Page 73 of Imprisoned with the Vampire King

Afterward, I was going to have constant access to a nightmare-worthy level of dark magic unless I rebuilt the prison's spells from the ground up. Both options sounded like hell.

"Why do you feel like that?" Dante demanded, his voice still distant.

"The magic I built down here isn't repairable."

"You're okay?"

"I'm fine. All the prisoners are stuck in their cells right now."

But I needed to know who was responsible for the damage to my woven magic. Logically, there weren't many options. Not many kinds of immortals could change angelic power.

The easiest way to figure it out would be to follow the trail of it to the source.

Letting out a soft, reluctant breath, I started following the magic down a hallway.

Then up some stairs.

People were talking. They sounded agitated. A handful of them would know that someone was messing with the prison's magic.

I was hoping all of the innocents were still living in River's gang's area, to make getting them out a little easier. But I knew it was likely that there had been some sort of political shift when he left.

Reaching the entrance to a familiar hallway, I stared down the length of it. My eyes followed the wreckage that was my magic, directly to the center.

My chest tightened.

It was Reaper's hallway.

That guy scared the fuck out of me.

Because I didn't know which cell he lived in, I couldn't know if he was the source without going straight to him.

There was no point in putting it off.

I forced myself down the hallway, walking fast and taking in the prisoners around us. Reaper never had innocents in his gang before, but that could've changed.

Everyone who saw me raised their voices.

Shouted.

Reached toward me.

I tried to ignore the panic bursting through my veins, but failed.

"What the fuck just happened?" Dante demanded.

The other voices were louder, and made my stress spike higher as they flooded the hallway.

"Is that Inferno's pixie?"

"Holy fuck, it is."

"Are those angel wings?"

"Fallen angel wings."

"She must be the bitch who built this place. Guess we know how they got out of here."

"So Reaper didn't kill them?"