Warrick crossed his arms and shook his head. “My pack.”
“Now, now, Warrick. When I take the throne, you will all belong to me.”
He bared his fangs. “You’ll have to do it without us. Turns out, we’ve had a change of heart.”
Her eyes grew wild as they took in the big males surrounding her, power snapping from each one. “What do you mean, a change of heart?”
“I mean, we would never betray Lucifer for you, Seraphina. To even think it shows just how fucking stupid you are.”
“Did you really think we’d want anything to do with you?” I snarled. “You fucking disgust me. Kissing you was almost as repulsive as fucking you.” The way I loathed her made me shake, and saying this shit felt good, but it wasn’t the reason I was trying to piss her off. Most beings with powers had limits. If we could get her angry enough to let loose the majority of it in one big initial blast, then we might have a chance against her.
Wind whipped around her as the fury of her power snapped through the air. The knights spaced themselves out, stepping back and blocking her way. “You have made a monumental mistake,” she shrieked.
Beelzebub roared, and Relic and Dirk shifted and pounced, tackling him to the ground, while Jagger bound him with iron forged in Hell, strong enough to hold him while we ended this.
Dirk stood over him, while Relic and Jagger took their places again.
“Looks like you’re on your own, Sera,” Chaos said.
“You think you are strong enough to defeat me?” she said and laughed maniacally. But the humor dropped as fast as it came, and she lifted her arms and screamed in rage, releasing a blast that knocked every male there on his ass.
I bounded back to my feet, and we all ran back to our places, forming a circle around her again. Chaos and Zenon started first, blasting her with power from either side of the circle. Jagger and Rome next, then Kryos and Gunner. Over and over we took turns bombarding her. Keeping her off-balance, knocking her back.
She shrieked and blasted us with another wave of her power. We managed to keep our feet this time, pushing back with everything we had. Gritting her teeth, she squeezed her hands into fists. Jagger grabbed his throat and so did Rocco. I called my hellfire forth and blasted her with it. She screamed, but didn’t let up.
“Where the fuck are the angels?” Chaos roared.
There was no sign of them, and Seraphina seemed to have a fucking endless supply of power. My brothers called their hellfire forth as well, and as one, we sent it at her, not stopping until she was engulfed in flames, fucking near burning ourselves out.
As soon as we lowered our hands, the flames died, and the knights hit her all at once, sending her wave after wave of crushing pressure, enough to bring down a fucking skyscraper, but still she remained standing.
Our power was dwindling, we couldn’t hold her for much longer.
Sera spun to me and her arm shot out. Her power wrapped around my throat, and I was dragged toward her with invisible hands.
“You’re all going to die,” she screamed, then bared her teeth. “But you, lover, will be first.”
Relic leaped forward, wrapping his jaws around Sera’s side and shaking her. She sent him flying, slamming into a brick wall hard enough to shatter every bone in his body. I roared.
“The angels should be here,” Jagger snarled.
“They’re not coming. They’re not coming for her,” War roared to Chaos as I was shoved to my knees in front of Seraphina.
He was right. They weren’t coming.
And now I was about to die without telling Roxy I was sorry, without telling her how much I loved her.
Roxy
I burst through the door to Lucifer’s quarters. He was sitting on his chair, Mini resting along the back.
As soon as he saw me, he shot to his feet and strode over. The chains attached to my wrists fell away as he gripped my chin and lifted my head up and to the side, checking out the damage to my throat, then snatched up my hand. “Your fingers.”
I pulled away. “Blessed silver.” I wriggled the remaining fingers on my left hand. “And demon teeth,” I said. “We need to go, you need to come with me.”
“Why is Beelzebub not secured?” he said, because he knew we’d found him and he knew the lord of Hell was aboveground. Lucifer always fucking knew. He frowned. “You’ve been through a lot, my precious one, I felt your pain, but he needs to be locked down…” He stilled suddenly, before I could answer, and closed his eyes, breathing in deeply. When his eyes snapped open, they were glowing. “A loss of balance. I can feel it.”
“It’s Seraphina, you didn’t know?”
