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I’ll summon him. That’ll teach my mate to give me instant access to him.
But how to work it? Jabbing all the runes, I finally tap the center where a raised symbol dominates the band. Nothing happens. I keep tapping a frantic beat.Motherfu—oh, I hold it down, and magic pulses through my wrist like a heartbeat.
The incoming throb of teleportation makes my ears pop.
Sweet.
A blonde in a black gown appears, a maniacal grin spreading across her lips and blue blood dripping from her hands.
My heart races in a panicked pace.
Shit.
I summoned Gilly.
She clamps her sharp nails around my wrist. “I can’t believe Theo left this on you. I was always the smarter sibling. Good thing I had it reworked to bring me instead.”
Rage runs through me, heating my blood. “Good for you, you psycho.” I twist my hand free to grab the hatchet, ready to swing it at her.
Except Monty’s mongoose shriek has me freezing. He lunges his furry body at Gilly, not seeming to care she’s a hundred times bigger than him even in her human glamour. She snaps her fingers, and a portal shimmers to life.
Time slows to an awful creep.
Monty leaps at her, and a snake comes through the portal, its giant maw open with gleaming fangs.
It swallows my soul guardian whole.
“No, Mont?—”
My scream cuts short as Gilly teleports us out.
CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
Theo
Gilly has truly lost her gods-damned mind.
After the initial stillness, shadows poured from the house, bringing the scent of death in their wake.
“Shadow monsters,” a soldier grumbles behind me. “They will devour this world.”
Even the Infernal Army’s no match for true shadow monsters. It took my great-grandfather and every demon of every single hell dimension brought together to defeat them. That’s why they’ve been locked in the deepest pit of the After Worlds. We’ve walked into a suicide mission.
I could call this off, retreat to Shadowvale, and leave this realm to ruin.
But that would break promises to my mate, leaving her friends and family to face annihilation by the shadow monsters, no matter how Gilly hadn’t brought any of them here as bait. It doesn’t matter. Ava and her kraken remain in this realm, Rosemarie and her gargoyles wouldn’t survive the influx ofsouls, and Val’s horrible family would be wiped out. While I don’t care what happens to her family, she does.
“None get past us,” I order the Infernal Army. “I’ll close those portals.”
I go to teleport, but a shadow knocks into me in the nanosecond before I can make the jump.
What the hell?That hasn’t happened before.
Gathering the magic again, I teleport to the house, only to be knocked back into the yard on my ass, far behind where I’d been. Again and again, I try. Each time, the house repels me.
Fuck. Gilly must’ve warded the house against teleportation.
I’ll have to do this the non-magical way.
