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Status.
He wanted power and status.
It was just so shallow. So basic. So fucking .. . infuriating.
I grabbed hold of my rage, and I used it to ground me. Pain was an assault on my physical self, so it took something strong to combat it.
Rage would do.
I settled into it, wrapping it around me like a cloak to keep me warm in the winter—and then I fought.
“Where do you want to be?” Eres asked, her voice sounding closer than it had before.
I didn’t answer. Right now I just wanted to fight.
“Teleport, Reagan. Take the rage, let it fuel you. End him.”
“With what magic?”
“Mine.”
We both knew what it meant.
I clawed my way out of the darkness. My hands fisted, nails digging into my palms, likely leaving little crescent shapes. That was good. My rage almost slipped but I held it tight, damn near strangling it.
Sweat beaded on the back of my neck, dripping down, and mixing with my blood. The sting was lost in the fire that seemed to consume me, but it was there. I focused on it—the shaking of my arms—the cramping of my abdomen—the dryness of my mouth.
And I felt it all.
My eyes flew open.
Abyssian knelt before me, Clara behind him, forcibly painting his back in my blood. She looked up, sorrow and terror in her eyes. She faltered, her trembling fingers making an errant brush stroke.
Abyssian’s head snapped up. Shock colored his features.
“Impossible,” he whispered. I shouldn’t have heard it, but I did. That anger, that rage that I held so tight? I became it. It empowered me. I felt strong. Unbeatable. Unchained.
“You may succeed in killing me,” I said. My voice didn’t sound like me. It was deeper. Darker.Eres. “But you will not control my mate’s soul. I will not allow it.”
He blinked twice. A shadow of fear crossing his features. Then he took stock of my arms, still tied and hanging from the ceiling.
My position didn’t lend credence to my threat.
“You can’t stop me,” he said. It’s almost done.
I still had one thing. One thing I could do.
I felt Eres step up and look out through my eyes, but we spoke together. “We can’t stop our death, but we can take you with us.”
Everything in me seemed to boil and build. It was as if my skin heated to a thousand degrees. I arched my back. In the blink of an eye, I disappeared, teleporting as I reappeared next to him. He had no time to react. I pressed my hand to his chest as Eres opened a gateway between us. Her power lashed out, blinding in its darkness.
Pure black, obsidian magic arced from me into him.
I cried out, and Abyssian joined me.
It was a beautiful and terrible thing.
“Eres ...”
