Underworld Bride Trials 1 Playboy King - Meg Xuemei X. Page 0,73
where I am. And I can’t leave as I’m stuck in the trials.”
As if on cue, the crystal ball vibrated in the air as it was reactivated from the other side. A dark storm boiled inside again as if it were trying to break through the barrier to grab me.
A sheet of hellfire surged from Loki, engulfing the crystal ball and burning it into a drop of liquid. A tail of flames ate it up.
“You have me, Tessa,” he said, gathering me into his lap, his forehead pressing against mine, his dark hair spangled with golden curls hanging to his jawline. “I swear to you with my last breath, I won’t allow that fucking god to hunt you in my realm or in any other realm. He’ll have to go through me to get to you. I’m your shield, now and forever.” Dark regret wheeled in his eyes. “The only place I can’t protect you is in the trials. No one can alter the rules of the Wild Hunt. It will only backfire if I try.”
At his words, his fire sank into me, turning to embers. Then the embers lit and became a lick of flame in my depths.
I gasped as heat bubbled up like a spring, a brand new magic manifesting in my bloodstream.
The King of Hell had just given me his fire.
Pyre to your ice. That was what the Weaver of the Fates had told me all along.
I stared at Loki in shock and wonder as I breathed out a trace of frost laced with a spark of hellfire.
I’d been seeking the inferno fire all my life. Only now did I realize it was never a physical fire or even an elemental power.
It was him—the King of Hell—all along.
Loki was the flame to my ice. His hellfire was my ice’s mate.
And I’d come to my mate as an enemy. I’d taken the blood magic-bound contract to kill my only salvation.
Loki wiped the icy tears from my cheeks with the pad of his thumb, and I watched the wick of flame flicker in the storm.
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Author’s Note
Dear Reader,
Thank you for reading Playboy King, a spinoff of the Half-Blood Academy series. I hope you liked it! I’ll try to get Book 2: Rejected Queen out as soon as I can. You know me—I always released the next book earlier than scheduled.
Spoilers for Rejected Queen: Loki learns that Tessa is his enemy—she didn’t come for his heart or his warm bed. She came for his head. While he can’t decide if he should kill her or keep her, his beast has another ingenious idea and firmly believes that romance or lust never dies.
<>3 Meg
Half-Blood Academy 1: Magic Trials
The demigods can’t decide if they want to screw me or kill me.
My name is Marigold. I’m a hunter living in the Great Merge—Lucifer has brought Hell to half of Earth, and four demigods rule the other half.
The smoking-hot Demigod of War rounded up my team to enroll them in Half-blood Academy, aka Half-death Academy, due to the survival rate of the students.
When he sees me, he wants no one else but me. So he offers to spare my team if I go in their place. Problem is, no human outside the bloodline of the gods can survive the magic trials. The demigod insists I’m anything but human, and he’s willing to risk my life to find out what I’m made of.
I’m not the weakest link, even though all the bullies in the Academy mock me. I’m nothing anyone has ever seen before, and when my forbidden power awakens, the demigods will regret they ever tried to make me their bitch.
Magic Trials is the first book in the Half-Blood Academy series, a medium-burn reverse harem fantasy romance packed with heart-pounding action, suspense, lust and romance.
Excerpt of Half-Blood Academy
“You can touch me, lamb,” Héctor whispered in joy.
The Demigod of Death kissed me, searing me like a dark, burning star. The ground pulled away from my feet, not because I was so dazed from his scorching passion—well, I was dazzled, but who wouldn’t be when she was kissed by a death demigod?
He flew me high into the sky, one arm wrapped around me. His other hand slid into my