Page 62 of Blood and Reign

Jax saunters over to me, smiling down at the clawed arms still in his hands.

He looks up and raises one of them to me, a dopey happy look on his face. “High five.”

I drop my mini demon weapons and roll my eyes at the idiot. Not deterred by my lack of interest, he uses one claw to smack the other, chuckling to himself like the little weirdo he is.

Eventually he loses interest and throws them to the ground beside the rest of the dead demons.

“That’s it?” Jax glances around, looking disappointed. It turns into a pout, making him look fucking constipated.

But the fucker has a right to be disappointed. “I’m hurt that they think we’re this weak.”

“What now?” Jax asks but the hell if I know. Glancing around, I get a good look at the pit. Maybe we can destroy it in our beast forms. My dragon can burn through anything. Surely a little fucking rock and net are nothing.

My dragon huffs, annoyed that I even question it.

I turn to Jax. “Let’s shift and see if we can destroy the pit.”

Jax smirks, a glint in his eyes that tells me he just thought of something stupid. “First one to cause enough damage wins.”

“What do we win?”

Maybe not a stupid idea after all. Both of us look at one another, wearing savage smirks.

“Mate privileges.” She doesn’t have to be here to agree. I know she’ll agree when she finds out what I have in store for her.

“Although. We never got that second round with just the two of us.” Jax raises a brow in question, wondering if I’d be up for just the three of us again. But what the fucker might not realize yet is that anything to do with our mate, and I’m automatically up for it. I fucking loved our group thing, and I can’t wait until we have alone time to do it again… and again.

The smug fucking smile I give him lets him know my answer.

We turn to head off in opposite directions when another rumble shakes the ground, making us pause.

I share a look with Jax before we both turn and stare in the sound's direction. Three large demons the size of my dragon stomp into the pit. I try to glance behind them to see where these fuckers are coming from, but there’s nothing there, so it must be some sort of portal sending them here.

“Looks like the bet is going to have to wait,” I tell Jax, rolling my shoulders back as I ready myself for round two. By the looks of these demons, they wouldn’t be easy pickings like the others.

“Or we could kill two birds?” Jax raises a brow.

“Kill the demons and destroy the pit?” I look at Jax, actually fucking impressed he came up with a decent idea before nodding my head. “Let’s do it.”

I nod to Jax before shifting. Energy slides over my body, encasing it in warm flames that make me feel alive. Shifting always does that, makes me feel like I’m part of something bigger than myself.

My dragon roars, making sure the demons below us know who’s fucking coming for them just before flames pour down around them, forcing them together.

I watch Jax shift into his shadow wolf as he uses his shadowing ability to move through the flames and right into one of the demons. I focus on the same demon adding my flames to it and watch as it lights up, burning from the inside out.

Flying up but keeping low enough to avoid the black net, I circle back around and head for the demons. When I’m close enough, I release more flames around them, enclosing them in a ring of fire before burning them, too.

Instead of exploding, they start to burn alive and slowly turn to ash.

It’s apparently not quick enough for Jax as he speeds up the process by shadowing through the flames and demons until there’s nothing left of them other than a blackened stain.

If this was their so-called backup, then they’re all fucking weak. My dragon huffs, agreeing.

I fly around the large pit trying to find an exit or way out, but apart from the cave wall with more prisons, there’s nothing.

But maybe there’s something else I can do.

I eye the black net above, coming up with a plan. If I absorb the energy, maybe I can break it and get us out of here.

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