Constantine growled at him. “I gave you a way out during our last battle and you failed to take it. In fact, you crossed me. Now you will suffer for your insolence and your utter foolishness.” He called his power, his palms flaming on one side of Orpheus while Lenora stood on the other, hers also aflame. “Make it hurt,” he told her. “Keep him alive until he begins to beg for the torment to end. I want him broken first.”

Orpheus moved to call his magic again, but this time Constantine stomped on his hand, breaking his other wrist. He then stepped back and left it to Lenora.

I jolted as he swung his head towardme, his fangs dropping.

I couldn’t fucking worry about that right now while Orpheus was suffering.

I forced myself to my feet and managed to call my power.

But then my vision was obscured by a sudden blur a moment before I was slammed onto my back again.

I choked and looked to see Constantine eyeing me, now just a few feet from me as he took me in.

He blasted me with his power, knocking me onto my side and sending a searing pain through me.

I caught sight of Orpheus through it and Lenora was moving in for a killing blow.

“Stop!” I screamed. “Fuckingstop!”

Silver flames lit up the night a moment before my cries were answered and Lenora was suddenly blown back by a ferocious blast—straight from Saryan Hart.

He was in front of his son in the next moment, blocking Lenora’s way to him.

“Not this night,abomination.”

She sneered and fired upon him.

He thrust a shield of his power before him and Orpheus.

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