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“You are home,” the Queen of the Underworld said, her icy hand cupping my cheek.
Her power tore into me, trying to sear a path to my mind. Her touch conjured an unfamiliar longing, almost as if I was looking for a maternal figure.
A mother.
At that moment, I wanted to please her more than anyone else, yet I bit my tongue. I just couldn’t let her know about Sy, or she’d take Sy away from me, as powerful as she was. This was her territory.
I flung out my core magic by pure instinct. It rose from ashes and embers. With one precise slash, it severed the nearly complete connection between the queen and my mind.
Queen Lilith jerked her hand back as if burned.
“Why? How?” she demanded, menacing light glinting in her darkened green eyes.
Come back to me, little scorpion! a rich, familiar voice boomed in my head, making me shiver with longing.
Should I answer him?
Answer him! Sy said. Let’s go to him and get a good lay.
I felt a warm mouth pressed to mine, full of carnal need. I blinked to find Queen Lilith staring at me furiously, her long golden hair flowing wildly in the phantom wind.
What the fuck was going on?
But I liked being kissed like that.
Killian is kissing your real lips, dummy, Sy said. Feed on the energy he gives you and get the hell out of here.
It dawned on me that while my mind had been taken here, Sy stayed with my real body. That was why I hadn’t felt her until she came running and joined me here. While I was lost, she guarded me.
Killian’s kiss deepened, and I parted my eager lips for him. The chaos prince thrust his possessive tongue between them, pouring his lust energy into me, purer and more potent than ambrosia.
A primal hunger in me swirled to life, although I felt torn for betraying the queen. But it couldn’t be helped, could it?
The chaos heir lavished more of his power into our kiss. With each stroke of his tongue, I remembered him and us a bit more. My desire to go back to him overwhelmed me.
“Who’s with you?” the queen demanded. Her dark power struck me.
But the shield forged by the combined powers of Killian and me held.
Shit!
Now everything flooded back to me. Killian was her betrothed, and I was the other woman!
I needed to get the fuck out of here before shit hit the fan.
“Uh, I’d love to chat more, but I gotta go.” I fumbled for excuses. “Kind of busy.”
“No one departs my realm unless I allow it!” she spat icily. “No one has ever succeeded, child!”
I waved at the furious Queen of the Underworld. “Sorry. Ciao.”
My dark flame burned the tendrils of shadow power that had pinned me in place, and then wild magic from Underhill came to aid me. I shoved the phantom realm of the Underworld away and dove toward the portal Killian’s lightning and starlight had torn open.
“Here I come!” I roared like a sailor.
California! Sy roared with me.
But we’d fled the City of Angels years ago, not only because of the high taxes and bad policies. No angels lived there.
