Dark Angel Academy (The Complete Series) - G. Bailey Page 0,115

me you need to cut your hand on this, and it will take you to him. He said only one can pass through the rock, and it must be a true mate. If you go through and take one of these stones, you could open a portal wherever Ren is and get him back.”

“She has to go alone, back to the angels?” Henry demands. I place my hand on his chest, and Madi looks away.

“It’s Ren. I need to go,” I whisper. “He went there for me.” Henry looks like he wants to fight the subject but eventually nods. Before I move my hand away, he tugs me to him and kisses me like he wants me to never ever let go of his lips. I moan into his mouth, completely forgetting we aren’t alone until Madi clears her throat, and Henry slowly lets me go.

I turn back to Madi, and she offers me the stone. “The stone needs force to open the portal. So just throw it down on the ground or at a wall or something. My mate will close the portal the second you are through, and we will fight anyone who gets through by accident if need be.”

“I owe you big time,” I say, taking the stone and slipping it into my hoodie pocket.

“Friends don’t owe each other. We support each other,” she says and slides a dagger out of her holder on her hip. Damn, she is a cool friend. I lay my hand out flat for her, and a small cry leaves my lips when she cuts a line across my palm. Henry picks the rock out of the box, and I turn to him, nodding once, and he drops the rock into my hand. The rock instantly shakes before the grey rock colour bleeds away into a dark red stone that shines with its own light. The rock shakes hard in my hands, which feel glued to it, and I can’t look away. I swear I hear Henry shouting my name, but everything is foggy as the rock shakes and glows, taking the world with it. My feet leave the ground as I can see nothing but red light, and I feel the power radiating down my arms, filling my soul. I once thought nothing could be as bad as the pain I felt when I was changed into an angel or when I was changed into a vampire.

I was wrong.

The pain that comes with this rock feels like tiny knives cut every bit of my skin before they suddenly stop, and I suck cold air into my sore lungs. Every inch of my body hurts as I drop the rock, and it smashes into tiny rocks all over the white-tiled floor.

“Kaitlyn?” Ren’s groggy voice drifts to me, and I snap back into the reality I’m in, the rock long forgotten as I see Ren lying on the tiles, covered in blood and his clothes ripped to pieces. Tiny cuts mark every inch of his body that I can see, and there is so much blood coating him. His face is so swollen I hardly can see his eyes, and a cry escapes my lips as I fall to my knees in front of him. He reaches up with a shaky hand, and I grab it, holding his hand to my chest.

Fury builds in me as I throw the stone at the wall behind Ren, a portal blasting to life. With all the strength I have, I roll Ren into the portal, and he falls through it before I stand up. Alarms blast to life, and I watch as Riley and two other angels run down the corridor in front of the bars. The blood on Riley’s white uniform makes me feel sick…he hurt Ren.

He is a monster.

“All angels who think they are gods will fall.” My words echo around the room, and I know they heard me as they stare in shock, stumbling to a halt. Riley’s eyes find mine last, and I vow this is the last time I will ever walk away from him. If Riley ever tries to hurt me or someone I love, I will end his life no matter how much it would kill me to do so. I step through the portal, and I know I won’t ever forget what the angels have done.

Chapter 59

My fingers dig into my jean-covered knees as I watch Knox Tale heal the last of the bad cuts that cover nearly