Chapter 56 He Tore The Sky

SERAPHINA

bThe /bsuddenpliment took me off bguard/b.

It was not the first time someone bhad /bbcalled /bme bbeautiful/b. But bright /bnow I was disguised as a man. So, another man calling me beautiful at this moment bwas /bnothing but a threat to bmy /bdisguise.

What an unexpected thing to say in this kind of situation,” I let out a small casualugh, bnever /btearing my eyes away from him.

Asher bfinally /bblinked, realizing what he’d just said. I was not sure if it was due to awkwardness or regret, his ears bhad /bturned red and he squeezed himself out of the narrow space, “I must have lost my mind,” he murmured embarrassed. “Sorry, that came out wrong.” he refused to meet my gaze.

I also came out, sighing deep in my heart. “It’s okay. I get it alot because I look like my mother. Not my father, I inherited her beauty,” I casually stated.

Asher finally lifted his gaze to meet mine band /bthis time his expression was not shy or embarrassed but there was something else. What bwas /bit?

I bcasually /blooked baway /band nced around. “They are gone. But they might return once they realize we are hiding.”

Asher murmured, “They are already returning.”

My eyes widened. “Then now what? Is there no bway /bto get out of here?”

“No,” he admitted through gritted teeth. “There bisn’t/b. Not unless ”

“Unless?”

He crouched low, fingers sweeping across the slick cave bfloor/b. This stuff… It’s bat guano.”

“bBat /bguano?”

“Bat shit,” bhe /bsaid simply, smearing some on his bpalm/b. “This entire bdamn /bcave is covered in it. It’s full of ammonium nitrate.

That means.

My eyes glinted realizing what information he has been bhedging /bat. “It burns!”

He smirked, “bYeah/bb./bb” /b

Smirking cooly when the bvampires /bcharged our way was so like Asher. But we needed to be bquick /band he already was on his feet, “We bjust /bneed ba /bspark.”

My mind raced. There are stones bthat /bwe can use,” I rushed to grab the stones from the ground.

Asher ripped the iron pendant from around his neck, the bedges /bsharp. Then, dragging ba /bjagged piece of stone from the bfloor/b, I put it in front of bhim /bas he mmed the two btogether/b.

Spark

Nothing

Spark Spark.

I held my breath, bmy /beyes going to the darkness where Phina sensed the bvampires/b. “Asher they are o

Asher gritted his teeth giving his everything as the next a small me tickered.

Weak, but alive. Yes, fually I nced at the darkness again. “They are close!”

Les back, he instructed me I quickly took a few steps back bas /bba /bpair of red eyes rushed from the darkness towards us.

Ashhurled the bguano /btoward the dampest, filthiest part of the cave. The fire didn’t just catch–it exploded in a sudden

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burst of orange and ck, racing across the bwalls /bbwith /ba bhiss /blike boiling oil. The ammonia–infused floor lit up in a wave of fire, snaking toward the cave’s entrance.

bThe /bshrieks of the vampires turned to bwails/b. Even better, the vampires could note to our side. They could not cross the bridge of fire.

1 flinched as bthe /bsmoke hit my eyes, bchoking /bband /bblinding me. But bthe /bbfire /bbburned /bhot. Too bhot/b. The bair /bshimmered. The guano acted like oil, feeding the bme /bin waves. The vampires, already sensitive to heat and light, violently recoiled. screeching in agony as the fire reached them.

This scene alone was shocking. But it was our chancel “Asher, let’s go back to the tunnel and get out of here.”

Since it was bthe /bonly exit and the vampires would not be able to chase after us bthanks /bto the fire we would have ba /bchance to remove the stones blocking the tunnel and escape.

“Great n bbut /bI don’t think I can apany you!

“Why?”

Just as I basked/b, one of the bats tried to crawl past the mes.

Asher snarled band /bhurled a sharp stone at its throat, silencing it. I gasped. “Can they..”

“Not all of them are afraid of fire or death. Some are brave,” he nced my way in meaning. “So now, I am afraid bthat /byou have to bgo /bdown the btunnel /balone and open it.”

