Paige

Paige
Grace, sensing her mistake, took a step back but then stopped.
“Is this how you got more power? Why you switched to using blood magic? You aided the demons?” a voice called from behind us.
“Aggie, Jesus Christ, get the fuck back,” Felnick hissed. He’d left Paige’s family suite, had disregarded Paige’s orders. Even though he did it for the woman he saw as his, he would pay for not listening.
“Ah, sweet Aggie. Come here, dear.”
“So you can drain my powers? Where’s Montana? Where’s Renee?”
Grace didn’t answer, and as Aggie stepped up to my side with Felnick at her back, I caught the tears in her eyes. “Even though they followed you blindly, they didn’t deserve death just so you can darken your soul.”
“Felnick?” Paige snapped low.
“They’re safe. The guards are with them. Michael is there with some shifters. Alma sent me after Aggie.” When Paige nodded, Felnick relaxed a little, until Aggie took another step forward.
“Now isn’t the time to step up, Aggie. I will bury you.” Grace stretched her arms out, lifting her hands, and then black smoke swirled. “I will suck the life right out of you, child.”
“I’d like to see you try,” Aggie clipped.
“Aggie,” Felnick snapped. He wrapped his arms around her to pull her back. She stood on his foot, elbowed him in the ribs, and shot off a beam of white light toward Grace.
“Attack,” Grace yelled.
Mayhem broke out. The demons attacked anyone they were close to. It was time to let my vampire loose. Especially when my dead heart nearly jumped in my throat when Paige bounded over her wolf and charged the demons who’d surrounded a bear shifter.
Jesus, she would be the death of me.



Paige:

As I charged the demons, who were all around a lone bear shifter, fury washed through me. I jumped Nate and raced the bear’s way. Out of the corner of my eye, I caught Asher’s vampire side bursting out of him. A wave of arousal had my nipples hardening, my clit throbbing, and my body humming.
Now isn’t the damn time, body.
In their normal state, my mates turned me into a puddle of desire, but when I saw their monster, it was as if my monster readied my body to take my men. Even in the middle of a fight apparently.
Shaking my head, I pushed off the ground with my feet and landed onto the back of one demon. My arms flung over his enormous hunched shoulders, and I easily slid my claws into his chest. He howled, bucked, and tried to grab me. I locked my legs around his waist and shredded his heart inside his body. The demon dropped to the ground on his knees. I pushed off him, taking his head with me.
I glanced up to see Asher. His green eyes were trained on me, the other demons around the injured bear shifter were on the dirt. All headless. Black blood dripped from Asher’s claws.
He was ferocious and amazing to look at.
“Take him inside for help,” I told Asher.
He snarled at me. “No. Protect Mine.” He wanted to stay at my side.
“Please, Asher.”
A demon got close to him. Asher’s hand snapped out in a blurred movement, and the demon was missing his head.
“No,” he demanded.
“It’s all right, my queen,” Clyde said, appearing out of nowhere. “I’ll take care of the shifter. Keep Asher at your side.”
“Witches,” someone yelled.
“Aggie?” I called, glancing at her, and found her floating in the sky with a bubble surrounding her body as she tried to fight every spell Grace threw at her. Sweat covered her face, worrying me. She could run out of steam before taking Grace down. We had to help.
“They’re with her,” Aggie said through clenched teeth. Felnick stood below Aggie, moving this way and that with his sword raised high and slicing anything that got too close.
“Fuck,” I bit out.
A whimper caught my attention. Nate. I searched around me, knowing he wouldn’t be far, and he wasn’t. Only what I saw had a haze of anger washing over me. A witch stood over him. Her lips moved, spelling him in some way. Yet he still tried to attack; he crawled toward her on his belly.