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Kai catches my eye before looking around at everyone. “Stay together.” Luka grabs my hand just as we step through the cold portal and straight out into a war zone.

CHAPTER 9

Hordes of demons,unlike anything I’ve seen before, span out across the battlefield with six large demons spread out between them.

The destruction is on every surface of the battleground, the demons more vicious and powerful as they attack, leaving nothing but pieces behind. They tear into Ivor’s men like they’re nothing before moving on to the next.

The fight between Ivor’s men and the hordes of demons makes Manhattan look like a fucking joke. But we’re in their domain after all. It makes sense that they would be more powerful down here.

Axel’s eyes widen. “What the—”

“Hell? Yeah, this is definitely not Kansas, Dorothy.” Axel is still in shock at the scene in front of us that he doesn’t even snark back at Jax.

“We thought Manhattan was bad, but that wasn’t anything close to…this.” Luka frowns at the chaos ahead of us.

“And this is what our world will look like if we don’t stop King,” Kai tells us.

“Worse.” We all turn to look at Soren as he stares out at the battle, a somber look on his face. “This isn’t even a patch on what your world will look like if we don’t stop this soon.”

Ivor appears out of nowhere, standing right next to Soren as if he’s been there the whole time. He glances at all of us, a glint of intrigue in his eyes before his demeanor quickly changes.

“The demons have disarmed the barriers and are working together to take down the next one. If they manage to get past it, they’ll rip through the other realms and head into yours. Do what you can but pull back if it gets too much.” Ivor gives us all a strange look before disappearing again.

“Kiarra—” Kai starts, but I cut him off, not wanting to hear his speech of, ‘let’s all protect Kiarra.’ I think I’ve proved myself over and over that I can not only take care of myself but them too.

“Don’t even think about trying to exclude me from this. I’m more than capable of fighting in this battle.”

Kai smiles softly. “I was going to say, be careful… please.”

“Oh… you too. All of you. Don’t even think about trying something stupid.” I narrow my eyes on Jax and then Axel, knowing the two of them are the most likely to try something reckless. “And if any of you get hurt, the horde of demons will be the least of your worries.”

“Stop fucking flirting with us, babe. I can’t go out and fight with a fucking hard on.” Jax sighs loudly, as if he’s really struggling.

“I have to agree with the idiot. Your vicious streak is turning me on, and I need to go fight.” Axel adjusts himself, proving just how much my little speech is affecting him.

“You’re both crazy.”

“And you love it. Watch my back, babe.” Jax winks before running into a shift.

“Nobody wants to watch your furry ass,” Axel tells him, but he’s already heading straight for the battle. Luka looks on, his face drowning in worry for his twin.

“Go, ” I tell him, but he hesitates, not wanting to leave my side.

I glance around at the guys, but they let me take the lead on this. “How about another game? First one to kill most of the demons gets whatever they want?”

Luka smiles. It turns soft as he reads right through my reason for playing this game. “Whatever they want?”

I nod. “Whatever your heart desires.”

He chuckles, quickly coming over to me and wrapping me in a hug. “Be careful.” He turns without a backward glance, his entire body tense as he shifts into his shadow wolf.

Axel nods before following them, shifting into his dragon as flames burn a path for Jax and Luka to head straight into the middle of it all.

Kai steps up to me, his hand cupping my cheek and placing a kiss on my forehead. “Give us a head start?” He turns, running into a shift, his huge three-headed hound emerging and bulldozing his way through the hordes of demons.

That little…

Rion chuckles, seeing my expression before following Kai, jumping straight into the fight. Using hand-to-hand combat, he slices through the demons as he makes a move toward one of the larger old ones.

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