Page 285 of Blood and Ruin: The Complete Series

The portal closes behind her as she reaches a hand out. I reach her just before she falls forward.

“What happened?” There’s blood all over her. Her hair is matted with it, and there are cuts and bruises all over her.

She opens her mouth to speak but stops, swallowing hard, trying to catch her breath.

I check over her injuries. Some of them are deep, needing stitches. Others are starting to look slightly infected.

I don’t feel the overwhelming need to reach out and heal it like Jax’s leg, but I reach out and push some energy into her. She gasps as I continue to let the energy flow into her. It’s harder than when I healed Jax, and I have to keep pushing, but slowly, all her injuries heal, leaving only the dried blood behind.

Jazmyn glances down at her body before looking back at me. “How did you?” She frowns, stopping herself. “It doesn’t matter.”

“What happened?” Rion asks, coming up beside me. He glances down at me, smiling, but I don’t know what the smile is for until I catch the guys wearing matching ones.

Kai raises a brow, glancing from Jazmyn to me. I forgot they didn’t know about my upgraded healing ability.

I smile, telling him I’ll explain later, and focus back on Jazmyn.

Shaking her head, she blinks back tears. “It was all a distraction.”

I share a frown with the guys. “What was?”

“Manhattan.” One word strikes us silent, hitting me like a punch to the chest. Surely, she couldn’t mean…

“What do you mean? Jazmyn?”

“The Underworld…” she breathes, barely a whisper. “It’s been breached. Demons and creatures from every crevice are slipping into our realm using Staten Island to do it.”

Dread builds inside me, twisting my stomach with knots and making me feel sick to my stomach.

She shakes her head, glancing around. “We couldn’t hold them off.”

“Kane and Malik?” I ask, my stomach dropping.

She swallows hard, sighing. “They’re okay, but… It’s bad, Kiarra. I’ve never seen anything like it. We barely made it out alive.”

She looks over at the guys. “It all happened so fast, but we opened as many portals as we could to here. We didn’t know where else to go.”

I grab her hand, giving it a squeeze.

Kai nods his head. “Everyone is welcome to stay here as long as they need to.”

“Thank you,” she tells him before sharing a worried look with me.

The guys start coming up with where they can place everyone, going back and forth with different ideas.

Jazmyn looks paler the longer she stares at me.

“What is it?” I ask her, knowing whatever it is wasn’t going to be good.

“King was there.”

The guys freeze, whipping their heads to her.

“He showed up right in the middle of it all. The demons and creatures parted for him like he was their fucking master.” She swipes angrily at the tears running down her face.

Rion shares a look with Kai.

“What could he gain from all this?” Luka asks.

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