Wolf Embraced: Book 5 of the Wolf Reborn Series (A New Adult Paranormal shifter romance story) by Sara Snow

Author:Sara Snow [Snow, Sara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-07-22T04:00:00+00:00

13

NATALIE

The Demon King fell to a knee with his skin scorched and holes in his wings. He coughed up blood, which I assumed was blood because it was as black as tar.

But when he held his head up to look at me, he smiled.

His teeth were like nails, and they returned to their normal state when his broken jaw snapped into place. I saw it, the pure evil in him. I saw the same corruption in Cedric, but it had grown over time. This man had been born with it.

He started to chuckle, and it grew into a chorus of joyous laughter mixed with his coughing. He was the happiest man I'd ever seen, but I held my position, my chaos on the tips of my fingers in case he attacked.

“Natalie Blackwood,” he coughed. “Now I understand why you need two mates.” He spat on the ground. "One wouldn't be able to handle you. But a woman like you belongs here, in a realm that honors the kind of power you possess. You feel it, don't you? The more powerful you are, the more power is drawn to you. That’s natural selection.”

“Pass,” I growled, for his voice alone was making my skin crawl. “Be thankful you’re not dead.”

“It’ll take more than that to kill me,” he growled back. Then his wounds started to heal, the skin pulling together, and he winced and looked away.

It looked painful. Good, I thought. He deserved it and worse. This was the man who’d killed the Goddess’s sister, huh? He looked like he was only in his mid-thirties, but he was millennia old like the rest of the Imperium.

As much as he deserved to die, this wasn't his time. Killing him meant starting a war with the Underworld, and we already had too much on our plate. But I wanted to prove a point—that we weren't done for yet. And more importantly, I needed to show him that the power Cedric and I shared was to be feared.

Believing he was untouchable was a sure way to get his people killed—not that these demons needed saving.

Anyone who arrived now wouldn't know we were standing in a library, except for the burned pieces of paper on the ground. The room was utterly destroyed, with the walls ripped apart to reveal a garden outside.

Looking down at my arms, the bruises from earlier were gone. I no longer felt sick and had a sense of clarity that wasn't there before. I could feel it with every breath I took. Like the Demon King just said, there was a power in the air much like in the God Realm, but it seemed so much heavier. In fact, it felt as if it was clinging to me.

I’d wanted to use all that accumulated chaos against Cedric, but it had still served a good purpose. Never in a million years had I thought I’d be going toe-to-toe with the Demon King.

"Do you think you can handle more?" I asked the King as he got to his feet and wiped at his chin.

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