Chapter Nineteen
Jayden’s shadows wrap around me, yanking me out of the way as a boulder flies right where I was just standing. “Thanks, baby.”
“Careful, my love. That was too close,” Jayden says.
“What’s the plan?” Raven asks.
“Hermes killed him with a stone, right? You think that’s why he’s throwing boulders at us?” I ask.
“I think that’s probably the only thing he has available to him and he’s trying to do as much damage as possible from a distance,” Jayden says.
“Okay, so we take out his weapon of choice by getting close.” Raven pulls out her twin blades.
“Time to practice transporting rapidly?” I ask. “If we can transport in and out of his guard, we could confuse him enough to give us the upper hand.”
“I can shadow travel pretty quickly in and out.” Jayden pulls his own blade.
“Aim for the eyes. If we take enough of them out, we may be able to stop him.”
I close my eyes and concentrate on transporting right to the giant’s feet. The world spins around me momentarily before Iland on solid ground. I blink my eyes open and gasp as a gray eye stares at me from Argus’ knee.
“Yeah, because that’s not creepy as fuck.” Calling my sword, I lash out at the eye.
Argus roars in pain and I concentrate before winking back to our spot in the field. I stare as Raven blinks around the giant in a circle, slashing at all his eyes that are within reach of her sword. Movement behind her catches my attention and I glance over to find Adrian nocking arrow after arrow at the giant.
Argus shakes his head and swats at the arrows, knocking them away from his body.
“Raven, shield,” I scream.
Her red body armor covers her in an instant and an arrow bounces off her head, harmless. Thank the gods.
“You ready to get back out there, love?” Jayden wraps an arm around me and covers us in shadow.
“Thanks, baby, but you know I can transport now.” I pull my whip from my lightning bolt charm.
The whip unfurls in my hand. I press a quick hot kiss to Jayden’s lips and transport myself closer to the giant. A meaty hand swats at me, but I roll away a second before he gets there. Jumping back to my feet, I crack the whip and aim for the giant’s midsection.
He’s at least ten feet tall so I can’t reach much higher than that with my whip. If we can keep his hands busy trying to swat at us though, we may be able to distract him enough that Adrian can shoot the eyes on his head.
“Adrian, hold fire until I tell you, yeah?” I shout.
“Sure thing,” he says. He doesn’t appear confused by my request at all.
Has he seen this and was just waiting for me to come to this conclusion? It wouldn’t surprise me at all. There may have evenbeen a version where I didn’t come up with this answer to our problem. What happened in that version? Did we all die?
“Raven, help me keep his hands busy,” I call to her.
She glances between me, the giant, and Adrian and her eyes widen comically. “You’re a genius, B.”
Shadows wrap around me and yank me back against a hard chest. The ground rumbles and I stumble but Jayden is there to catch me. The giant’s fisted hand sinks into the field, leaving a crater in his wake.
“Pay attention, love,” Jayden growls in my ear. “I’ll be seriously pissed if I have to drag you out of the underworld.”
“Same to you.” I press a kiss to his nose, then spin out of the cradle of his arms.
I transport to the giant’s feet and stab him in the foot with my sword. A bellow of anger and pain rattles my bones. A huge hand reaches for me, but I transport out of the way and stab his other foot.
The giant scans the clearing, searching for something, as I transport behind him and swipe at his calf with my sword. The giant stumbles but doesn’t drop like I want him to. His threshold for pain is insane.
