by G. Bailey
“Evie,” he sighs in relief and shock, pulling me into his arms, and I gladly hold him back. I place my hand on his cheek, calling my healing rune to fix all the cuts I can feel throughout him as he tries to explain what is going on when the building shakes suddenly and my eyes must widen.
“The Protectors’ city has fallen. The city is evacuating as Cex brought an army with him to destroy us. Trex and Connor are helping the people escape with the keepers. Azi and the guards are fighting off the demons to buy the others some time. My job was to get Star, though I can’t find her. We were going to wait for you as we couldn’t get in the room you jumped into,” Nix says, looking less than impressed.
“I may have taken at least half of the black magic that Cex was taking to stop him. I don’t know what the cost of that will be yet, but he cannot do what he wanted without killing me now. We need to leave and get as far away as possible,” I explain, rubbing my arms.
“We leave then, where is Star?” he asks, and I search my bond with her, only sensing a general feel for where she is.
“Come on,” I say, moving my hand away and running out of the door with Nix close. I open a portal to where I think she is and jump through, coming out into a battle field inside an unfamiliar building. I spot Star straight away as she jumps on a demon, ripping out its neck, and Trex is right behind her, two swords in his hands as he kills demon after demon in an effortless movement from one to the other. They are working as a team, slaying them all. Two demons run at us while we are distracted, and Nix hands me a dagger before he jumps for the one as I go for the other. My dagger finds the yellow demon’s heart perfectly as it tries to claw at me, and it bursts into flames. I fall to the floor, rolling as I land. As I stand up, I look around at all the demons here and see that all of them have dark yellow skin and are throwing yellow fire around like it’s a bonfire or some shit. They are unfamiliar to me. I don’t even know what yellow demons are meant to do.
“Evie!” I hear Azi shout, and I turn around to see him running over to me just as a burning sensation fills my stomach. My hands start to feel like they are suddenly burning, and I look down, seeing them glowing a swirling dark red. I feel the power building up in my chest, spreading to my hands, and I know it’s going to escape soon.
“Everyone! Get down!” I scream before I wrap my hands around my waist as a burst of red, uncontrollable energy blasts out of me. I collapse to my knees, hearing the screams of demons and my men calling my name, but I have no voice to reply to them. The last thing I see is Azi running through the red energy like it can’t touch him and his lips calling my name.
Cex
I swim out of the water, growling that I missed that stupid queen by only a small distance, knowing that I made a mistake leaving her alive. The black magic spreads through my body, powering me and furthering my stolen angel abilities, but it is not enough. The queen took at least half of the black magic from this place, and I cannot do what I need to until I have it all. But I will destroy her city and her people before taking her life to get the rest of the black magic back.
I jump out of the room into the room above, seeing it empty except for one person. Erica runs over to me, wrapping her tiny arms around my waist. I pick her up by her neck, loving how she holds my hands desperately and pleads for her pointless life.
“I can help you find Evie. I can help you still, and we can rule together,” she chokes out, barely understandable.
“I should thank your sister, really. I was getting tired of pretending to care for you, pretending to enjoy fucking you,” I tell her. Erica is very annoying, but thankfully I do not need her anymore.
“If you kill me, you won’t find her,” she says, gasping and clawing at my hands.
“Don’t try to manipulate the master of manipulation, girl. See, I am Evie’s knight, and that means I can always feel where she is. No matter where the queen runs, her knight will follow. I will destroy her, and the Protectors will be no more,” I inform her and call my black magic to the surface. The red fire burns a screaming Erica away slowly, and nothing but pain and regret flash in her eyes as I turn her into nothing but dust. Everything around me falls away until I can see the bright sun in the sky above me as I lower my hand. I laugh at the destruction around me, the demons my brother created for me killing anything in their path. At least my brother did one thing before he betrayed me by helping Azi escape, and I had to kill him. Then I killed all my brothers, just in case, except for Azi and Seth, but I will finish them. When the queen is dead, they are next on my list. I step forward through the dust of the building and enjoy the screaming around me. When this is over, I will enjoy the screams of Earth as it becomes Hell.
Thank you so much for reading Runes of Black Magic. A big thank you to Helayna, Mads, Cora and everyone that supported me with this book!
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The final book, Runes of Royalty, will be out in the next few months.
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Also by G. Bailey
Her Guardians Series (Complete)-
Winter’s Guardian (Book one)
Winter’s Kiss (Book two)
Winter’s Promise (Book three)
Winter’s War (Book Four)
Box set with bonus epilogue scenes (Book One)
Her Fate Series-
(Her Guardians Series spinoff)
Adelaide’s Fate (Book One)
Adelaide’s Trust (Coming Soon)
Saved by Pirates Series (Complete)-
Escape the sea (Book One)
Love the sea (Book Two)
Save the Sea (Book Three)
One Night Series-
Strip for Me (Book one)
The Marked Series (Co-written with Cece Rose)-
Marked by Power (Book one)
Marked by Pain (Book two)
Marked by Destruction (Book Three)
The Forest Pack series-
Run Little Wolf- (Book One)
Run Little Bear- (Book Two)
Run Little Prince (Coming Soon)
Run Little Beauty (Coming Soon)
Protected by Dragons series-
Wings of Ice (Book One)
Wings of Fire (Book Two)
Wings of Spirit (Book Three)
Wings of Fate (Book Four)
Wings of Dragca (Book Five)
A Demon’s Fall Series-
Runes of Truth (Book One)
Runes of Mortality (Book Two)
Runes of Black Magic (Book Three)
Runes of Royalty (Coming Soon)
From the Stars-
True Light (Book One)
Dark Soul (Book Two)
Shadow Kiss (Coming Soon)
The King Brothers Series-
Secret (Book One)
Chance (Book Two)
Past (Book Three)
Fall (Book Four)
Revenge (Coming September)
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