Lost Beauty (The Deadly Beauties Live On 4)

Leah slowly moves out of the room, but I don’t know where she’s going or what she’s doing.

“So yes? No?”

“It’s maybe,” I say, staring him in the eyes. “I’ll try. I can’t make a blood oath, but I’ll try to save Morgana. If there’s anything left to save.”

“No!” Chaz barks.

“She’s still in there. She’s been a prisoner inside her own mind for centuries, but I know she’s still in there. The master let her out on occasion just to taunt me as part of my torture.”

He looks over at Gage who continues to sit in stunned silence.

“Ever wonder why the evilest bitch you knew was so easy to kill on a night you just happened to escape? She set it up. She planned all this. A violent murder is the easiest way for a soul to escape from hell. The unfinished business shit tends to let them creep closer to the lines than others. An injustice was seen, and hell didn’t hang on as tightly. You gave her exactly what she wanted, and she brought the whole fucking coven plus a few others with her once she was out. Now help me save Morgana.”

Gage shakes his head like he’s snapping out of a trance.

I have no idea who or what they’re talking about.

“No,” Gage says, his lips thinning. “Too many people could die in an effort to save one life that we might not even be able to save. If what you’re saying is true, Morgana has been trapped for a really long time. There’s no telling what she’ll be like once you get her out.”

Gavin pushes away from the wall, his look hardening.

“Too bad. We might have made a great team. But my only agenda is my witch. The rest of the world can burn for all I care.”

He disappears, and Slade curses as he slams his hands against the wall. “That motherfucker just boxed us in!”

He punches against a barrier over and over, but it doesn’t break against his fist as quickly as most do. Finally it shatters, but Slade looks furious.

“He’s gone. I can’t feel his trail. Fucking great.”

“You need to learn a little patience,” Ella tells him, looking amused for reasons unbeknownst to me.

Slade ignores her. “Who is the demon?” he demands, glaring at Gage.

Gage still looks so lost and confused. “Her name is Hannah.” His eyes come up, meeting all of ours.

“What do you know about her?” I ask, getting a bad feeling.

“The world will be submerged in depravity and darkness for all eternity if she’s the one running the show. She hated immortals. We need to be looking at dimensions that could kill us all, because she wants to be the only one with power.”

“Still a fucking crazy bitch,” Dice mutters.

Chapter 26

CHAZ

Gage tells us the story of his early years, before he was an immortal. Hannah was the one who enslaved him and fed off his magic to fuel her own. And he shoved a knife into her mortal body while she slept.

He found it too easy.

It was too easy.

Hannah planned her own murder so she could come back a demon. It’s the most insane, most diabolical thing I’ve ever heard.

Dice has fully healed, he’s back to hashtag jokes, and Kya is asleep in my bed—passed out, more like it. Karma is sleeping just as hard in Dice’s bed.

Slade is gone. Who knows where?

“Roslyn got anything yet?” I ask Thad.