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We walked through the eth from the other

Like I did with Kai

The thought flitted through rimaced as I pushed it away I still didn’t knohat to do with all of that But when I saw Kai sitting three rows behindat everybody, I couldn’t stop theback The way it had felt when he’d drunk froainst my wrist, sharp as tattoo needles A shudder of fear and excitement that had trickled down my spine

I tried to catch his eye, and I was sure he noticed, but he deliberately ignored me

“Fine, be that way,” I breathed, frustration ht

Kai never had been fully on board with any of this—he’d resented the succubus bond from the second we found out what it was Maybe he was just pissy we’d had an actual bonding moment

Or, I thought as I looked around at the crowd of students in various stages of shock and hysteria,all of them are

He’d lived on earth out of sight and undetected for years, going to great lengths to avoid both the underworld and Fallen University entirely He was probably upset that his efforts had been thwarted on both counts

I settled in between Xero and Jayce, with Kingston and Hannah on either side of theed to avoid looking over my shoulder at Kai as Headmaster Toland took the podium

“Your attention please” His voice rang with power, and even the most hysterical student shut the hell up to listen

“I regret to inform all of you that we are, in fact, in the underworld The school and everything—and everyone—within its walls have been transported into a cave on the surface of the underworld”

“How?”

“Why?”

“Gavriel will kill us all!”

Hysteria rose into an indecipherable babbling, and I rolled my eyes This wasn’t the first time all of the formidable monsters at this academy had been reduced to a panicky mob, and I was sure it wouldn’t be the last