Jaxson raced forward, and I gritted my teeth and summoned every last ounce of magic I had. Shadows raced across the forest floor, gathering at my feet, as I felt the familiar cool energy course through my veins with every pump of my heart.
My fear of him was gone. I was enraged. At Kahanov, at Dragan, at the Dark Wolf God and his buddies.
For everything that had happened to Jaxson, Sam, and me.
Rage fueled my magic, and ribbons of darkness whipped out from my hands, wrapping around the Wolf God like black chains. My soul strained as I pulled them tight.
The Dark God snarled and struggled against them. “You’ll find I’m not so easy to bind as your wolf!”
“She just has to hold you steady!” Jaxson growled. He seized a long, shattered branch and charged forward with it like a lance. The Dark God roared in pain as it sank into his chest, and his eyes turned bright blue. Jaxson released the branch and tore into him like a savage animal with his claws. Blood poured across the Dark God’s skin.
Then, with a thunderclap, my shadow chains shattered. I staggered back, and the release of power snapped my hands back like rubber bands.
The Dark God unleashed a blast of power that sent Jaxson and Sam flying backward. He snapped off the branch that Jaxson had lodged into his chest, and then broke it in two. After inspecting both pieces he lunged forward and rammed one of the pointed branches through Jaxson’s right shoulder, pinning my mate to the ground.
He broke the second piece, and in a blur of motion, slammed it through Jaxson’s other shoulder. My mate growled and blood pooled at the corner of his mouth. His pain was my agony, and I was blinded by white-hot rage.
Nothing else mattered—the pylons, Magic Side, my own life. I was going to rip that fucker’s heart out.
I pulled out the moonstone and bolted toward them with a ferocious snarl, ready to blast the asshole to kingdom come. But I skidded to a stop as the Dark God placed the last remaining piece against Jaxson’s throat.
“One shove, and I can end him,” the Dark God growled. “So, it’s your fate to choose. Try to chain me, and your mate dies. Drop the moonstone, and he lives.”