The Kings Series #2 His Silver Hand novel Chapter 31

He gritted his teeth. No one, no one owned his queen but him. They belong together. Forever.

Wanting to finish the fucker once and for all, he commanded his beast to calm down and promised him retribution soon.

"Give us the children first. We have fulfilled our end of the bargain." Esmeralda demanded, raising her arms.

"Okay, little sister. I have no use for those brats anyway." Ruby clapped her hands and several slaves appeared with the pups.

The powerful priestess immediately took the crying babies, soothing them. "I'll be back, Ruby." She warned before she vanished with her precious cargo.

"Lucifer," the gothic beauty enticed in a sickly sweet voice. They all felt like gagging when she tore the front of her black dress revealing her pale body with generous curves. "Claim me." She beckoned.

"No, bitch. You will never be my queen." Lucifer answered venomously.

"A pity." She licked her red lips suggestively. "Then you will die with them."

Beside him, Alexander relaxed his stance. He was preparing to shift in his giant lycan. While Lucifer had smoothly transitioned to his devil with long black horns, black nails, and sharp teeth. All hard rock muscles in a confident stance.

Xavier, his vampire beast to the fore, eyes darkened to dark red, fangs glinting in its sharpness, light on his feet, ready to attack.

The abomination Zachary was, stood motionless, waiting for his mistress's command. Looking exactly like an attack dog.

Killing the bastard properly this time was their true aim. And Ruby after.

Deftly aware of their ladies surrounding them - which had really been a bad idea in the first place - they shifted further away to avoid getting their queens in harm's way.

With the lycan pups securely spirited away, they were free. To kill. To maim.

Long mournful horns sounded in the distance and in a few seconds, dark forces surrounded them. Fuck! They were fenced in. Let's hope all their planning will not fail.

"Your boy toy won't win against us, Ruby," Xavier warned.

She threw her head back and laughed hard. "You don't know what you are saying, Vampire King." She smirked.

Lucas removed his shirt, his muscles taut with tension, his eyes glowing. "Before the dawn kisses the horizon, we will have your head on a stake."

Her eyes flashed from his words. All humor was gone. "And I will drain the blood of your queens before the night is over. Bring me their heads, Zachary." Ruby motioned and sat on a makeshift throne. Her ocean-blue eyes alight with malice and expectations.

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Alexander

-I will kill him and tear his body piece by piece.-

-Please be careful, darling.-

-Stay hidden. Command our army when it's time. I love you, mate.-

How he wished he could send her home to care for their rescued pups. But he knew how stubborn and headstrong his mate could be.

The only consolation right now was their children were hidden somewhere. Esmeralda was the only person who knew where it was.

They were surrounded by dark forces and hideous entities and the air was thick with hostility. He should be confident enough because their combined armies were ready to back them up but the sense of trepidation kept creeping in.

One was Zachary, there was an unexplainable evil strength coursing through the bastard's body. An unknown force.

Not for one minute did Alexander doubt his ability however deep inside he knew this will not be an easy fight.

Growling, his chest rumbled and the fur covering his neck and shoulders raised in warning, fangs bared, showing aggression. His fellow kings made room for him and their enemy.

On his muscular hind legs, he began to thunder towards the ugly beast before him. To his annoyance, Zachary remained standing where he was, lips lifted in a condescending smirk.

A few meters before he hit him, with lethal precision, Alexander jumped a few feet in the air and went down slicing the fucker's arm, blood spouting everywhere from the severed limb.

The blow should have made the enemy weak but it didn't. He watched in horror as the wound closed and another arm grew in its place, the new hand was caressing a ball of fire, which unceremoniously Zachary threw at him with a deadly force hitting his chest and burning his skin.

Zachary's other hand was wielding a black sword.

Alexander grunted from the unexpected pain, however, his lycan rapidly healed him. But he was still feeling it. He could sense his muscles underneath burning. A deadly poison spell. If he had not possessed rapid healing abilities, he would be lifeless in a few seconds.

-You are hurting!-

-I'm okay, mio amore. Stay hidden.-

This time his nemesis raced towards him, his red eyes full of hate. Alexander braced himself from the impact and loosened his stance, ready to meet him.

Their bodies met in a series of deathly blows, he was slicing through skin and bones yet it was doing nothing to hinder Zachary's attack.

Alexander suddenly found himself on the offensive. Detering the fucker's deep bites and scratches.

And his demonic weapon.

A lightning-fast movement to his left made him aware Xavier had joined in the fight. Delivering punishing kicks and hits to their enemy. It did nothing and they both found themselves collapsing on the cold earth.

-Alexander!-

He could hear his mate whimpering in fear from their link. Chest heaving, he was mentally preparing for another bout. This might be his toughest fight yet.

-How the fuck did this happen?-

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Lucas

The fucker, Zachary was toughened, obviously, when he was resurrected by the bitch, the Death Angel gave him enhanced powers.

And it will surely take a lot from them, the four kings to beat him.

Partially shifting to his dragon, golden leather wings with sharp talons sprouting from his back, he flew upward with his whole body aligned along the path of his prey, extending his legs upward building his strength before he lunged for the kill. His wing's long black talons embedded through and through on Zachary's torso.

Triumph surged, then Lucas felt it. A knife-like pain below his heart. Fuck!

And Anna Marie's cry of misery. No!

"Attack now! Kill them all. Bring the queens to me." Ruby screamed, sounding the alarm, realizing in a panic the four kings had back up.

Both withdrawing their weapons, he slumped on the ground. Lucifer came to his side and the fight began once more.

Give me control, human! Dracon growled. And he did. Shifting into his fully grown beast. Though bleeding, his fatal wound began to heal.

Anna Marie scrambled to get to him and was perched on his back in an instant. They were up in the air and blowing deadly fire on their enemies.

Moments more, they were joined by their armies.

The Demon King and Zachary were fighting to the death. Both wounded. Traces of blood oozed from his friend's chest and arms as he evaded the bastard long flaming black sword.

Alexander and Xavier were also engaged in a hand to hand combat, meeting Ruby's flesh-eating troops.

The ground rumbled from below them, a sign of more doom about to come.