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“I’m going to rip your face off for that,” I grind out, wishing I could tear the dark leader limb from limb. He’s so fucking close, if this damn shield wasn’t in the way I’d tear him to shreds with my bare hands.
Liv fights through a swarm of demons, her shadows unleashing themselves and decimating them in a cloud of dark smoke. I suck in a sharp breath at the fury that blazes in the eyes of the woman I love as she leaves nothing in her wake, their bones sucked into the abyss.
“I’m going to kill you,” Olivia screams as she hurtles herself towards Romulus.
“Olivia, no!” I bellow, needing her to be alright—needing her to be safe and outside of this cage.
She’s there in a blink of an eye though, but like what happened to me, Romulus careens to the side at the last second, skidding across the floor and leaving the entrance to the makeshift jail wide open.
“No!” I shout in terror as Olivia tries to stop herself in time. I reach out my palms against the barrier ready to push her back, to stop her from suffering my same fate, but she’s jerked back at the last second. Her fingertips are mere inches from me as Mateo wraps his arms around her waist and tugs her back.
“Well that was no fun,” Romulus sighs as he pulls himself back up to his feet and snaps his fingers. A silver gleam flashes over the barrier, and I can only imagine he’s sealed whatever spell he used to trap me here in place. “I was hoping to get two for the price of one. Oh well.”
“Olivia,” Osias shouts, his voice too far away for him to be of any help right now.
Mateo lets Olivia go and turns on Romulus just as a silent wind swirls around him.
“I don’t think so,” Mateo shouts as Romulus’ body is about to break apart. His hand clamps around Romulus’ arm as he dissipates away, following Romulus wherever he’s about to go.
“Mateo!” Olivia screams as she rushes forward but she’s too late. Both of them are already gone, without a trace of where they might be.
“You have to get out of here, Liv,” I growl, needing her to focus. “It’s all a trap, we’ve been betrayed.”
“I’m not going anywhere without you,” she shouts, and stomps back to the invisible wall that separates us.
“No,” I snap as she places her hands on the barrier, but she doesn’t sink through, not after Romulus sealed it. Her brows furrow as beams of light and streams of black smoke burst from her chest and slam into the shield.
I suck in a sharp breath and watch my mate in complete awe of the power she holds. Her breaths come in ragged pants and she closes her eyes as she pushes and pushes her power into it, but it’s no use. I place my hands against hers, hating the distance between our palms. Pain slices through my chest as I watch a tear roll down her cheek, wishing I could feel the warmth from her hands against mine.
“Olivia.” Her eyes snap at the sound of my voice, her sea-green orbs shining with tears. “It’s going to be okay.”
“I can get you out,” she pleads, her voice ragged from the sob she’s holding back. “Just a little more—”
“Olivia, please.” My heart breaks as I watch my mate crack. “I need to know that you’re safe.
“Not until I get you out,” she grinds out, teeth gritted as her power streams from her in waves, sinking into the barrier but not breaking it.
“I don’t think you can, princess,” I admit, sucking in a sharp breath. “I’ll be fine here but you need to—”
“Liv,” Adrian shouts, his arms banding around her waist as he pulls her back from the invisible wall.
“No!” she screams, thrashing in his arms as she attempts to get back to me. Her power sinks back into her skin and I sigh a breath of relief that she won’t burn herself out.
“Get her out of here, Adrian,” I bellow, pushing down the soul-crushing pain that radiates through my chest at the thought of her being so far from me.
“I’m not going anywhere,” she shouts, wrenching herself from his grip. She sprints back to me, her hands pounding on the wall that separates us as she sinks to her knees. I follow her down, needing to make sure she’s okay, to be as close to her as I can, to do anything I can to help take some of that pain away.
“We’ve cleared the cave,” Osias says as he skids to a stop at the edge of the barrier. “What’s happened?”
I shift my focus to the rest of the cave for just a moment before my eyes are back on Liv, only now noticing the bodies littering the cave floor behind us as our soldiers detain anyone they still can. I hadn’t even realized the sounds of battle had died out after Romulus left.
“It was all a trap,” I say, placing a hand against the barrier, as a tear rolls down Liv’s cheek. I grit my teeth, wishing I could wipe it away as Adrian sits on the ground beside her, wrapping his arms around her and giving her the strength and support she needs.
“Romulus trapped him in here, and if it wasn’t for Mateo, I would’ve fallen for his tricks too,” Olivia murmurs. Her eyes widen as she looks around. “Mateo—he dissipated with Romulus!”
“I’ll send word to Ethereal and the academy to stay vigilant for both of them,” Osias says, already sending a note off as the parchment vanishes in a cloud of white smoke.
“Olivia, Max,” Kyros shouts as he rushes over to us, his eyes wide as though he’s trying to piece together what exactly happened here. I can tell he’s figured it out though when his jaw tenses, apparently only needing the context clues to get up to date.
