Page 401 of Blood and Ruin: The Complete Series

“You think I give a shit about the world ending? Fuck. That. The only people I care about are the five people in this room. The rest of you can flame up and fucking disappear.”

Soren stands straight, frowning at him as if hurt. “Five? I thought we were friends?” He sniffs looking over at the small library. “I guess it was all one-sided.”

Jax's mouth twitches as he tries to keep his pissed off look in place.

Rielle gives them all an exhausted look, her patience paper thin by now. “I don’t doubt it. But I’m not talking about Kiarra sacrificing herself to fix the imbalance.”

The guys freeze.

Kai narrows his eyes on her. “Then who–”

“King.” Rielle looks at me as I glance around at my guys.

“Apparently he was a Guardian.”

“What the fuck?” Axel frowns as the others all wear shocked expressions.

Jax is the first to shake it off, narrowing his eyes on Rielle. “Is that going to be something we need to worry about with you? You come across as the crazy type.”

Rielle looks at him like she wants to smite him, while Soren quickly nods his head behind her looking straight at Jax as his mouth silently words,‘she is.’

As if she can see in the back of her head, she whips around to look at him, but he’s already changed his expression and shakes his head at Jax while looking disappointed in him.

I bite my lip to stop the laugh threatening to escape as she turns back to us. But as soon as she does, Soren’s eyes grow wide as he nods his head once more.

Rielle ignores Jax’s question to continue. “King was never supposed to escape the Underworld. He was always meant to be absorbed for his sins. But when you were created, King saw his chance and clung to that power long enough to break free from the Underworld.” I nod, knowing all this from when King revealed it but the guys still didn’t know and it was better coming from her than me.

She looks to me, her eyes softening. “Kiarra is… special.” I shift on Kai feeling uncomfortable at the way she looks at me, especially because it’s so similar to the look my mom gave me and she’s the spitting image of her.

Jax looks are her like she’s stupid. “We already know that.”

Rielle shakes her head. “You really don’t. When Erebus created the Underworld to keep a balance between worlds, he sacrificed himself to sustain it. But it’s not just his essence he left behind. Heisthe Underworld and his energy, his poweristhe core.”

I frown, looking up at her. “What does that mean?”

She glances at me, searching for something on my face before continuing. “You’re not just born from some essence left behind; you're born fromhim. You’re more powerful than us all Kiarra, and you’ve barely touched the surface of your potential.”

Soren moves beside Rielle. “What she’s trying to tell you is that you might as well have been born from the primordial being himself. There will never be anyone like you.”

I honestly don’t know what to say to that. So much has happened and been revealed that I don’t know whether to be shocked or horrified.

“Well… unless she gets knocked up. Then there’ll be lots of mini-Kiarras running around.” Everyone turns to look at Jax.

“What? It’s the truth.” As always, it breaks the tension in the room. But I’m not ready for that conversation yet.

“I’m not having kids anytime soon,” I tell them, making sure I get to that island and many more before settling down.

Jax shrugs. “Practice makes perfect, and we’ll have plenty of time to practice… Once that fucker is gone.” He winks at me.

Rielle ignores him. “Because of the bond between you all… technically, that makes youallthe closest thing to Gods that exist.”

Jax chuckles. “So, Soren was right? We are actually Gods?”

Soren narrows his eyes on Jax. “Of course, I was right.”

I give Jax a look. “Don’t let it go to your head.”

“Which head?” Jax smirks before trailing his eyes down my slip of a dress. His eyes darkening the longer he stares.

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