Hidden Court (Underworld Bride Trials, #4)
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She could have taken me with her when she returned to Asgard, as she’d seen how Lucifer treated me, but she’d regarded me as a burden and eventually abandoned me.
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And then you would have probably been eating by Hellen too…
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Our new power danced on the blade as I lunged at Lucifer, bashing away his Blade of Hell and angling my angelblade toward his chest.
Jsalt80
So that entire conversation happened within seconds as he was lunged towards Lucifer’s heart?
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Lucifer’s scream changed. I’d never heard him scream like that—until
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So you’d heard him scream before?
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My wolf wasn’t done yet. He tossed a new string of dark spells at Lucifer, and the Devil squeezed his eyes shut and screamed again, as if by doing so he could prevent the spells from sinking into him.
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I hope he removes the blood contract or something…
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The combination of the spells will shatter any power you still possess.
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Now Loki’s an expert on ancient spells??
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Axel ducked at the last second, but Athena’s spear had changed direction in midair, and the goddess stabbed her spearhead between Axel’s third and fourth ribs.
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Again… Loki is clearly more power than the four demigods because he was beating up the three of them all by himself and sustained no injuries while injuring them yet these guys are four against two and are getting hurt.
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‘Heya, Héctor, we think it’s time you quit behaving like a fucking leading man—’”
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Lordt…
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I always listen to them before handing the drive to Dux and Fayette.” “Do you ever respect anyone’s privacy?” I growled. She blinked. “You do?”
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Wow…
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It was one big happy family.
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What is Lucifer doing right now?
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Mercilessly, I clapped my hands. “Now!”
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Oh so this time he remembers others are supposed to be there?
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I slowly drew my angelblade out of his chest,
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Oh, that’s what Lucifer was doing. Lol
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“Now let’s hunt down the Angel of Death and go get my mate!”
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My, my, Bran. Look what you’ve gotten yourself into…
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I shoved away a creature of teeth and claws in the murky mist, my own claws snapping out.
Jsalt80
So she does have claws. An earlier book said she didn’t.
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Mother, I can take on the Ice God, my son offered. Kids believed they were invincible.
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She needs to listen to her son, or at least work with him. She sees he was powerful enough to break the choker thing.
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I said hide, I said sternly. Listen to your mother, or you’ll be grounded. Grounded, how? he asked curiously and eagerly.
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Lol
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A god bred from the hardest ice, he was the son of the Frost Giant King and a royal Asgardian goddess.
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Repetitive…
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“It appears that you have something inside you,” he said, his voice deep and sharp. “Something new.”
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Oh Lordt…
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Had he sensed the presence of my son? Ragnarö was a powerful god. Even though my jacket covered my slightly swollen belly, my son’s presence might be too strong even with my ice magic shielding him.
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And he didn’t sense him before? 🙄
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“I guarantee that you’ll enjoy tonight. I’ll fuck you in front of my entire army, and everyone will know you belong to me.”
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Wow…
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I can help. He perked up immediately. I was born to be a hero. You’re Mommy’s hero if you stay quiet.
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Her downfall… knowing she needs help.
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He snorted, his sharp gaze moving from my face to my breasts then to my belly, covered by my long leather jacket. I fought not to cover my belly with my hands.
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Don’t think it matters since he just looked at all the places that would show signs of a pregnancy first.
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His eyes turned colder, jealous rage blistering in them.
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Jealous rage… oh he knows. The question is, why is he just now realizing she had sex with the Hell King when he lured them into the Crystal Fantasy Fairie realm where they had fantasy sex…
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“And you ran from me and threw yourself like a whore into another man’s arms.
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Which means she can’t possibly be your fated mate or true mate. Whatever lies you’ve told yourself.
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And after I brought you back from the brink of death, you still try to deceive me at every turn.”
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Which you caused…
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My son had the powers of five bloodlines—archangel, Asgardian God, Hell king, Morrigan the War Goddess, and Titan.
