Kasadya Hellhound Twisted (19 page)

My hormones kicked in and I turned him around, pushing him back towards the bed. His legs caught the end and he fell backwards, me following. Oh my soul this was awesome! It felt like every inch of my skin was on fire, but a really freaking good one. I pushed him back and rose up, looking down at him. His lips were puffy from my kiss and I am sure mine were just as swollen. Wow, he was so handsome, why didn’t I see this before?

I grabbed my top and started to lift it up when he stilled my hands. “No, Kas.”

Confused, I looked at him. “What’s wrong?” I asked, shocked that he would stop me. He dragged my hands away from my top and held them, looking at me with a smile.

“This is not how it should be,” he answered. What? Was I doing something wrong? I mean, I’d seen a lot of movies, and I am sure this is how it works. I felt the red embarrassment slam into my cheeks. “Kas, stop. I can see what you are thinking. You didn’t do anything wrong, trust me. But when something like this happens it must be … real and about love,” he said, grabbing hold of my face and forcing me to look at him.

OMG! What he just said slammed into me like a punch to the gut. I just freaking threw myself at him! I was off the bed and out the door before he could even get a word out. I stormed down the hall and ran smack into someone, knocking them into the wall. “Crap, sorry,” I snapped and grabbed whoever it was to try and get them back up.

“Kasadya?” Chax asked and I was left open-mouth and utterly freaking dumb looking at him.

“Kas, wait,” Max said, stopping behind me. Oh hell! I turned completely red from head to toe, when Chax looked at him and then at me, a very disapproving scowl taking place on his face.

There was a very awkward silence for what felt like an hour. Chax’s eyes were all over me. And I realised that I hadn’t pulled my top down, that it was still just under my breast. I was about to freaking combust from that look he had. Finally his eyes moved to Max and that’s when I saw the huge reason why I’d lied in the first place. I looked at Max, and hell yeah, they just sized each other up and were both furious. “You question my intentions, yet look at yours,” Chax sneered out. Oh no, no, no, no.

“Guys, wait! Don’t do this,” I tried to intervene, but Max placed his hand on me and pushed me back, stepping up right into the kill zone.

“Nothing happened,” Max growled back.

Chax’s evil smile appeared. “Good, I will not tolerate your weakness in my house, and not around her,” he answered.

A menacing laugh came out of Max. “At least I don’t get my fix by hurting her,” he said to Chax. For about two seconds there was nothing except silence and then wham, the first punch rippled through the air with a sonic sound spiralling down the hall.

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hapter 12

Max was punched straight down the hall, where he ended up smack against the wall. Bracing his hands on the wall, he looked up. I stepped back. He’d just transformed, and flashing red eyes were looking straight back at us. Oh crap!

He stormed forward and I stepped in front of him. I had to stop this now before they killed each other. I was pushed back out of the way as Chax stormed past me. They met in the middle and hit each other full force, the hallway walls cracking under the power. Doors flew open and everyone else stormed outside to see what the hell was happening.

“What in Heaven’s name is going on?” Caim asked as he stopped next to me. I looked up at him but didn’t answer. I needed to stop this. I transformed, ready to battle two very strong males. One whom most likely was going born and the other the strongest I have seen so far. On my first step, I was grabbed from behind as arms locked down around me. I looked back and saw that Caim, now transformed, had me.

“I have to stop this!” I yelled at him.

“If you step in, they are going to hurt you. They need to fight this out, Kas,” Caim replied, holding onto me.

I turned to look back at them. Max ended up inside the wall, his wings trapped, and Chax was hitting him. Oh no, I needed to stop this. “Holy hell, they are going to kill each other,” Lotan said from behind me. My heart was pounding against my ribs, and I was starting to freak out. I fought against Caim, but he was like an octopus wrapped around me and not letting go. Max’s head whipped forward and connected with Chax, sending him backwards, and he followed hitting him. The sound of their punches were shattering, the walls cracking and trembling from it.

“Caim, I have to stop them, we can’t just stand by and watch them kill each other!” I was going out of my mind. Watching them throw each other through the wall, hitting and kicking. And with each blow the tempo picked up rather than calmed down.

“Take it outside, Chax!” Caim yelled. And poof they were gone. Caim let go of me and I shifted to the gate outside.

A roar sounded with my landing, and on my right I watched as Max plowed Chax threw the trees; they splintered with each impact and fell to the earth. Oh my freaking soul! I ran over to where they were still fighting. Chax had turned to the fight and now Max was being drilled into the earth. Almost there, I was slammed to the left as something rammed into me. Confused, I looked around but no one was there. I turned around and found the rest a few yards behind me, heading in my direction.

What the hell just hit me? Shaking it off, I was up again and moving for them. I could see Max kicking Chax in mid-air sending him to the left, and moving to catch up. Again, something slammed into me. I hit a tree, and falling down I braced and stopped on all fours looking for the stupid idiot. Again there was nothing there. Okay, this is just pissing me off. I closed my eyes and let my hellhound sensors find the one hitting me.

There above me, I picked up the idiot, and I looked up to find Nanini smiling down at me. “Dude, it took you long enough,” Nanini answered when I looked at her.

“What are you doing?!” I yelled at her.

“Caim said we need to stop you from getting into the fight, he said you would get hurt. So here I am,” she replied, a smile spreading across her face.