“What? I can’t leave you

alonel

“One of us has to be here to stop them,” he groaned, killing another bat. “You have to be the one to op

open the tunnel and give me a signal. I promise I will meet you bthere /balive,” he nced at me, saying that with a long look deep in my eyes. “Now both of our lives are bin /byour hands.”

I clenched my fists. I still did not wish to leave Asher alone here to die but it was not the time to be emotional. We both could die. I immediately turned around and started running down the tunnel.

I bnced /bback once, just once, to see the vampires hissing bbehind /bthe firewall, their fangs glinting like knives. But they didn’t cross it However, it did not mean they were not trying to break throughb. /b“They could not be kept at bay forever!”

I ran fasterb. /b

Heart pounding, lungs on fire, I tore through the cave toward bthe /btunnel where we’d once seen sunlight. If I could just remove some bstones/b–bjust /bbone/b–then Asher and I could escape before the bfire /bdied, before the bats descended again.

But as soon as I rounded the bbend/b, I froze.

A bpair /bof red beyes /bandrge bfangs /bgreeted, “So I was not bwrong/b,” the vampire bfrom /bthe earlier grinned. “It’s really a she–bwolf /bin disguise”

My heart dropped in my bstomach/b. He had been waiting.

He knew we woulde back.

And he had no intention of letting us leave.

His bws /bgleamed like obsidian des. Blood red eyes watched bme /bbwith /bchilling bstillness/b.

I btook /ba slow, capnous step back.

He mirrored it with one forward.

“Let us bgo/b. We are not here to disturb you. We will leave quietly. I decided to take a peaceful path with him even though 1

Is this some kind of joke?” He bchuckled/b, his eyes glowing red. The silence between us was brutal. I could hear the bcrackling /but le far behind me. I could feel Asher fighting to keep the mes alive

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I didn’t have time.

bBut /bthis vampire, he had all the time in the world.

“After all these years, I bam /bgoing to taste delicious female blood and you want to leave quietly?” he hungrily licked his lips before smiling so evilly bthat /bit sent chills down my spine, “bYou /bare never leaving here.”

My fists clenched and I took a few more steps back realizing his ill intentions. I bhad /bnever fought a vampire before. I didn’t bknow /bif I would survive. But I had no choice.

If I didn’t kill him, he’d kill me. Even worse, he’d go for Asher next.

I took my bstance /ball ready to shift if need be and set my sights on him. “Stop

He smiled. A slow, sinister curl of lips that promised pain.

Then he lunged.

I met bhim /bhead–on.

ime /iif yo

you can.”

ws racked against knuckles. bFang /bagainst will. The cave echoed with the force of our impending collision, I knew bthis /bwas olliit. /li/ol

One of us would not walk away. I gave control over to Phina and bjust /bas I was about to shift the world rumbled.

An explosion took ce leaving me deaf. A st of air and dust so powerful it knocked both of us off our feet

BOOM!

The roof above us erupted in a deafening storm of stone and bsunlight/b.

A violent shaft of golden light crashed through the ceiling–blinding, searing, divine.

As it happened bthe /bvampire screamed. I froze, my eyes widening at the sight of the vampire screaming as if his life was being stuck our of his mouth.

It was the first andst sound he made. Sunlight devoured him like fire meeting dry leaves. bHis /bskin blistered and ckened. His body crumpled band /bcurled as smoke poured from his shrieking form. Within seconds, there was nothing left but ash swirling in the hot lightb./b”

I was frozen in ce, gasping, unable to believe what I bhad /bjust seen.

And then…I felt it..

A presence.

I slowly lifted my gaze to the gapingrge hole in the cave ceiling.

And bsaw /bhimb. /b

Ronan. My heart skipped a beat.

Standing at the edge of the newly tom rool, violet eyes blocked /bon mine like I was the only thing left in the world. His chest rose with the force of his breathing. His shirt bwas /btorn. His hands were bloodied from bwing /bthrough stone.

“He did this,” Plina whispered in my mind as bI /bwatched him jump down without bblinking/b.

Hended blike /ba storm before me

ut a word, he strode closer to bme /band then pulled me into bhis /barm

Strong Warm. Desperate

I gasped as my chest bumped into his hard yet warm one as he whispered into my ear. “Did they touch you?”

My heart skipped a be He sure the sky for me