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Without having to see, I know that the angelic army gave Elias to the demons that they have teamed up with to get them through Hell to take control.
“It’s Vincent. I know it.” Just the thought of the disgusting demon laying his hands on Elias sends fire coursing through me, and my hands explode in flames.
I scream as agony steals my breath, the world around me reacting to the Hell I manage to summon. This place really isn’t intended for Hell beings. It’s not intended for me either.
I lose my footing and drop to my knees, bowing forward as I try to extinguish the flames. But they don’t vanish. My body shudders and fights against me. I feel as if I’m being torn apart and I’m killing myself. My soul wants nothing more than to escape.
“Fuck. We have to go. The angelic army will sense you.” Hooking his fingers under my arms, Cassius drags me to my feet and tugs me into the portal.
He releases me immediately, and I fall back to the floor, smacking my chest and chin to the cold concrete ground. I barely have time to turn my head to look as Cassius swings his heavenly sword and cuts off the head of a demon. No, not a demon. It’s an angel who seems to have failed to fall, yet still cut off his own wings in an attempt to do so. And he’s guarding Elias as Vincent stands behind him with a fiery blade to his throat.
“Elias,” I whisper, my voice rasping with my pain.
The whisper of my voice catches Elias’s attention, and he jerks his gaze to mine, pulling his head up more instead of letting Vincent hold him by the hair.
“Raven, no.” Elias frowns with his words, desperation and fear crossing his features. “You shouldn’t be here. You have to go. Hurry.”
“Come any closer, and I will take his head and hide it, where you can never find him. He’s been deemed an abomination, and it’s not welcome in Heaven nor in Hell. I will see to it myself that he and the devils never have control again.” Vincent leers at me, flashing a mouth full of fangs. Fire lights his eyes, and I remember the moment he killed me. It sends an overwhelming wave of fury through my body, and I manage to push up on my hands and knees.
I want nothing more than to kill him. I don’t want to send him to Hell. I just want him to never exist again. But I’m not capable of doing as much.
“Release my brother.” Cassius doesn’t wait and blasts heavenly light at Vincent, knocking him back.
I don’t know if the demon expected us to freeze or to beg him to stop, but Cassius isn’t dealing with demons. His rage is enough to match Kase’s wrath, and he somehow gives me the strength to get to my feet.
This is it. This is the moment we’ve been planning for. The angelic army underestimated us. They thought they could keep Elias from us and torture him by giving them to Vincent, but they were wrong.
I will end them. I will end all of this.
Stumbling forward, I rush towards Elias and go behind him, catching sight of the fiery chains binding him.
“Raven, stop. Don’t touch them.” Elias tries to jerk away for me, but it’s too late.
The second my hands touch the fiery bindings, the world shifts. I scream as my stomach drops, and I freefall in a strange world of light and dark. The binding wasn’t only holding Elias to the chair. They were tethering him to the demented prison world.
Without that tether, we fall through the realms.
I can’t see Elias anywhere. Cassius disappears as well.
I’m alone, out of control, and unable to do anything.
“Raven!” Elias yells, his voice ringing through the air.
But I can’t respond.
Silence soon follows.
I feel nothing.
Chapter 27
RAVEN
Broken
“RAVEN, I GOT you. Hold on tight.” Elias’s voice rings in my ears, and the familiarity of his arms engulfs me, grabbing me from the strange world I free fall in. The nothingness unsettles me on a deep-seated level, and I feel hopelessly trapped. “I’m sorry. I’m so sorry for all of this.”
I try to open my mouth to speak, but my words don’t come. I feel as if I am everything and nothing at once. I also feel as if I am complete. It’s bizarre yet comforting, and I think it has to do with Elias’s soul entangling with mine. We don’t have physical forms in this strange place. He’s pure light as am I. But then, I feel a beautiful chain of darkness wrapping around us and slowing us down. The tether yanks us from the spiritual realm, and I cling on tight to Elias with my very being as the world shifts.
