Dark Angel Academy (The Complete Series) - G. Bailey Page 0,121
my head once before meeting her eyes. “And we will offer you a deal in repayment for an army, the deal that there will be peace between us all, forever, and if you need the vampires’ help in the future, we will come.”
Lexi looks back at her mates, who stand behind her. They talk quietly for a moment, and I glance at Ren, hoping I said everything right. He winks at me. “I chose the best queen. I knew the second I met you.”
“Sweet talker,” I whisper back, and he chuckles softly. Lexi takes her sweet time talking with her mates before turning back to the portal. At this point, I feel sorry for Warren, who must be freezing in that river.
“The angels have forever seen us as scum, and no doubt this would have been our war in the future. The demon army will rise, and we will fight at your side. We do not want the angels to be destroyed, but they need new leaders. They must change their ways and promise peace with every race,” Lexi says. “I am bound to hell, and I cannot leave, but some of my mates will lead the army, including my mate, Javier, who is a wolf shifter and will fight with the wolves alongside the alpha and your man, Myles.”
Glancing at Myles behind me, I see him grinning, and I turn back as Ren starts to talk.
“History will mark this day as one of unity,” he says, and the statement lingers in the air as we all take it in. Somehow he is right. All of us have our own stories that shaped who we are and led to this moment right now. This war that will forever be remembered as a war where the tales, demons and vampires fought side by side to stop the angels once and for all.
“Agreed,” Lexi replies.
“I hope it is a story we can tell our grandchildren,” Madi adds in.
“We will prepare for war, and in two days we will meet at the ruins of The Demon Academy. The area is still being rebuilt, and it will be a good place to fight,” Lexi suggests. “It’s not far from the angels.”
“Good luck to us all and may peace prevail,” I say. The words are repeated by every single person here until the portal disappears, and poor Warren can get out of the river. He looks grumpy as he stomps out of the water and tries to hug Madi, who runs from him with a laugh. Watching them be playful, how it effortlessly works between her and all her mates, is so sweet. They co-exist, and it gives me hope it could work for me somehow.
“Can I talk to you?” Myles asks, stepping in front of me, and I smile up at him.
“What about, wolf?” Ren asks before I can answer, his tone curt and forced into some degree of nice as he is still not quite on board the Myles train. Thallon and Henry seem to really get along with him, but Ren pretty much only likes Henry out of my guys. At some point, we all need to talk about how I’m mated with three of them, and I have feelings for Myles that won’t simply go away. Myles smiles at him, not remotely thrown by Ren’s hostility, or at least he doesn’t show it.
“I could do with some time away from the cabin and the vampires all staring at us,” I gently tell Ren. “Plus, this dimension is spectacular, and we have hardly looked around.”
Ren nods once, his eyes fixed on Myles, but before he lets me go, he steps right into Myles’s face.
“If you hurt my queen, I will rip you to pieces,” Ren warns him in a voice that scares me a little bit. I want to step in the middle of them, but it feels like it’s their moment and they need to sort whatever this is out. “If you allow anyone to hurt her, the same thing will happen to you that does to her. Being in Kaitlyn’s life, having her trust, is worth more than anything in any world. I am trusting you with my soul. With my everything. With Kaitlyn.”
They stare each other down, and I start to worry a little bit. I don’t think I could cope with seeing them rip each other apart.
“You hurt Katy once, and I should kill you for that, but clearly Kaitlyn is a better person than I am. I