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Bloodlust boiled in my veins, temporarily replacing my carnal lust for my mates.

A war cry tore from my throat.

I twirled my twin swords, my fingers itching for violence. Hellfire whooshed onto the blades, hissing, looking for prey.

On the other side of the room, Loki and his dukes battled Lucifer to hold him back, trying to buy me time to flee.

“Run, Celeste!” Loki shouted.

“There’s nowhere to run in Hell, cousin,” I said. “I thought you knew that. Let’s just fucking end this.”

Reeling, Lucifer hacked his black sword left and right at his son and the dukes, like a great serpent trying to throw off a pack of coyotes. Loki was still holding his ground, but the dukes had all been wounded within a minute.

They needed my help.

Paxton nodded at me. He always trusted my abilities and never held me back.

“Stay alive, Buttercup. We have unfinished business,” he said, his violet eyes flashing both heat and battle frenzy.

“And I look forward to giving it a final fine touch,” I promised back.

We divided. He charged toward Ares with his ice power, joining his cousins to besiege the war god.

I stalked to Lucifer, gave the dukes a pointed look, and thrust my chin at the archdemons and their demon army that had just flooded into the room. The dukes peeled off and engaged the demons while I took their place beside their prince.

After giving his black fur a good shake, my hellhound leapt in the air, his fangs locking into the throat of a yellow-horned demon.

“To Icy Dagger!” Lisa called from outside my quarters and hurried in, tossing spells at the demons nearest the door.

“To Princess Icy Dagger!” Our half-blood classmates and some mages shouted and joined the battle.

Everyone in Hell was terrified of Lucifer, yet my friends in Hell’s Academy still threw their lot in with me, choosing to die for me.

I hadn’t thought I’d find this kind of loyalty in Hell, and my heart warmed.

Rocks kept plummeting from the ceiling. And now they twirled through the room like an asteroid belt under the influence of all sorts of force fields erected by different combatants.

Carefully avoiding the paths of the rocks, Loki and I flanked and charged Lucifer in sync.

The fallen archangel fended off us easily. He was one of the most ancient creatures in the universe, and he’d been living, breathing, and shitting on the battlefield for eons. Loki and I were atoms compared to him. We weren’t even fetuses.

Yet Loki and I managed to latch onto him. As soon as he threw us off, we got up and charged him again like two too-stubborn bulldogs.

Our blades crossed with Lucifer’s in different arcs and angles. I even booted the devil in the knees twice, but poor Loki got punched in the nose once and glared at me. I blamed his father for ducking too fast.

After a few bouts, Lucifer had given us more slices on our skin than we’d graced the fucker with, but we still didn’t retreat. I shouted encouragement at Loki and threw insults at Lucifer until both of them yelled for me to shut up.

“Which side are you on, Loki?” I barked, driving one of my swords toward Lucifer’s tendon and the other to his waist so Loki could hack at the top of the devil’s torso. I expected him to give Lucifer’s throat a nice, deep cut.

“Your amateur pep talk is annoying,” Loki sneered, swinging his blade toward Lucifer’s armpit. “You keep forgetting who the pro is here.”

Lucifer spun like a dark, vicious wind and deflected our assaults with his twin swords.

“Loki, why the fuck did you choose to aim the tip of your dagger at the devil’s armpit?” It caused my good moves to be wasted. “It isn’t like it smells good or something. I gave you an opening to cut his upper torso and above. You should stab him in the eye or run your blade through the hollow of his throat!”

Loki snickered. “You think it’s that easy to get my blade close to the hollow of his throat? I didn’t see you succeed in running your very long sword through his guts either, even though his belly is much broader than his neck.”

My face reddened in anger. “This isn’t going to work if you don’t know how to work with me. When I go low, you should go high. And then you should distract and engage him long enough for me to sneak to his blindside and stab him in the back.”


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