in this realm.
Dread pooled in her stomach to weigh her down and chill her as she turned to face the newcomers, sure that her fight was over now and she had failed.
A beautiful blonde female with large tropical-blue eyes came rushing at her, her shapely figure clad in dark blue trousers and a strange kind of corset made of thin dull orange material with narrow straps that ran over her shoulders.
Calindria braced herself, summoned her strength and readied herself for a fight, unwilling to give up, even when she was sure she couldn’t win against this female.
A female who blazed straight past her, a vicious hiss pealing from her lips as her irises turned violet.
Calindria leaned to one side so she could see past the curving wall of brambles and looked over her shoulder, tracking the female. Her eyes slowly widened as the blonde barrelled into the warriors that stood between her and Thanatos. The female fought them bare-handed, swiftly blocking any blows the males tried to land on her.
She wasn’t an enemy?
Calistos came to stand beside her, an odd smile curling his lips and a light in his blue eyes. “Look at the wife go.”
He grinned at Calindria.
“Marinda is one of the Erinyes and I think she has a little vengeance on her mind. I’ll introduce you later.” He winked and then he was gone.
She stared after him as he sprinted across the black ground to join the fray, teaming up with the female, helping her as she took down almost a dozen of the warriors in less than a handful of minutes.
“Wife?” Calindria whispered, too stunned to do anything but stare.
Calistos was married?
It hit her that she had missed so much of his life, that she had missed so much of all her brothers’ lives. Thanatos had told her that they had females, but she hadn’t expected things to be this serious. Her brother had a wife.
“Ho-ly fuck.” The male voice coming from behind her made her tense and whirl, her hands coming up to defend herself at the same time.
They instantly dropped to her sides as her eyes met wide ice-blue ones that rapidly filled with a warmth that heated her heart and brought tears to her eyes.
“Daimon,” she whispered, unable to believe it was him standing before her, scrubbing a hand over the soft white spikes of his hair as he stared at her as if she was a ghost.
“I’m not sure I actually believed that commander when he said you needed help… that you were… shit… alive… free… I don’t know.” He chuckled, sounding a little crazed.
She felt as if she was heading that way herself.
The urge to hug him was strong, but she denied it, looked back over her shoulder in the direction of the fight, the hope that had been fading in her growing stronger and stronger as she saw that Calistos and his wife were now decimating the enemy forces.
She looked back at Daimon and realised he wasn’t alone.
Beside him, a very beautiful and elegant dark-haired female wearing a flowing, figure-hugging black dress, gently touched his shoulder, smoothing her fingers over the navy material of the top that covered him to his wrists and his jaw.
The soft look in her pale blue eyes was the complete opposite of how she sounded when she spoke, her words hard and laced with a strong accent Calindria couldn’t place.
“Talk later. Fight now. Mari needs help.”
“Are you really here?” Calindria reached for him but didn’t touch him, needing to stop him from leaving. She just needed a moment. She needed to know this was real. “Only the enemy can teleport in this realm. You could not have teleported here.”
He grinned. “I didn’t teleport. The missus transported us. A term for teleporting that Cass here insists is different to teleporting, but I’m not buying it.”
“It is.” She frowned at Daimon.
“Anyway… Cass is a witch. Guardian of Marinda, the furie who is having one hell of a field day out there.”
“A witch?” Calindria had never met one before, but she had heard of them.
“Best witch there is.” Cass raised her hands, her palms facing the sky, and Calindria tensed as bright colourful light burst from them.
She tracked the blue and green orbs as they shot high into the air and flinched as they detonated. She couldn’t believe what she was seeing as light flowed from the point where they had exploded, sweeping down and outwards to form an enormous dome over the area.
“Now no one can teleport.” The