Angry kiss

Kiara's POV

I could feel it.

The air around us was thick, suffocating. Lust's power weighed down on my chest like a thousand invisible hands, pressing, squeezing, making it almost impossible to breathe.

Ryder lay beside me, panting, barely able to lift a finger. Elena gritted her teeth, trying one last spell, but her magic flickered, unstable. We were at our limit.

Lust smiled down at us.

"Well, this has been fun, hasn't it?" she purred, tilting Veryon's head to the side. "But I think it's time we wrap this up."

She raised Veryon's hand, dark energy coiling around his fingers. I knew what was coming—she was going to end us.

And then—

BOOM!

A flash of light.

A roar of energy.

And suddenly, they were here.

Lucius.

Kael.

Asher.

Michael.

They arrived in a blur, their movements so fast that the air around them rippled with power.