Page 43 of Blood and Reign

I stay back a moment, watching all my mates look for the best angle to attack from that will weaken them the most.

I spot Jax and Luka taking on a large group of demons, holding their own easily. Axel and Kai are holding their own, attacking the larger demons while using a tag team formation similar to back in Manhattan.

I find Rion just as he shifts into his basilisk. It looks like it’s doubled in size as it coils its enormous body around one of the large demons, squeezing it to death. It bursts into a mass of flames and ashes before Rion uncoils and moves over to the next one.

That’s enough of a head start. I smile to myself as I let my power rise up and take over. I move toward the hordes, releasing my power outward as I do.

Once I step into the chaos, the power ripples out of me in waves, turning the closest demons to ash as I walk through them.

None of them get close enough to touch me, let alone hurt me. Some of Ivor’s guards spot me, their eyes widening as I move past them, but I ignore them, focusing on the demons closest to me and my mates.

Kai, Rion, and Axel have four of the six demons already gone by the time I make it to the middle of the battleground, with them both heading on to the last two. Jax and Luka are ripping through the horde, making up for missing out on the larger demons and taking out as many of them as possible.

More smaller demons appear trying to join the rest of the horde, but they won’t get that chance if I have anything to do with it.

It was time to end this.

I pull up my power from what feels like the very core of my soul and push it out toward every demon around me, including the larger ones Rion and Kai are attacking.

Within seconds they begin to burn, shrieking into a mass of black flames before turning to ash.

The battlefield turns quiet as all of Ivor’s men look from me to my mates. They give me a wide berth as I move toward my mates.

They’ve already shifted back and meet me halfway, each wearing a smile. Kai is in front of them, coming up to me first. “You knew you were going to win that bet.”

I smile, looking at Luka. “Maybe.”

“So, what does the winner want?” Luka asks, a small, knowing smile on his face.

I’m about to answer when Ivor comes up behind us. “Well. That was—”

“Impressive?” Jax asks with a raised brow.

Ivor nods his head. “She was right. But let’s see how far your power truly goes.”

Red flags go off upon hearing his words. “Whowas right?”

“What are you—” Kai reaches out to him just as everything slows down to a stop. The world shifts on its axis, dissolving into darkness before swallowing us whole.

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I wake with a start,my dreams endlessly dark, begging for some light to filter through. When the light finally filters around me, it reveals a plain room with no windows or door.

My racing heart starts to slow when I see each of my mates around me, the rise and fall of their chests telling me they’re all alive and okay, for now.

Shaking the remaining slumber from whatever spell Ivor used, I sit up and glance around getting a better view of the room.

The walls are white and gold. There’s a small two-seater gray sofa with a black table across from me. There’s a wooden bed beneath me, large enough to fit all six of us, but Jax and Axel lie on the floor as if placed there. Luka and Kai on each side of me, with Rion by my feet.

Kai is the second to wake, while the others slowly stir around us.

“What the—” Kai’s eyes widen before he finds mine. He releases a harsh breath before glancing at each of his brothers. His panic turning to rage as it slowly builds behind his eyes.

“Where’s Soren?” Kai grits out looking around the room.

“He probably double-crossed us, just like Ivor. Dick.” Jax rubs his eyes and gets up to come over to the bed beside me.

Axel scoffs. “I fucking told you we couldn’t trust him.”

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