Frustration and unrest crawled through me, but it didn’t stop me. I had too much to lose. “We need to find a way to get there. I can’t get stuck here. We need to push through.”
Although each of us was powerful in our own right, there still wasn’t enough of us here to overcome the crawlers.
Dad had been right, there were too many of them.
A scream formed in my throat when three crawlers ran toward Vanessa, but she was already busy fighting two creatures. She wasn’t far from Isis and Alyce; except they had their hands full too.
Following my sight, Hannes paled, and without hesitation, we both dashed toward her. His Iron Prince power stride made him as fast as me, so we moved almost in unison.
The fire stream ran through my veins in anticipation, ready to be released but I was still too far away.
Killing the two creatures, Vanessa turned, but one of the new crawlers had already reached her. He gripped her by the throat before she could scream, constricting her airway and taking her power away.
“No!”
“Vanessa!” Hannes and I shouted, and I let my fire soar, but I was still too far.
Alyce suddenly jumped toward her, and we both staggered to a stop when her body exploded into a massive, gorgeous, powerful, white… Beast.
Not today assholes.
Alyce landed behind the one who held Vanessa ripping his head out as she roared. His headless body collapsed, freeing her girlfriend, but she whirled and caught the other mid-run. Grabbing both his arms, she pulled, tossing both halves away and reaching for the last one. She dragged him by the leg, tearing it off too, and then jumped on him, her claws savagely tearing through him until he was nothing but very ugly confetti.
Go feminine rage!
No one was touching her girlfriend.
“Holy shit!” Hannes gasped, giving me a wolfish smile before turning and slicing his sword through the creature jumping toward us.
“You okay?”he asked through our link.
“I can handle myself, Mr. Shield. Thank you.”I answered, already burning another crawler who tried to jump me. The stream of fire I couldn’t use to help Vanessa shot straight into his throat as he screeched at me.
“I can see that,”he added in amusement when the head of the one I’d just killed melted inward. Gross.
More came toward us.
Damn it!
Only the goddess knew how long the Martell cult had been wanting to overthrow Dariah’s kingdom. For years, they’d remained in the darkness, hidden, waiting, until crossing paths with the RavenWolf idiots who told them of my existence, giving them the only thing they’d been missing all this time.
A way to wake up their leader—Charles Martell.
“Heading toward you,”André replied, his fight had taken him farther away than we were comfortable with or had agreed.
Unfortunately, it was impossible to truly stay next to each other in this mayhem.
I jumped out of the way of a screeching crawler. My blazing hand connected with his arm when he tried to grab me, his dead eyes widening while my fire rushed over him and I scissor-kicked him into oblivion.
Spinning, I caught Dante disappearing into his darkness. From the guys, he was the farthest one away from me, but I knew he’d be here in an instant. His shadow bands began to swirl before me the next second, but an unseen force dispersed his power, blocking Dante from exiting the darkness again.
A massive form became visible instead, and I staggered back from the shock, falling on my ass.
His sinister leer stretched over thin black lips, showing rows of ragged red teeth while all-black eyes bored into mine.
Fear gripped me when theDark Onestood over me.
“Do not fret, little one.” His voice tried to reassure, sounding eerily beautiful to the point of being hypnotic. His sickly green skin gleamed under the sun, showing a multitude of collected scars. “I shall not hurt you, too much.”
