I shoved through the remainder of the barrier I’d crafted with Az and instantly felt Melek’s warmth inside me.Camillia,he breathed.Fuck, where are you? What happened? Are you okay?
I’m with Vivaxia,I told him.She’s doing something to my mind. I?—
Heat flooded my veins, momentarily stunning me into silence as my back hit something hard. I blinked, confused, as a world of fire unfolded around me.
My eyes widened, my feet instinctively moving to carry me backward.
And I… Imoved.
There was no more wall. No more magic binds.
Just flames dancing dangerously in the wind.
And an angel hovering above it all with largeblackwings. Her matching hair wavered in a violent breeze, fury emanating from her cold gaze. “You will help us right this wrong,” Vivaxia said, her voice carrying on the howling wind and wrapping around me in unwelcome torrents of energy. “Or you’ll end up in his prison.For good.”
With a flap of her massive wings, she stirred a gust of air that shoved me backward.
My arms went wide, my hands grasping for something to hold on to. But her gusts were too powerful, her energy a hot wave that crashed over every inch of me and seared my very soul.
I shifted to block my face, trying to protect myself from her angry howls.
Which was how I ended up facing the other way.
And spotted a familiar sight. One I’d seen in my mind, not in person.A crater in the ground surrounded by black scorch marks.
The place Lucifer fell, I recognized, the image perfectly matching what his book, Vita, had once shown me.
Jump, Melek told me, our connection suddenly wide open.Jump, Cami. Jump!
I… I wasn’t sure… I…
Flickers of power shimmered as more flames ignited, the fires encircling the hole… like Vivaxia was trying to block it from my view.
Or maybe all of this was just a mental mindfuck.
But one thing was very clear—I needed to get away from Vivaxia. From my mother. From wherever I was.In the Virtuous Fae Realm,I thought, shivering as ice shot through my veins.
Hell Fae Rule #13: Nothing Is What It Seems.
Fuck it,I told myself, taking off toward the hole. Because what did I have to lose?
Vivaxia screeched behind me, the sound reminding me of a predatory bird.
I ignored her.
I blocked everything out.
Leapt over the fire.
And fell into the black hole.
CHAPTER 18
MELEK
My wings beat at my back, my heart threatening to pound its way out of my chest.
I’m coming, Cami,I promised her.I’ll catch you.
