Page 186 of Song of Her Siren

“An Indus worm?” Blaze blurted.

Tari’s mates swore.

“Brace yourselves.” Tari wrapped her arms around herself. “The Darkness is coming.”

The Darkness? The demon king?

A loud crack rent the air as if the sky had split open, and the ground shook with such a violent tremor, I feared the castle walls would fall down upon us. I clung to the girls, and Drae threw up a curse chamber moments before a chandelier fell from the ceiling. It bounced off the bubble, striking the floor and setting the carpet on fire. Drae popped the bubble, and my mates stomped out the fire before it could spread.

Ash lifted Tari into his arms. She rested her head against his shoulder while mumbling about needing to close the portal.

Helian ran to the window, pointing at something outside. “What isthat?”

I pressed the girls to my sides and looked out the window as a wicked bolt of lightning zig-zagged across the sky, exposing the biggest dragon I’d ever seen, even bigger than the Nephilim, only this dragon had seven heads attached to seven long necks that waved in the air like slithering snakes, and he was gripping the seawall! If he destroyed that wall, we were definitely screwed. So, this was Mephis’s Infernal form? No wonder he’d been able to control Drae.

Dragons swarmed the creature, but he easily knocked them down with one of his seven heads, splitting them in half and flinging their lifeless bodies into the ocean.

Helian let out a war cry, punching the air. “We have to do something!”

“What can we do?” Drae blinked again and again while staring out the window, as if he didn’t believe his own eyes.

“We’re fucked.” Ash adjusted Tari in his arms. “No way in hell am I letting you go up against that.”

“Do you think your siren could control it?” Blaze asked me.

I gaped at him. “I-I don’t know.” But Elements help me, I needed to try.

Ember tugged on my skirts while blinking up at me. “You can if you know his familiar name.”

“Do you know it?” I blurted.

She nodded. “Satanas.”

I knelt beside her, grasping her shoulders. “Your friends told you this?”

When she nodded again, I kissed the top of my niece’s head. “Thank you, darling.”

Tari pushed against Ash’s chest. “I have to go.”

He refused to release her. “Where?”

“To the portal,” she said on a slow drawl, as if she was still waking up. “I need to close it.”

Ash’s eyes flared with rage. “Have you gone mad?”

She flattened her hand against his chest. “Cassandra said if we close the portal where the Infernal came from, the demon will be sucked back into hell. I saw the portal when Megaera captured me.”

The room shook again as another loud crack rent the air. I peered out the window, horrified when lightning flew out of the demon king’s dragon mouths. The idea of closing the portal was looking better and better, because I sure as heck didn’t want to go up against that monster. “Do you remember the spell?” I asked my sister.

She nodded. “This will never end so long as the portals are open. I’m closing that one, and then I’m going over the mountains and closing the other one.”

Ash let out a groan when Tari slipped from his arms, straightening her skirts.

He clutched her arm, snarling. “I’m going with you.”

Helian grabbed her other arm, his features hardening with resolve. “So am I.”

“Don’t get yourself killed, sister,” Tari said to me. “Just distract the demon king until I can send him back to hell.”

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