Page 190 of Blood and Ruin: The Complete Series

“What?” I ask.

It’s Kai who answers, rubbing his chest. “The bond, it would cut off. Disappear for hours, sometimes longer. We thought…” He swallows hard, looking sad again.

They thought I was dead, at least for a few moments, until I healed.

Kai swallows hard. “But you’d always come back to us.

Just like we would you. We’d never leave you, and even when you thought we were dead, somewhere deep down, you knew that, too.”

Maybe he’s right. I couldn’t let them go. I couldn’t see anything beyond them, but maybe that was my mind and heart trying to tell me something. That they were still here, and all I had to do was look closely enough to find that out.

“Right now, you need to tell us as much as you can about where you are.” Kai’s eyes turn focused.

“I don’t know. Being strapped down to a table in a windowless room doesn’t exactly show me much.”

Jax is the one to give me a sharp look this time. I roll my eyes but continue with what I know.

“There are plenty of guards. The building might be an old facility of some kind. But I’m grasping at straws here. I know I’m at the bottom level and that there’s at least a few above me.”

“How do you know that?” Kai asks.

“Malik told me,” I say without thinking.

“Who thefuckis Malik?” Jax spits out.

I ignore Jax’s possessive ass and answer the rest of them. “He’s a demon in the next room to mine. Or cell. There might be others in the building too, but I haven’t heard any of them.”

“But you’ve heard this… Malik?” Axel pushes.

Before I get to answer him, Rion asks his own. “And you know he’s a demon? How?”

I sigh before answering, knowing they won’t like my answer.

“Apart from telling me, he… escaped his room in his demon form and came into mine.”

They all jump in before I get the chance to explain further.

“If he—” Kai starts but stops, a dark glare shadows his eyes, expanding into his irises. He clenches his fist as he pushes back his hound before looking at me. “Tell me he didn’t—”

“Did he hurt you?” Luka comes over to me, checking me over for any injuries, making me smile.

“He just stared at me…” I tell them. It reminds me of the new ability I used when he tried to attack.

Kai releases a harsh breath, running a hand down his face.

“Because that’s not fucking creepy at all.” Jax looks at me like I’ve lost the plot, making me laugh.

Silence surrounds me, as soft smiles grow on each of the guys’ faces. I give them a questioning look, but they just shake their heads.

“You’re like a fucking beacon for trouble,” Axel says, still with that soft smile.

“Tell me about it. I attracted you lot.” I give him a smile and leave the conversation of my own new abilities for another time, not wanting to break this moment.

Jax gives me a smirk. “Yeah, but our danger is the kind you’ll enjoy.”

“Is that so?” I ask, knowing damn well that I would enjoy every minute of whatever they threw at me.

“Have you seen Kane?” Kai asks, moving the focus back on the task at hand.

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