Page 44 of Blood and Reign

Rion rubs a hand down his face, his eyes finding mine. “Let’s just focus on getting out of here.”

“There’s no door or windows.”

Luka’s eyes trail over me before he stands up stretching his body. “Maybe it’s some sort of illusion or spell. They brought us in here. There has to be a way out.”

We all get up and start searching for a hidden door or anything at this point.

After a couple of minutes with no luck, Kai looks to the others. “Luka? Rion? Can either of you sense any build-up of energy?”

Luka shakes his head but stops, looking down at his wrist. “What’s this?”

A black bracelet with a line of beads is on it. Rion has the same one. I glance down at my wrist and find the same bracelet on me, too.

“We all have them.” I try to pull mine off, but it won’t budge. “It won’t come off.”

They all start pulling at their own and short from ripping their hands off, it doesn’t budge.

Kai frowns down at his. “Neither will mine.”

“Shit. Same here.” Jax yanks at his with no luck. I inspect mine, noticing the beads looking completely dull with not even a sliver of light to them.

“Guys?”

“Why would he put us in a room with no window or door and put some strange ass bracelet on us? I mean… it’s not even my style.” Jax glares at the thing as if it insults him by existing.

Kai ignores Jax’s humor. “It has to be spelled.”

Axel scoffs. “He must know by now that we can just—”

“GUYS!”

We all turn to Luka and the panicked look on his face. “I can’t shift.”

The guy’s eyes turn from pissed to panicked in seconds. “Fuck.”

I reach down inside but feel… empty. Like someone has flipped a switch and made my powers disappear.

Panic chokes me, twisting knots in my stomach as I realize how vulnerable we all are now. “My powers don’t work either.”

“Damn it.” Axel slams his fist down on to the black table, breaking it in two. “I’m going to rip Soren and Ivor apart when I see them. They’re going to wish they never met us.”

“Get in line.” Jax growls, his focus on the bracelet as he continues to try to rip it off.

“How is this possible? How can they just block us from using our abilities?” So much for being super powerful. A shit lot that’s done when all it took was a snap of Ivor’s fingers, and here we are. Imprisoned in some room with no way out.

Rion sighs. “It could be the bracelets or the room itself.”

Kai folds his arms. “Let’s think. What did Ivor say before he knocked us out?”

I rummage through my brain for when I last saw him. His face flashes before me, a smile across his lips as he mentioned our powers.

She was right.

That’s what he said. Or maybe I misheard him? Maybe he meant he?

“He said something about him seeing how far our powers really go. Maybe he wants to test them?” I glance up at the guys as they steadily grow angrier.

“They could’ve just fucking asked,” Jax growls, narrowing his eyes around the room. “I would’ve given them a personal demonstration.”

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