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“Or is it obviously lower…” he said, making the dagger snake in between her breasts, snagging on her sweater as it travelled down her stomach and get closer to her sex.
“Fuck! Alright, just fucking stop!” I snapped, knowing I had no play left here. He had me backed in the worst fucking corner possible.
“Mmm, well there we go, my dear, looks like we found it. Now toss the scepter at her feet, or we will see how many pieces I can toss to you as a fucking souvenir!” he growled, making me want to burst out of my fucking skin at just the thought of her being harmed. The drip of blood trickling down her neck was already fucking with my mind.
“Ryker, you know you can’t…” Van said, making me snarl before raising my hand to him and growling,
“Shut the fuck up! Alright, Hector, just don’t hurt her,” I said, seeing the tears in her eyes, after she told me,
“You can’t… please, just let me go, Ryker.” I gritted my teeth, knowing that she was trying to sacrifice herself for her world and mine combined. But I couldn’t let her do that, making me say,
“It’s okay, baby, it will all be okay.” But then her eyes went to Vander’s, and she started moving her hands, making me narrow my gaze at her. What the fuck was she doing? However, the moment Hector pressed the dagger to her side, and she yelped, I knew I was out of time. So, I tossed the scepter close to her feet.
“Pick it up!” Hector demanded, pushing her forward so she could reach it. But then the moment she took it in her hand, she looked up at me and told me something that made the blood in my veins turn to ice.
“I am sorry, Ryker, forgive me and, remember, I will always love you.”
“Evelyn?” I questioned, but then I felt Van take hold of me from behind. Then the second his hand touched my head and I started to feel a forced darkness take hold of my mind…
I knew what this was…
Betrayal.
34
THE RIGHT SIDE OF LOVE
The second I saw Vander take hold of Ryker, I knew this was it. The moment he could possibly see me for the last time. And the only emotion I saw in those navy-blue depths…
Was betrayal.
Because he knew what was happening a single second before it happened. Before he went limp in Vander’s arms, making me scream,
“GET HIM OUT OF HERE! Then I turned with the scepter in my hands and tried to run in the opposite direction to give him the time to escape with Ryker. Because I knew that Hector would follow me and the scepter, over chasing them. And I had been right, because as soon my hair was grabbed in Hector’s tight grasp, it halted my escape. One I knew had never been Fated to happen.
“Oh no you don’t!” he snarled, dragging me painfully over to the portal.
“Now get the fuck over there and open the fucking portal!” he demanded, tossing me toward the rock and making me land painfully against it, dropping the scepter at my feet.
“I don’t know how,” I told him, even though this was a lie.
“Pick it up and twist the bird to the left!” I swallowed hard, before doing as I was told, now looking up at the building-size rock and knowing that this was it. This was my only chance. However, the moment I took it back in my hands, I was about to twist it to the right, when I suddenly felt the blade at my neck. I froze, unable to move, as he now stood right behind me. Because I knew if I quickly twisted it and nothing happened, he would just make me twist it back the way I should.
“I said to the left,” he snarled close to my ear, making me gulp painfully against the blade. But then I thought on the vision the bird had shown me and when I looked back up at the rock, I knew this wasn’t it.
So, hoping I was right, I twisted it to the left, only to feel the blade leave me when the bird clamped down on the Earth at its feet. Then he took hold of my arm and extended it so I could now touch the rock with the tip.
“AAAAHHH!” I screamed as power poured from the center and travelled down to where I was touching it, making blue fire shoot down the staff in my hands. I tried to drop it, but it wouldn’t let me, fusing itself to my hand, as if I was its link to the earth it needed. It hurt like the blazes of Hell but at least it wasn’t actually burning my flesh.
But then the feeling started to ease enough for me to look up just in time for that same blue fire to erupt, exploding outward. The force of which blew me back into Hector who had been standing at my back. We both hit the ground and after landing half on top of him, I saw my only opportunity, making a grab for it before he noticed.
Then I quickly scrambled to my feet and shifted off to one side, picking up the scepter and taking it with me. As for Hector, he didn’t even notice, as his wide eyes took in the sight before us.
It was utterly terrifying.
“Yes… yes… it is really happening… soon, my master, soon you will be free, Baal Zabu!” he said, his malevolent eyes now mirroring the blue fire that had covered the entire rock. The symbols that framed the arch were now glowing white and pulsating with power. It looked as if the flames were being sucked into the center, folding inward like a water flowing into a sinkhole.
But then I could also see the hint of movement from beyond the veil of fire. One that increased just before a Demonic army started to flow through the flames, the power licking at their armor and leaving no lasting mark on the black breast plates. They were horrific to look at, with glowing red eyes, skinless heads, with flesh on show and hammered with metal plates across their mouths. But not all were the same, as this seemed to be only the first wave. Those who followed had rows of spikes in their heads and down their arms. Skeletal bodies that clattered as they moved, with bone helmets dripping in blood.
