"Remnant!"Emon roared in my head, I could just make out his gold eyes flashing back at me even as he ran at full pace far from here. The shadows masking my daughter on top of him unraveling, her eyes locking with mine, clutching her pookah tightly to her chest with one arm, and her spear with the other.
Subtly, I shook my head towards her."Don't stop. Don't come back. I'll find you,"I commanded.
"Little umbra—"Emon's voice felt strained, our connection quieting the further he went, the more the iron bore into me.
"Trust me shifter."
"Lucifer's cock!" the female cried and slashed her hand down. "I don't have time for this! Zazion. Hunt down that monster of a cat, send the hell hounds after him if you have to. I can't have the realm of Wrath gaining the upper hand with power like that!"
Hesitating, the handsome red demon gave me one final thoughtful look before stretching out his leathered wings, monstrous compared to his frame before he snapped his tail down and thrusted up into the air. I watched as he banked immediately towards the blurring panther in the distance. I narrowed my eyes on him, the way he just looked at me…
I snapped up when a sharp wail cut off the firedrake’s inferno that was still raging upon the demon army and watched with veiled horror as it thudded to the ground, huffing out its final breath in a smokey plume. A singular orange eye locked onto mine, his final thoughts so easy to see.
Remorse for not being able to protect me.
Slowly my eyes trailed up from the fallen firedrake and stared coldly at the angel who yanked his spear from the beast’s heart, swiping back his auburn hair with an air of annoyance and arrogance.
Despite the sickening nausea from the irons and the rising panic the searing metal created, I rose against them and held the male’s gaze while my flesh burned. "You just made a very grave mistake."
Angry violet eyes suddenly bored into mine, shielding her gloating companion. "I don't respond well to threats, fae. Especially ones made to my angel," she sneered.
I stepped forward against the chains and didn’t flinch when it burned so hot my leg split open, the trail of my blood trickling down my thigh cooling compared to continuous burns. "Nor do I, demon."
She snarled holding my gaze a moment longer before the most gorgeous wings unfurled from her back. Red feathers covered the tops and crest while they slowly faded into black leathered wings on the bottom. "I don't have time for this. The centurion mating frenzy is now out of control thanks to you."
My brows rose. A mating frenzy?
Snapping her fingers, several fierce demons with varying degrees of horns, tails, and wings circled around me. "Place her in more irons and drag her back to our camp," she commanded beforeswooping her wings downward and launching into the sky with her angel following after her.
I turned to watch them but was forcibly yanked back by more chains lashing across my wrists. Snarling, I rounded on the new group of demons, rolling towards one that had a rather pretty andsharpsword on his hip. Wrenching it from his side, I stood again, holding it high over my head, slowly turning in a circle studying every single one that moved in closer.
My hair whipped across my face and I breathed in deep, feeling the deadly calm the weight of a sword in my hand brought me. Cocking a brow at the stunned demons, I grinned darkly. "Who wants to play first?"
Chapter 29
Anguish.
My heart stuttering to a mewling stop in its sorrow.
My feet dragged with each racing stride, screaming at me to turn back.
My soul raged, tearing me to shreds in its fury to reconnect to its better half—especially when that bond went dead.
From the moment I smelled my soulmate's flesh burning with the sting of iron, everything in me fought to go back—to kill the very beings that dared to even look at her, let alone chain her in blood and fire.
Except Riella was our priority, I knew Remnant would have it no other way and so I would suffocate on this pain to ensure our daughter was safe before I prowled back to the demon army to bathe in their blood—becauseI wouldhave it no other way too.
I purredat the thought. I could destroy them all, slaughter them until there was nothing left but their rotting demon carcasses and then I would hunt—eliminating their kind from the fucking pits of hell where they came from. Their blood would be delicious, their deaths sweet, none would survive—
Riella's body trembled against me, still riding low on my racing panther frame bringing my attention back to her.
I blinked slowly. What in the actual goddess fuck was I thinking? My vendetta was against Deirdre, not these pawns…of course I was going to kill whoever dared to touch Remnant but to want to eliminate an entire race, that was dark shit that I frankly didn’t have the time for—exceptsomethinginside of me felt very different about that.
“I must warn you…”Eve’s words whispered from the dark recesses of my mind.
Snarling, I focused on shoving my bleak thoughts away and picked up my pace.“All will be well my cub.”I would goddess damn make sure it was, the soulless sleep and this madness could go fuck itself.
I had once confessed to Jar that first day I knew she was mine that I had no idea how to be a father—but I knew now. It could not have been more clear than in this very moment.
