Page 78 of Live Like Legends

I cracked my neck and shrugged. “Let’s go find your friend.”

“Nick!” Reese yelled as we ran down different hallways, searching for the love struck angel. None of the doors had openings, so we had no way of knowing what was behind them. Reese had yanked my hand away the moment I tried to open one of the doors.

He’d made a point to harshly tell me that we didn’t need a shit ton of prisoners running around. I had spat back that they wouldn’t make it far if I had anything to do with it. He’d simply scoffed and continued to shout his best friend’s name.

“Shit.” Reese placed a hand over his face.

“What?”

He raised his hazel eyes to the ceiling, shaking his head. “Jonah made these rooms soundproof forever ago. The log of each cell's inhabitants is probably with Ariel somewhere.”

I raised my hands above my head, exasperated. “Oh well, that’sfuckinggreat, Blondie! What does that mean for us now?!”

“Stop yelling at me or I swear I will slap those handcuffs on you and leave your ass down here!”

“I would love to see you…” My words were cut off by a voice that made us both whip our heads towards where it came from.

“Reese?!” It was Nick. He sounded both excited and slightly confused.

I rolled my eyes. “Soundproof, huh?”

The blonde angel ignored me, his eyes widening as he pushed past me, walking down the hall. His head swiveled as he spoke. “Nick? Keep talking!”

“Reese, what the hell?”

I followed after him, really listening to where Nick’s voice was coming from. We continued to get Nick to keep talking when his voice got louder as we approached a door at the end of a long and dark hallway. It seemed as if Ariel had put him in the most distant part of this prison. If I was Ariel, I would have done the same thing. Isolation could do wonders to destroy someone’s mental state.

“Nick!” Reese yelled one more time, making sure we were in the right spot.

“I’m in here!” Nick responded, his voice clear as day on the other side.

Reese pressed his hand to the door. “I thought Jonah soundproofed this entire building?”

Nick let out a humorless laugh. “I have a feeling Ariel undid it. The asshole probably enjoys hearing the screams of others.”

“Lucky for us then, huh,” I said, pulling the door open when it slid away from the threshold.

Nick stood on the other side, utterly surprised by seeing us both. He hadn’t been in here long, but it already looked like his incessant overthinking had torn some of the light from his eyes. Reese ran over to him, clasping him in one of the biggest hugs I’d ever seen.

I tapped my foot on the stone. “Are you fucking done? We have to go.”

“You guys really did this as a team?” Nick asked, raising a dark eyebrow.

“I don’t have time for your annoying ass questions, so please for the love of Satan can we get out of here.”

Nick looked a bit defeated. “I can’t. I don’t have my key.”

“What?!” Reese and I both said.

Nick shook his head, a grimace on his face. “The minute I got here, she?—”

I felt a sharp heat hit my back that sent me flying against the wall. I rallied quickly, my eyebrows furrowing when my eyes met the only person at the moment that rivaled Nick’s blonde friend for the top spot on my most hated list.

Morgan let her long silky dark hair swish over her shoulders as she aimed her light at Reese, who tried to counterattack, but she was just a tiny bit quicker. His back hit the wall alongside me, but I didn’t have time to figure out a plan against her. I was already too pissed to form words.

“Nicholas, what have you done?” She asked, her voice playfully scolding. It was almost like she thought this whole thing was funny. It was shocking to think that Nick had seen anything in her because all I saw was an angel that needed their pretty ass kicked.

I unleashed my tail, whipping it around and curling it around her legs. She had started to walk over to Nick, but I had her calves trapped and scooped her up. Her glasses fell off her face as I held her upside down, flinging her body outside the door and into the hallway. Before she could collect her barings, I grabbed her by the neck, sliding her body up the wall. I slithered my tail across both her wrists, coiling itself so she couldn’t move her hands. Inky black lines formed along her skin and she hissed in pain as my venom was leaking into her veins.

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