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Lucian and I don’t have a chance to react as Cassius launches at both of us. The world shifts, blending with light and darkness.
Cassius forces both of us away from the Mortal Realm.
Everything explodes into fire.
Chapter 17
LUCIAN
Brother’s Pride
I’M GOING TO rip his fucking balls off. His cock will be down his throat and out his ass the second I manipulate him to lower his guard. I have had it with Cassius and his righteous, divine intervention. He will not only be switched off course from his path, but I’ll also break the damn road and make it unable to be traveled down at all. I will burn every damn bridge he tries to create to overcome the obstacles I put in his way. The treacherous fucker, who should’ve stayed by my side as Kase, Dante, and I jumped from Heaven, will pay for his actions.
If he hadn’t been a coward and chickened out at the last second, Andre, Zade, and Elias would have followed him. We would already have Hell in order.
And now? He’s trying to steal her from me again. I will not allow him to take Raven from Hell. The devils have their claim on her, and if he wants a piece of her, he’s going to need to lose those fucking wings and devil up.
“I don’t want to fight, Luce,” Cassius says, scrambling back and summoning his heavenly sword once more. But he can’t summon the light he needs to fight me. He thought he could outsmart us and use a plane to shift us from the protection that I put in place to keep Raven safe, but he had no idea that I have tagged her with my mark that will not allow him to do so. She hasn’t even noticed the new ring on her finger. She was just so damn horny and so happy to see me that I forgot to even mention what I had done.
“If you don’t want to fight, then get on your knees and bow to me. I have grown tired of your games and your pride. You are too self-absorbed to see that no matter what you do, you will lose. You were destined to join me in Hell. And look around, Cass. You are here now.” I twirl my fingers and gather hellfire chucking it in his direction.
Cassius jumps, but he’s not fast enough to avoid the circle of flames I used to entrap him. The fire rises up and cages him within the circle. He scowls at me, flexing his wings, expanding them out despite not being able to fly. He’s not going anywhere.
“Cassius, what the fuck?” Raven asks. She pulls her shit together, finally realizing that she is in my kingdom and not in some heavenly plane Cassius tried to take us to. “How are you even here? Why are you even here? You picked your fucking side and have no right to invade our lives.”
“I will hold him if you want to fucking cut his dick off for interrupting our fuck session,” I say, turning my attention to Raven.
“I don’t know how we ended up here. Perhaps you should ask Lucifer. I was only trying to shift you from the Mortal Realm to the spiritual one.” Cassius clenches his jaw, his purple eyes glowing brighter as he tries to break free of my circle.
He sounds so fucking broken that I can’t stand it. I know that Raven has a soft spot for dejected angels, and right now, Cassius is the biggest one of them all.
Raven turns her attention to me, her eyebrows high on her forehead. For fucks sake. “What is he talking about?”
I say with a scowl and twirl my finger at her hand opposite of the one where she wears Micah’s ring. “I have you bound to Hell. It is how we decided to handle the whole angelic spawn. We can’t have you blasting us back to our kingdoms by accident like you did. Consider it my promise to keep your sexy ass safe.”
Raven gawks at the ring in silence. I hope she likes the ruby stone. Unlike Micah, I didn’t just steal it off some random bitch. I took a moment to actually look around for something that would look beautiful on her hand.
“I hope it’s up to your standards,” I add, feeling the silence that both Raven and Cassius leave in the air. You would think that they would expect stuff like this now.
“See. I told you it wasn’t me. I would never bring you here.” Snapping his attention to me, Cassius points his finger in my face. “And no, it’s not up to her standards. A ring of Hell is far beneath her. Just as you are, my wayward brother.”
Raven surprises the hell out of both of us by stomping up to Cassius and swinging her arms, smacking him across his smug face hard enough to leave a smoldering handprint behind. “Don’t talk to him like that. He has done more for me than you have.”
“Are you kidding me? I risked everything to break through the protective shield using your soul to warn you that the angelic army was coming hard and fast, deciding that they don’t want to show mercy. It is not going to be a question of where you go and when and with who. You will be their prisoner if they catch you.” Cassius rubs his hand over his cheek. I wish Raven would’ve left a mark on him like she had with Zade. Zade will never hear the end of it having my mark bitch slapped on his cheek for the rest of eternity...Cassius can claim the same since he wears a pentagram as well. At least, I think he does. I can’t imagine he would rip it off his skin like I had my wings.
I stroll closer to Raven and drape my arm over her shoulders, pulling her into my side. I drag her back a couple of feet away from the circle that traps Cassius, and I shift her, staring down into her beautiful blue eyes.
“We won’t let that happen, Ray. He is overdramatic even considering that the angelic army will get within arm’s reach of you again. Like I said, I have bound you to Hell. Andre helped me. If you get shifted to another realm, it’ll automatically bring you and whoever tries right here to my kingdom.” I brush my fingers along her cheek, hoping that she believes me over Cassius. “You and those twins are safe. If anything, those bastard angels are in fucking trouble. It’s tempting just to let them try to see them here in my kingdom.”
“You don’t know what Heaven is capable of, Luce. Things have changed since you’ve abandoned us.” Cassius remains rigid and squares his shoulders. “If they are determined enough, they will get to her. They will figure out how to escape Hell. You know I am only standing in your cage out of respect. I don’t want to fight. I only want to see to it that Raven gets the time she needs to grow on a spiritual and physical level. I have seen the darkness in her, and it is incomparable to anything I’ve ever come across, especially because of the new angelic light she carries.”
“You’re full of shit.” I whip my attention back to Raven, standing tall in my devil form to block her view of Cassius. “Cassius is capable of lying. He is incapable of doing unholy things because of our deep-seated connection. He instinctively swears. He thinks dirty-ass thoughts. And he’s capable of coming into Hell whenever he pleases, even without tapping into your soul. He is my twin, after all.”
I expect Cassius to bitch at me and try to convince her otherwise, but he remains silent, watching the two of us.
Closing her eyes, Raven tries to shut out the world around her. She bows forward and rests her head on my pec, just sucking in deep breaths. I stroke my hand up and down her naked back, wondering if I should summon her clothes. She can’t be cold here, and I know she doesn’t care if Cassius sees her sexy ass body, but she still clings on to her human rationale that probably feels uncomfortable standing so exposed.
Despite the idea of covering her body bringing great agony to my aching balls, I summon a T-shirt and shrug it over her head for her as she remains in her own headspace, trying to figure shit out.
