Page 200 of Blood and Ruin: The Complete Series

The giant grabs multiple vehicles in each hand and starts throwing them like missiles in my direction.

I avoid them, swooping straight up.

Hovering above, I open my wings wide and bring them together and back out again. A loud aerial echo sounds out as I absorb more and more energy and draw it into my wings.

Opening them wide, I hold my aim on the giant and quickly snap them together. A rush of energy flies out around me, followed by a strike like thunder heading toward the giant. It hits it, along with a couple of beasts beside it, making them all fall backwards.

Once it’s down, I rush forward and strike at every angle, attacking and slicing a couple of its arms off in the process. I continue my assault, not giving it a second to retaliate. My flames rain down around it, melting some of its rock-like body.

Before it gets the chance to get back up, I carve out a circle around the demon using my flames, destroying the bridge’s foundation.

It cracks open and crumbles to the ocean beneath it, leaving the demon nowhere to go but down. Its hands reach out, trying to grab something, but there’s nothing left to hold on to.

It drops into the ocean with a large chunk of bridge landing on it and pushing it down. The water caves in around it before the demon disappears completely.

I finish off the rest of the beasts before landing at the end of the destroyed bridge. Keeping my guard up, I watch for a moment to make sure the fucker hasn’t somehow survived it.

More of the bridge’s foundation sinks, but nothing comes back up. I wait another moment, but it’s obvious the creature is finished.

Soaring back up into the sky, I make my way back to the guys.

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Shifting back, I sense the guys’location. The bond leads me to Draven’s headquarters.

Walking into the room, Draven’s guards tilt their head in respect, opening the door for me on my way in. I shake my head at their whiplash of a change in attitude toward us and make my way over to Kai and Rion.

“Any problems?” Kai asks.

“Nothing I couldn’t handle.” I lean against the window, watching around for any further threats.

“We might have a location.” Jazmyn waltzes into the room with Draven on her heels. He’s staring at her like a lovesick puppy.

Damn, I hope I don’t look like that when I’m around Kiarra.

I glance away, catching Rion staring at me with a brow raised, a smirk on his face like he knows what I’ve been thinking.

Fuck. He probably does, with the way his mind works.

Rolling my eyes, I look back at the train wreck about to happen. With Draven’s lovesick puppy act and Jazmyn’s act of trying to seem uninterested, it is only a matter of time before the two of them come to a head.

We have enough going on. I want to be well clear of their drama when it starts.

Jazmyn’s words finally filter through, hitting me. “What do you mean, might?”

I wasn’t messing around, friend or not. I’d fry all their asses if they didn’t give me something to work with.

Jazmyn narrows her eyes on me as if knowing what I was thinking.

Oh right, she’s an empathic witch. I shrug, not caring either way.

Crossing my arms, I stare the little witch down as she tries to intimidate me. If she is waiting for some sort of apology, she might as well wait for hell to freeze over. She was shit out of luck getting anything from me. I’d fry her ass if it got me even the slightest bit closer to finding Kiarra.

She seems to figure this out on her own. Shaking her head and sighing, she looks at Kai and the others, explaining what they figured out.

“King is using a powerful concealment spell—a couple, by the feel of it—but we think we’ve got a general location.

It’s just a lot wider than we expected.”

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