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“Keep doing whatever you’re doing,” Adrian says.
“I don’t know what I’m doing,” I say.
A bang hits the door and Sadie yelps. I look over at her. She’s standing in front of the door, her hands stretched out toward it. She’s doing whatever she can to keep the door secure.
We don’t have much time. “Adrian, do the binding spell. Hurry.”
“Okay,” he says.
His dark magic swirls around us, wrapping my mates in a circle of blue light. I have to turn away from it as it glows brighter. My magic weaves together with the magic from my mates and as the fibers combine, I can feel where each of them contributed. I can feel Damon, Corbin, Adrian, and Liam. All their magic leaving a unique signature.
An explosion sounds and Adrian drops the spell. I have no idea if he finished it but there’s no time for words.
The king walks into the room, dark clouds flowing around him roll into the room.
Sadie charges him, sending vines toward him. The king bats her away as if she’s an insect and Sadie falls to the ground.
“Sadie!” I run to her.
She sits up and rubs her head. “I’m okay, Harper. Do me a favor and kick his ass?”
I smile. “Gladly.”
“You threw Heaven’s Light at me and I’m still standing,” the king says. “What makes you think you have any chance at defeating me?”
He lifts his hand and rocks fall from the ceiling. I cover my head. When the pounding sound stops and the dust clears, I look around. There’s a wall between me and my mates. He’s closed me off from them again.
He’s afraid of them but he’s not afraid of me. He thinks I’ll go down easier.
Heat rises in my chest as anger takes hold. I refuse to go down. I refuse to let him win.
Magic flows through me at an intensity I haven’t felt before. It’s not just my magic, it’s the magic of all my mates.
Whatever we did, it doesn’t feel like they took my magic. If anything, I feel like I have theirs.
I approach the king, letting the power roll through me. When I stop in front of him, I reach up and pull on the pendant. It snaps and I toss it to the ground.
I’m done running. I’m done being afraid.
It’s his turn to feel some of what he’s given to others. I hesitate, though. This horrible man is the only father Liam has ever known.
In that moment, the king throws a fiery lasso at me. It wraps around my waist and I’m pulled toward him.
I grab hold of the lasso and channel some of Adrian’s dark magic, sending it to the fiery rope.
The flame extinguishes and turns to soot.
“It’s time for you to leave.” I lift my hands and recall the feel of the magic he’d left behind after sending my friends away.
With all the power of my mates behind me, I throw everything I have at him. Magic crashes into him like thunder and a flash of light follows. I can feel him in my power. He struggles, trying to throw magic at me. But I’m stronger now.
I concentrate, thinking about the place the monsters come from. Because that’s what he is, a monster.
A crack splits down the middle of the stone floor and I leap to one side to keep from falling in.
There’s a dark pit in the ground. An empty abyss that seems to go on forever. Using all of my strength, I pull on the king, dragging him to the hole.
He struggles and sparks fly but I keep my hold.
Sweat drips down my face and I’m feeling dizzy but I fight. Breathing heavy, muscles screaming from exhaustion, I manage to pull him over the pit.
Then I release the magic and fall to the floor.
I crawl to the edge of the pit and peek down in time to see the king falling until his body is gone from view.
Behind me, the stone wall he summoned begins to crumble. I manage to stay conscious long enough to see my mates climbing through the rubble.
Then everything goes black.
