Page 279 of Blood and Ruin: The Complete Series

I push myself up on Jax’s shoulder, twisting around I find Axel’s dark eyes looking right at me. “Fine, but you’re getting my dick for dessert.”

My smile widens as I wet my lips. “Deal. Now put me down. All the blood has gone to my head.”

Jax slides my body down the front of his, making sure I feel every one of his hard muscles, including his thick length.

Jax licks his bottom lip, glancing down at me. “Thought you might like a little preview.”Fuck.

I’m already fucking wet, and they haven’t even touched me. Clearing my throat, I glance at the two of them. “What the hell are we waiting for?”

Jax and Axel wear matching wicked smiles as we head back to the apartment. We walk into the lounge, finding the guys all standing around looking pale.

“I got a call. More demons and beasts just showed up. A shitload of them and there doesn’t seem to be an end to when they’ll stop.”

“Fuck.” Axel breaths.

The guys share a look between them before landing on me.

“Don’t say it. I’m coming,” I tell them.

Kai sighs but nods his head.

“Guess it’s time for round two.” Jax winks at me, but he can’t hide the worry that flashes across his face.

While Kai heads off to organize a portal, I head back to my room and throw on some warmer clothes. I try not to think about what we’re heading into too much. The dread building in my stomach already tells me it isn’t going to be good.

Luka walks in just as I finish getting dressed. “Hey, what’s up?”

Without saying a word, he walks over to me and pulls me in to his side. “I don’t have a good feeling about this.”

“Me either.” The last time it was bad, and that was only one demon. I can’t imagine what it will be like with dozens of them, if not more.

“If I begged you to stay, would you?” Luka tilts my chin up to him, his eyes pleading.

“If I asked you the same, wouldyou?”

I understand their worries. Hell, I more than felt it myself when they headed off anywhere. It was so much worse after thinking I lost them, and even with their new abilities and healing, that fear is still there every time they go off somewhere. But I can’t keep them locked up any more than they can me. We have to trust that once we fight like hell to get back to one another, we will be okay.

Luka sighs. “It’s different. There’s only one of you and five of us.”

I pull back, looking at Luka like he just lost his damn mind. “You are not replaceable, Luka. Not one of you. I will never choose to lose one of you over the other. That’s not how this works. Each of you has a part of me, and I need all of them to be whole.”

“I’m sorry.” Luka shakes his head. “I don’t know what I was saying. I just don’t want anything to happen to you.”

“I get it. You’re worried. I am too. But we’re a family. We’ll do this together, just like everything else from here on out.”

Luka nods his head. “Together.”

* * *

This time,the demons and hybrid beasts are on the other side of the city. The portal brings us near enough to see what’s going on but far enough away that we don’t land straight on top of the chaos.

Everywhere I look, it’s bad. I don’t know what to focus on first.

Just like last time, buildings are completely destroyed; most are leveled with thick black smoke billowing from their base.

Demons of every kind span out across the entire area, with hundreds of hybrid beasts all around them. From large ones, like the one we fought last time, to a couple like the ones Rion, Jax, and Luka described.

It looks like hell on earth, or what I would imagine it to be. Everything is dark, destroyed, and fucking horrifying.

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