Page 5 of Their Princess

“You are the enemy!” the Grand Advisor yelled. “You have betrayed your people by siding with the ones here. You want to eradicate the demons as proven by you mating the famed demon hunters.”

“Shut up,” I snapped at him. “I don’t know how you’re doing this, but I’m going to end you. I’m going to destroy you.”

Before I could even take a step towards the Grand Advisor, Jol grabbed my hair and flung me backwards with it.

I landed on my back with an oomph, all of my air whooshed out of my lungs as his club struck my chest.

Shit. This was one of Molly’s visions.

I tried to take a breath and winced. He’d broken at least two of my ribs. Crap.

Rolling over, I started to crawl towards the portal. Maybe if I could get Jol back into the demon world it would reset the Grand Advisor’s brainwashing.

Someone scooped me up just as Jol was about to crush me with the club again.

“You trying to die?” my brother, Tony, asked. He was in his werewolf warrior shift so his words were a little slurred from talking with a wolf head.

“Through the portal,” I ordered him as I gasped for breath.

He sighed. “I hope you know what you’re doing because your mates are going absolutely insane inside of the shield and trying to fight our family to get to you.”

Jol swung his club down and Tony dodged out of the way, growling at Jol.

We ran through the portal and he had to slide to a stop as we came face to face with a huge group of demons.

“Shit,” he muttered and spun to the right as Jol followed after us.

“Jol! Please listen to me,” I begged. “You are bound toprotectme!”

“Lies!” he shouted and rammed into us with his shoulder, causing Tony to drop me.

I summoned my snake and she struck, biting into Jol’s neck.

He fell to his knees and his head dropped forward.

“What are you doing?” Tony asked.

“I’m not sure,” I admitted. “The power did it on its own.”

“Princess,” Azgon yelled as she ran towards me. She puffed up and hissed at the demons who had started to move closer to us.

“Azgon,” I gasped and hugged her.

She stiffened in my hold at first and then patted my back in return. “The brainwashing is bad!” she shouted as we separated. “All the males are infected!”

“I need you to do me a favor,” I said.

She nodded. “Okay. Okay.”

“Go to the castle and free Dhun.”

“The hellhound pup?”

I nodded. “They’ve locked him up and I think there’s a reason. Please, go release him and lead him to the portals here.”

She nodded. “You got it! Oh, watch out!”

Turning, we found Jol back on his feet and my shadow snake gone.

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