“Shit…” Bael whispered as he and Ryker flew toward the billows of black smoke coming from the edge of campus, where Nix was being hidden. “They were supposed to keep a low profile.”
Was she okay? Had she started the fire?
Damn, they were lucky that clouds hid the moonlight, keeping the noticeable smoke from being well illuminated in the dark.
“Nix!” Bael shouted, swooping down and retracting his wings when he dropped to the ground close to the smoke. “Where the hell are Stoney and Pers?”
Ryker landed beside him, leaving his large, scaled wings open as he roared. He swung his wings down, pushing some of the smoke aside. “Fire is…from underground.”
“Fuck, the bunker cell is old. It won’t survive any—”
The ground shook under the men’s feet. Bael gaped. Alphas with fully shifted wings were heavy motherfuckers; yet, the trembling of the ground was powerful enough to cause Bael and Ryker towobble.
The two most dangerous shifters at Alatus Academy were stumbling to find their footing and balance over the formidable quaking earth.
It felt like Hell was about to open up beneath them. This level of power…
There were rumors amongst the other demons that a dark, powerful force would emerge in the next few years. Was that…Nix?
“What’s happening?” a familiar voice yelled just before Thierry swooped down a few feet away from the others. Persius arrived from the opposite direction.
“The fuck?” Bael demanded answers. “You left her? She is down therealone?”
The smoke darkened in color as it wafted up from the singed grass.
Phoenix rising from the ashes.
But Nix would not survive as the cement-and-metal bunker walls collapsed onto her. She had not aged into immortality yet. She could die. “We’ve got to get to her before—”
“Collapse,” Ryker anxiously bellowed.
The ground sank deeper beneath them as a female scream broke out.
“Nix!” Bael yelled and threw himself to where the old bunker door had concaved into the ground. The other men joined him within seconds.
On their knees, the four alphas ferociously clawed at the dirt to get to her.
“I will fucking kill all of you if she dies,” Bael promised. “You will all spend the rest of your immortal days tortured in Hell.”
“We left her with the new potions professor; she should have been safe—”
The ground shook and crumbled beneath them, right above where the bunker was.
“MATE,” Ryker roared as he tore up large chunks of earth even as the cracks in the ground sucked more soil beneath them than they could scoop away.
“She cannot survive being buried alive,” Thierry remarked, tone cold and withdrawn.
“You justhadto fear her power,” Bael shot back sarcastically. His expression spewed his obvious disgust. “You had to lock her up like some kind of—”
“It was for everyone’s safety!”
Bael bellowed, “FUCK EVERYONE BUT HER—”
The ground fell from beneath them.
CHAPTER 29
“Nix!” Thierry shouted as the dust settled around him.
