not. You have concerns about Killian, go to Killian.”
“You are too damn loyal for your own good,” I snarl. “What about your loyalty to me?”
“Oh, don’t you dare,” he growls, approaching me. “You know that I love you and would throw myself in front of a…” He pauses as I guess he is trying to think of something so bad, it’ll convince me. “…Shifted Lucifer to save you!”
“Nice,” I praise him. “Wondered what you’d come up with.”
His feral attitude fades slightly. “Anna, I don’t have the answers you seek. You need to speak to Killian.”
“I wish that I could,” I murmur, the pain of his absence hitting me in the chest so hard, I choke back a sob.
“Oh, Queenie. I know how much this sucks,” he says and takes me in his arms. “He’ll be back soon.”
“I hope so, this feeling is unbearable,” I mutter, trying to ignore the hole in my heart.
“He will,” he says determinedly, and then we jump apart as something huge crashes through the shaky roof of the Kennels and lands on the floor at our feet in a growling snarling heap.
27
Annabelle
“What the actual fuck?” I shriek as War and Famine land hard on the stone floor and continue to grapple with each other, trading blows and snarling like two fucking Alphas. I glance at Elijah in amusement and mutter, “Any chance you wanna try that again with getting rid of Leviathan?”
He gives me an ‘eye-roll’ expression, “If only I was responsible for this arrival, sadly, not within my powers.”
We watch War and Famine go at it for a few more seconds before it starts getting old.
“Enough!” I shout and hold my hands out to split them up and fling them to opposite sides of the Kennels. “What the fuck is this?”
“I don’t know how we got here,” Killian grits out. “Was it you?” He glares at Famine.
“Nope,” the very suave male says, dusting off his suit. He is even hotter in person and up close. Too bad he has to fuck off, like, right the fuck now.
“Explain,” I say shortly.
“We were on Earth fighting and then we were here,” Killian says.
“Gee, that’s informative,” I drawl. “Why were you fighting exactly?”
“He wanted to get back here to find Lilith. I told him that she would’ve already been removed. Am I right?” He glares at me.
“You are.” I lick my lips. “But you didn’t see her and Xavi?” I add carefully.
He shakes his head. “Were we supposed to?”
“Yes. Xavi was supposed to take Death to you…” I trail off starting to panic. Why didn’t they make the meet? “Is she here? Can you sense her?”
“She’s not here. Neither of them,” he replies, picking up on my growing concern.
I have to push it aside. Xavi is practically indestructible. She will be fine. Leviathan needs dealing with, so we have to do this now.
“Take him back to Earth. I don’t need him here right now.”
“Oh no,” Famine says, striding forward.
I hold my hand up to block him from taking another step.
He grimaces. “I came here looking for her, knowing that I could finally get to her. She has been hiding out in Purgatory for years so that I couldn’t get my hands on her. I want that bitch,” he grits out.
I pause. Devlin was right. These two have a history and it’s ugly. This could be the perfect distraction and also get her out of my hair for a good long while.
“She came here for that little prick, didn’t she?” Famine asks in the silence. “I will fucking kill him…”
“You will not go anywhere near him. He is mine,” I spit out. “That Death bitch needs to get that through her skull, and you can be the one to convince her of that.”
“Annabelle,” Killian says sharply. “He needs to leave.”
“Not right now he doesn’t,” I reply. “Two Horsemen is one too many, but it’s not Apocalyptic. I’m guessing that Death and Xavi are in Purgatory right now and I know someone who can get us there.”
“Devlin can’t take us, we already tried that when we were looking for you,” Killian grates out.
“I’m not talking about Devlin,” I say quietly.
Killian clenches his fists and his jaw so tightly, I think he’s going to snap every tendon in his body.
But he doesn’t speak.
Not a single word.
He hangs onto his vitriol about Legion like a desperate man clinging to the edge of a cliff that has a thousand-foot drop underneath and is also filled with every hideous beast you can think of.
“He