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Shit.
I’m in so much trouble.
Two more steps back and I’m in the middle of the intersection. I don’t waste a second and bolt left, tearing down the slick corridor, grateful for the treads on my new shoes.
I look over my shoulder and see the incubus is in hot pursuit. I try to kick it into high gear, but I’m jerked off my feet when his hand wraps in my hair. I slam down onto my back which knocks the air from my lungs and the incubus straddles me.
His hand comes to my face where he grips it hard, and the minute his skin touches mine, my body arcs up as a bolt of searing lust pulses through me.
“Please,” I whisper as tears leak from my eyes. Not to let me go, but to touch me.
“I’ll give it to you, little snack,” the fae growls and then bends to kiss me.
I close my eyes and try to jerk my head to the side, even though my body tells me to capitulate. I feel his breath on me, and I know I’m about to die… for a second time.
And then… he’s gone.
I lift my head to find the incubus lying twenty feet away, and booted feet stride by me.
Black wings trail behind, and I scramble up as Amell walks toward the incubus.
The fae rolls to his knees and cowers, exclaiming, “I didn’t know. I didn’t know.”
“You knew,” Amell snarls as he grabs him by the arm and hauls him up.
Knew what?
About me?
“I swear I didn’t, Your Majesty. Please.”
With no effort whatsoever, Amell pulls the incubus toward me. Even though the fae is almost as large as Amell, he’s powerless against the king’s hold.
Amell holds out his hand, and I don’t think twice.
I take it.
And then everything turns black, and I feel like I’m spinning and falling and then… everything is straight and I can see I’m standing on the Bridge of Judgment with the Crimson River churning below.
I barely have time to understand where we are before Amell casually pushes the incubus off. His screams get fainter the farther he falls until I hear the splash into the river and the ground shakes.
“Thank you,” I sigh, feeling safe for the first time.
“Don’t thank me,” Amell snarls as he grips me by the back of my neck and drags me to the edge. “You’re next.”
CHAPTER 11
Amell
Acidic rage burnswithin, all directed at the incubus who was on top of Nyssa, about to devour her from the inside out. But when I tossed him over the edge, my fury didn’t abate, and I realized Nyssa putting herself in danger angered me even more.
“You were in an area of the castle you were forbidden to be,” I growl as I hold her by her neck.
Nyssa jerks and twists, attempting to escape my clutches. Her feet dig hard against the stone, trying to push back against my strength, but it’s futile.
I try to force some measure of calm into myself. Had Nyssa died—which she most assuredly would have when that incubus was done with her as they suck your life force dry through sex—her soul would have gone straight into the Crimson River. There are no further chances in the Underworld for a human if you die here a second time. It would’ve happened immediately and without me even knowing. There wouldn’t have been time to save her, and that’s why I’m so fucking pissed.
Stupid, ignorant mortals.
