Page 94 of Blood and Ruin: The Complete Series

It gives me hope.

CHAPTER 20

Avoiding the main stairways, I make my way to Jazmyn’s apartment, the floor just above the club.

There are not many supes about with Kane being close to Jazmyn, so I go mostly unnoticed. Those that do see me are still new blood and don’t know me long enough to know my connection to King.

Knocking on her door, it takes a couple of minutes before a pissed off witch with fire in her eyes swings it open, on guard and ready for a fight.

Spotting me, she loses some of her ire but is still on defence.

“What do you need? I thought we had everything sorted out?”

Glancing up and down the hall, I make sure we’re not being overheard before speaking. “Can we talk? There’s a slight… bump in the plan…”

She frowns at me. After everything she and Kane have been through, I can understand her hesitancy to trust anyone.

Staring at me, her eyes begin to glow a slight purple as she narrows her gaze.

Knowing she needs this, I open myself up, letting her feel just enough to trust me.

Finding what she’s looking for, she steps back and waves me in.

“Better make it quick, Kane said Kal is on the warpath. He’s been searching the whole building, locking it down. Won’t tell us what he’s looking for though, just that he knows it won’t go far.”

My guilty expression must show as she narrows her eyes on me.

“But I have a feeling, you already know all about that?”

I cringe. “Yeah, sorry about that.”

She shakes her head. “What do you need?”

“That project we’ve been working on? Would it be possible to add another person?”

Jazmyn raises her brows. “We barely had enough for two, adding another will ruin it completely.”

Damn it! My heart sinks.

Any hope I had for getting Luna out is dashed.

But still, I couldn’t leave her here. She needed to get away from Kaladar, and soon. There had to be another way.

The desperation in my eyes must show as Jazmyn leans back against the chair with a far off look in her eyes.

A moment passes before her eyes brighten with what I hope to be a solution.

“Technically, we could switch one out?”

“Switch?”

“So, instead of the two we’ve been working on to get past the borders, we could switch one out to take their place. The last spell needs to be completed just before Friday, so we still haven’t added the final ingredients yet.”

She shrugs.

“Either way, you need two to go or else the spell won’t work.”

The meaning behind what she says hits me like a ton of bricks. If I choose to go with Alana, then Luna will suffer Kaladar’s wrath and if I don’t go, it will leave Alana to King’s.

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