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My glamour dropped.

The backdrop of a dark abyss shifted back, replacing the dreamy fairyland.

The reality was as gritty as it could get.

“It’s only me and all me—Marigold.” I winked at the devil. “Mom suggested I bring you to her. She’d love to catch up with you since you owe her the powers you stole from her. I hope she’ll be as friendly as I am toward you. But then, you probably know Lilith better than me—she never forgives and never forgets.”

“You bitch—” Lucifer screamed, thrusting his claws toward my heart.

I ducked, showing him my real speed, and backhanded him twice in the face.

It wouldn’t leave any angry fingerprints, though. He was the devil.

He swung his arm at me but just then the gravity of the Void, which no one but a native like me could resist for long, pulled him into its embracing pit.

I smirked at Loki, and he stared back at me in tears.

“Your dad is such a douche,” I said. “I had to teach him a lesson.”

He laughed. “That was the best show and finest illusion I’ve ever seen in my life.”

“You sent me Esme/Vi, and she gave me the power of glamour.”

He nodded and swallowed.

“We made it, Celeste. We fucking made it.”

He had made it, and I had lost everything except victory over my immortal enemies.

Tears streamed down my sooty face.

Soon, I would have to part with my mates again.

I had dragged both the devil and the god into the Void. Neither of them could escape, but I needed to take an extra safety precaution and seal the portal.

I hadn’t known how to open it, but as I’d seen how Loki had done it, my magic had learned the trick. I could seal it, and not even Loki could re-open it.

I wouldn’t let my mates follow me into the Void and be trapped there forever.

“Tell my mates I’ll find a way return to them,” I said, still teary.

When I came back to them, I’d travel to the death realm for Zak, just as my demigods had tried to bring me back when they thought I had passed over the veil to the afterlife.

“May we meet again, little sis,” Loki said.

“You’re the King of Hell now,” I said. “Don’t forget your promise to take care of my friends who fought for us. Let my mates take Lisa and her sister to their Half-Earth. Hell isn’t safe for them.”

“I’ll protect them,” Loki said. “But I’ll respect your wish.”

I twisted the liquid mirror that connected the two realms and closed the portal.

Gravity from the core of the Void sucked me into the spinning tunnel where cold stars wheeled. Pain shattered me and I screamed.

When the force tossed me out into a valley, I doubled over, my fingers digging into the dried grass and dirt, and sobbed.



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