Page 241 of Blood and Ruin: The Complete Series

After a moment, I pull back and look into his eyes, now back to their normal brown but no less beautiful than the other version.

Jax rubs his hands together. “Right. How about some dancing?” He walks over, trying to pull me from Kai, but Kai tightens his hold on me, giving Jax a sharp look.

Jax rolls his eyes at him, crossing his arms. He stands there waiting impatiently.

I laugh at his expression, and he sends me a wink.

Kai sighs, leaning back to look at me. He searches my face, nodding to himself before letting me go.

Jax yanks me to him, twirling me around before tilting me backwards. A laugh escapes my lips, breaking the last of the tension.

We head out to the floor as Kai, Axel, and Rion find a table right beside us. The crowd gives us a wide berth, leaving half the dance floor to just the three of us.

A song comes on that I recognize, making me smile. Pulling my twins out to the floor, I start to move, feeling the slow beat before it starts to pick up. Jax moves behind me as Luka steps in front of me, each of them caging me in, but I don’t feel trapped.

Their dark eyes follow my every move as I let go.

With Jax and Luka surrounding me, I feel safe. This time, I enjoy myself instead of trying to escape into my mind.

Closing my eyes, I feel arms slide around my waist as the scent of Jax wraps around me, and we start to move together.

Opening my eyes, I find Luka’s gaze just as he leans in and brushes his lips against mine. His kisses are soft at first before he deepens them.

I feel his hands slide up to my face just as another pair slide down my sides.

Soft lips brush along my neck, making me shiver. I’m lost to my senses. Every slight brush and touch from Luka and Jax makes me want to go somewhere a little more private and finish what we’ve just started.

Just as one song blends into another, we hear a scream breaking us apart. It’s followed by a crash, cutting off the music. We glance around when more screams sound out just as a chair flies over Jax’s head.

“What the fuck?”

Jax aims a murderous glare in the direction of where the chair was thrown, but there’s too many people to see who it came from.

That is until a large demon rushes in with a familiar purple horn and skin.

“Malik?”

“What the hell is he doing?” Jax asks.

We watch on as he starts trashing the place. Tables and chairs get picked up and thrown across the room, and anyone who gets in his way bears the brunt of his anger.

Axel comes over, his flames coming to life when I put a hand out, telling him to stop. “He can’t control it.”

“What do you mean?” His gaze whips to mine, a frown on his face.

“King did something to him… experimented on him. He can’t control his demon side.”

His eyes widen. “And you’re only telling us this now?”

“It wasn’t exactly on the top of my mind with everything that went on, and I thought he’d tell you himself, or at least Draven or Jazmyn would.”

“Fuck.” Axel sighs, releasing the hold on his flames. He turns to the others, looking for an answer, but I already know what I have to do.

If the guys didn’t already know about my new ability, they were about to find out about it firsthand.

I reach down, gathering the darkness from within and pulling it up. A mass of inky darkness seeps out of me just as a table heads straight for me. The black mass whips out, catching it and throwing it to the other side of the room before it gets the chance to touch us.

“What the—” I hear Jax whisper, but stay focused on Malik, pulling on that spark of a connection I felt before.

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