Page 109 of Blood and Reign

“I guess he can stick around.”

He narrows his eyes on me as if to say, ‘like you have a choice.’

I laugh at him when a sharp yank from somewhere deep inside me makes me gasp.

Rielle turns to me with worried eyes. “What is it?”

I rub the spot but narrow my eyes on Zillah as he fucking smirks at me. “Zillah just yanked on our connection. It washardtoo.”

Rielle frowns at Zillah before looking back at me. “He must need to tell you something. Focus on the connection between you two and he’ll show you what he needs to.”

"That's something we can do?"

Rielle nods while Zillah just looks at me like I'm an idiot.

I reach down inside me and find the link that connects me and Zillah. It’s not hard to find after the fucker yanked on it a moment ago. Once I have it, I pull it closer, letting the connection form around me. As soon as I do, I start seeing flashes of Manhattan. But not of the Manhattan we left.

There's a huge battle going on with thousands of demons of all shapes and sizes. It's like nothing I've seen before. Nothing even close to the first battle in Manhattan or in the Underworld. The supes are holding on, but barely, and the carnage and destruction are something I would only see in my nightmares, covering every surface and plane.

The connection quickly cuts off as Zillah pulls back.

Rielle frowns at me. “What is it? You look pale.”

I glance at her, not really seeing her, my mind still on the destruction in Manhattan, before glancing at Zillah.

“Is that real? Is that happening right now?”

Zillah nods, confirming my fears.

Every time I think it can’t get any worse, something like this happens.

I look at Rielle and swallow hard. “It’s King. He’s got an army of demons and is destroying Manhattan and everything there. We need to leave as soon as possible. We need to help them.”

Zillah disappears as quickly as he came.

“Where are my mates?”

“Your mates are close by, they’re all… anxious to see you but they know you need your rest.”

From the look in her eyes, I can tell she’s trying to be nice when she says anxious. Stubborn, controlling, or overprotective, sounds more fitting and I doubted any of them agreed to leave my side without some convincing.

I move to get out of bed to go find them. She frowns watching me. She’s about to say something when the door opens revealing Soren.

Rielle ignores him, still looking at me, but I catch the twitch in her eye and how her body turns stiff as he enters the room.

Soren gives me a smile as I move over to him. “I’m glad you’re okay. Your mates have been insufferable since Rielle told them they couldn’t enter the healing room.”

I glance over at Rielle. She’s still in the same spot and as stiff as ever.

“How did you get them to agree to that?” They normally never let me out of their sight, especially after everything that has happened. But maybe this is progress?

Rielle’s lip twitches. “I told them you would heal quicker if no one was in the room.” And that worked? The twinkle in her eyes tells me there’s more to it.

Soren laughs. “You told them if they were in the room, the healingwouldn’twork…at all.”

I bite my lip from laughing at Rielle’s white lie. I’m still a little shocked they actually went along with her. But maybe her looking like my mom had something to do with it.

Rielle raises a brow at Soren. “She needed her rest. And having possessive, overprotective men hovering over her would do no one any good.”

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