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and barrelled into Cass.

“Cass!” Daimon yelled and she wrestled with the goddess, using her magic to give her a boost in strength.

“I have this,” she shouted, not quite sure that she did have it when the furie caught her with her talons, raking them across her side and cutting through her corset. “Take care of the gate.”

Because it was almost closed.

The furie threw a desperate look at it.

And then off to her right.

The second goddess was on her feet again, running for Daimon. Shadows chased her and lightning shot up from the ground all around her. She nimbly dodged and rolled, leaped and managed to evade all of the attacks as she closed in on Daimon.

Cass threw a spell at her.

Regretted it when the one she had been using to boost her strength faltered, the drain on her magic proving too much.

The barrier around them shimmered and she focused on it, shoring it back up again, aware that she couldn’t let it fall, no matter what happened to her. It was all that stood between the brothers and close to one hundred daemons.

The second furie reached Daimon, lashing at him with her claws, driving him back as he tried to reach Cass.

Cass looked at him as the furie she had been fighting got her in a chokehold and dragged her backwards.

Power vibrated in the air. A portal.

She craned her neck to look behind her as she grabbed the furie’s arms, cursed when violet-black clouds billowed outwards from a point only a few feet away. She clawed at the goddess’s arm, drawing blood, and pressed her hands to the crimson liquid, forming a connection between them.

The goddess shrieked in her ear as the spell seeped into her and Cass wove it with another, turning it toxic, hoping to weaken the furie enough that she could break free.

She kicked and scrambled with her legs as the bitch pulled her backwards, as the power of the portal grew heavier in the air.

Cass looked at Daimon, awareness washing through her, leaving her cold.

She couldn’t stop the furie in time.

He paused as he grappled with the second furie and stared at her, hurt welling in his striking eyes, laced with despair and hopelessness that crashed over her too.

A vicious roar cut through the night as the barrier flickered and faded.

Daimon’s head jerked up and he ducked as the furie he had been fighting released him and threw herself to the ground.

Cass stared wide-eyed as a huge lion-like creature with feathered eagle wings and gleaming talons shot past him.

Heading straight for her.

This wasn’t good.

Those talons flexed, aimed right at her.

It was going to rip her to pieces.

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Daimon ducked and then popped to his feet as the winged lion shot past him, heading for Cass. She froze in the furie’s grip, horror shining in her blue eyes as she stared at the beast that was zooming towards her.

Daimon had never been so glad to see the little bastard.

Mister Milos swooped upwards, grabbing the furie with his talons and hauling her up into the night air on hard beats of his feathered wings. The guardian deity growled as he sank fangs into the female’s shoulder, as he raked at her with his claws. The goddess fought him as they twisted in the air, scratching at him with her own talons, hissing and snarling the whole time.

Cass sagged to her knees, eyes fixed in a blank stare ahead of her and her skin far too pale for Daimon’s liking.

He kicked off, determine to grab her before Meadow could recover from the blow he had delivered when Mister Milos had distracted her with his overly dramatic, and extremely late, entrance.

He left the second furie in the dust as blood rained down from the sky.

The battle that raged there slowly drew Cass’s stunned gaze upwards.

Heat licked across his back and he didn’t need to look to know Meadow was on her feet and coming after him. Ares grunted as he hurled another fireball at her, and she screamed as this one connected, blasting her towards the gate.

Daimon’s breath hitched and he skidded on the grass, twisting towards the gate.

Meadow shot straight through the lingering ring and central violet disc, tumbled across the ground and rolled to a halt.

The ring shrank into the central disc and it began to grow smaller, burning brighter as the power of the gate was condensed down into a single tiny orb. That orb flashed, the violet light blinding him as it filled the darkness, and