“Don’t make me hurt you,” I growled, and got back up, advancing to the scene still going on. A green light bomb hit me from the right, but this time I took it a lot better. I turned, looking for the owner, and found Ben all serious face, another light bomb in his hands. “Ben, don’t do it,” I warned him. A bomb hit me from the back, and I took a step or two forward. I turned around and looked at Nanini.

“They are going to kill each other, I won’t allow that!” I yelled again.

“Shift her out, Kali,” I heard Caim say and turned just in time to see a feathered fist reach my face. Kali’s punch sent me flying backwards and I landed with a thump. Shaking my head, I got back up but found myself surrounded by bars. What the freaking hell! I flew up and grabbed the bars, shaking them.

“Let me out!” I roared.

“Sorry, Kas,” Kali said to my left, but when I looked she was already gone.

Furious, I roared, the sound echoing through the room. “Kas, calm down,” Amon said. I turned to look at him.

“You have got to let me out. They are going to kill each other because of me!” I tried to reason. A look of sympathy came as my answer. Pissed, I rocked the bars again, and screamed.

“Kas, we have sent some assistance, but sometimes things like this are necessary. I have seen how much tension was between them. This will be a good release,” Amon explained. I tried shifting, but nothing. Touching the bars, I could feel the charm on them.

“Max is going born, and you are talking about tension release? Who do you think is going to kill him?” I was so mad even my wings were trembling from it. What have I done? Damn it, all I do is screw things up, I am so sick of it!

“Kas,” someone else said. I looked up to find Seth standing there. Oh thank you God.

“Seth, you have to help me. Chax and Max are going to kill each other and they locked me up,” I pleaded with him.

He looked at Amon. “I have it. You go help the others,” Seth told him.

Amon nodded and shifted out, leaving us alone. My jaw was hurting real bad from biting down on it. Seth walked over and took up a chair then sat down in front of me. What? My jaw was hanging open. Would they all just stand by and watch this happen? “We have it under control, Kas. Relax,” he said, leaning back into the chair and crossing his arms in front of his chest. 

I always wondered what people meant when they said they were in despair. I saw it in movies, and once I heard a girl at school say it when her friend died in a crash. Never really got it, but now I did. I broke down crying like mad. Hysterical girl crying and everything was pouring out of me. I ended up on a bed and just gave into it.

I heard the door open and next I felt arms around me, and that made it even worse. “It’s going to be okay, Kas. Vulcan won’t let it go that far. We have sent a lot of fallen to help. But you know us guys sometimes just need this,” he soothed me.

“He's going to kill Max, because Max is going born,” I sobbed out. He brushed my hair and rocked me.

“That’s why I came for Amon, as a male spirit fae he will be able to knock him out and save him from his death.” That still didn’t make me feel better; in fact it made me feel worse.

“All of the people I have come to care about are counting on me to do the right thing, and I only end up hurting them,” I cried again.

“That’s not true, Kas. We all make mistakes, it’s part of life. It’s how we learn what a mistake is in the first place to make sure we don’t do it again,” Seth explained.

I shook my head. “You don’t understand. I am messing up real bad. Even my best friend’s life is in danger because I didn’t look out for her.”

“Are you talking about Kali?” I nodded and wiped at my tears. “Why would Kali’s life still be in danger?” Seth asked, confused. I froze. Crap, there I just did it again. I pushed away from him and tried to muster a smile.

“You know our job isn’t a picnic,” I explained casually and shrugged off his question. He looked at me for a moment, his eyes travelling over me.

“You’re not really good with the lying thing you know. So either you can tell me and I will try to help, or I will tell Chax something is up with you two,” he threw back and my jaw was hanging open. What the hell just happened? “I see. Well Chax has his ways with things like this.” He got up and started to walk to the gate.

Is he going to split on me? Oh hell no, I was up and pushed him against the bars before he could even respond. “Don’t! You will so mess up everything,” I growled at him. He looked at me and smiled.

“It’s your choice, Kas. But given that Chax has never been a fan of secret topics behind his back, trust me when I say you’re dead meat,” he finished and shoved me off him. I backed off and looked at him; my despair turned into anger in less than three seconds.

“You wouldn’t,” I dared him.

He shrugged and moved for the gate. Is this like a card game where I had to call his bluff or something? Crap! “Okay, damn it.” I was so freaking pissed at him. He turned around and walked back to the bed, sitting down and looking at me. How to begin this story? “Okay, the day we returned to Exsilium we first had to get Kali back from a demon prince. Gluttire to be exact. And the jerk he is, he placed a charm on Kali that is slowly killing her. If I don’t get some stuff for him as payment to remove the charm, she will die,” I finished and looked at him.

He considered me and waved with his hand for me to continue, in return I looked at him, confused. “What stuff?” he finally asked after shaking his head. So here is the tricky part, I tell him and he goes running to Chax anyway. So basically I am so screwed. Turning around, I looked at the bars and the room beyond them. Just one cell it would seem, with some chairs standing around. Wonder where the hell I am? “Kas, explain,” Seth pushed on, but I didn’t turn to look at him.

“He wants the blood relics as payment,” I finally said once I heard him get up from the bed. He stopped, of course, but I didn’t look at him. Silence followed for what seemed like forever. I didn’t look at him, I just couldn’t.