Page 429 of Blood and Ruin: The Complete Series

“Let’s keep moving.” The rest call their beasts to the surface until nothing but glowing eyes surround me.

We move forward, following Soren through the vast darkness. A few minutes pass before we come across two large black walls made from the same black jagged rock similar to the prison’s cells. They spread out on each side of us creating a long pathway.

As we move through them, the walls start to climb upward and over us, forming an arch.

We move through the long pathway only stopping when we reach a black door. Soren stops and turns around to us wearing a smile.

I ignore his happy mood and tilt my head toward the door. “This is it?”

He nods. “I’ve worked with the most powerful demons to make sure yourvery specificconditions have been met. Similar to the room in your basement, once it’s activated, time will move much slower. It took some tinkering but one hour outside the room will give you the specific time requested inside it.”

“Good.” The room will act similar to the way the core trapped us inside our minds. But instead of just mental suffering, we’ve adapted the energy to make sure it manifests physically, making sure King feels everything too. Every slash of pain. Every sear of flames as they blaze through his body, ripping it apart until there’s nothing but fragments of his essence left behind.

Just like our rooms in the basement, time will move slower but this time one hour outside will match six years inside.

Six years to match what he gave Kiarra with ten times the pain and suffering he put her through.

It’s not enough. It’ll never be enough for what he did to her or what took from us, but Kiarra is right, we all need to move on, and King’s death is the best fucking beginning we could ask for.

Besides, we’ve also made sure he can’t die until the six years are up. Knowing that he’ll suffer greatly in those years gives me a sliver of peace.

Soren turns to the door, doing some weird movements with his hands and whispering a strange language I’ve never heard.

As soon as he’s finished, the door lights up, opening before he turns to us.

“There you go.”

I glance inside thanking him. Apart from having another personality similar to Jax, Soren had knowledge and connections that came in use. Without him, it would’ve taken longer to set this up. And more time away from my mate was not something any of us wanted.

Soren salutes, making Jax chuckle. “Anything for the new bosses.”

I narrow my eyes on him. “We’re not your new bosses. We’re just going to help out.”

“Sure thing…boss.” He smirks at me before stepping out of the way.

I shake my head to myself. The fucker really has been spending too much time with Jax and it shows. I ignore his smirk and move into the room with the guys following me.

As soon as I cross the threshold, I feel the energy as it coats my skin. It’s dark and twisted, seeping out around us into every crevice of the room.

Jax shudders frowning at the small space. “It’s fucking creepy.”

“That’s the point.” Axel frowns at him, but glances around looking just as disturbed.

There’s a single rusty chair over by the left wall. Rion heads straight for it and throws King on it without his usual finesse.

Once King hits the chair, long thin black straps slither out from it coiling around every part of his body before seeping into his skin.

He gasps awake, his eyes widening before he quickly passes out again.

Jax sighs, looking in King’s direction. “I was hoping I’d get another few hits in.”

Axel frowns. “Same.”

Luka raises a brow at them both. “You both already beat the shit out of him, ripped him apart, and broke nearly every bone in his body.”

Jax and Axel shrug. “It’s still not enough.” They say in tandem.

Soren smirks at them. “Vicious. I like it.”

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