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Yeah, he told you (and us) that already.
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I could last this long only because of my unborn son.
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Oh, you recognize that now. She should have gotten his help to open the damn portal.
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My implant blades thrust out of my knuckles and slashed across my palm.
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Now she has implant blades?
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A glacial storm surged from the ground,
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Huh?
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My storm, boosted by the realm, surged toward the god. The land’s magic had sped up my transition to immortality as its sole guardian and queen.
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But what is the Ice God doing right now though?
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“Now, get the fuck out of my realm and take your abominations with you,” I ordered, finally standing in my own kingdom as a regal queen. “Don’t ever come back.”
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She’s talking like she has already beaten him up and conquered him. Makes no sense.
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She must be at least three or four months pregnant. My heart ached. That fucking bastard must have forced himself on her and made my mate carry his child.
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Dude, she’s only been there 3-4 days…
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She was worried that I’d blame her and abandon her for carrying another man’s child.
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Wow… slow much?
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That hurt. That fucking hurt. My mate was rejecting me. I dropped my head, shame battering me.
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Lordt… is this 3 minutes up yet?
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“What? My king?” one of the dukes shouted back, and the others yelled at him for not paying attention to the fierce battle.
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Had to be Asmodeus…
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“He’s already started to use a lot of f-bombs and picked up a few bad habits from you, even as an infant.” “But I don’t have bad habits,” I said.
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Lol
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“How dare you show your face again, Azrael?” the ice bastard bellowed. “You betrayed me. I’ll build an ice tomb for you.”
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Isn’t he the one that brought him Tessa?
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The dead should stay dead. You should not blur the line between the living and the dead.
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What about vampires then…
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Only lately did I find an opening through your ex.
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Prolly shouldn’t have mentioned “ex”.
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And now her current mate, who insists on being her only true mate,...
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Was she supposed to have more than one? A harem?
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She didn’t like me to toss her virginity card around,
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But…she told Veronica and a crowd of over 100 that she was a virgin in the 2nd trial in Manhattan.
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“No one can break through my barrier,” the ice bastard hissed.
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Didn’t Tessa already do that? And how did Loki arrive if not?
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The Titans also came and brought a small army from the Void. I’ve never seen anything like it. Also, the Ice Fae slaves broke their yokes and joined forces with the alien armies. While we thought your bride was staying in her tower, she was secretly conspiring with her former Fae generals.
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Wow author, that’s a lot to unpack there… must be trying to rush to a closure.
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But I also felt the cold ice sinking into my bones, about to freeze my blood and snuff out my hellfire altogether. I wasn’t in my realm, so my flame wasn’t at its strongest, and this was the ice realm. Everything here was against me. For the first time, I wasn’t in my element.
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What’s the point of having a mate with “Ice to your Flame” then? You combined power with the other demigods to subdue the others…
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Frost Giants and throwing insults at the alien giants, who didn’t understand a word they were saying.
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Lordt…
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Leviathan called me the cunt Hellcat four years ago when I crashed his orgy party!”
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Wow…
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“The realm isn’t opposing you, Loki. Not anymore,”
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Exactly.
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Our fire and ice connected, our mating bond roaring to life as it was re-established.
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Why wouldn’t it have re-established when they kissed?
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I’d tried to raise a mercenary army to take back my kingdom for a decade,
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How was it a decade when she was thirteen when he “broke her heart and woke her up”, fourteen when she ran away, and now she’s not even eighteen yet? Also, knowing what we know and what we know she knew about the Ice God, a mercenary army wouldn’t have done her one bit of good and she knew that.
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My throat tightened with gratitude while the battle song coursed in my heated veins.
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Seriously, what is this battle song she keeps talking about. At first I thought it was just a feeling, then sometimes it’s like it’s an actual song because she’s say someone else also heard it…
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I spotted a small army of shifters, mostly wolves, that had joined the demon army.
Jsalt80
And where the hell have they been this whole time when Loki’s dumb ass thought the other chick was Tessa?