All Chapters of Red Rover: Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

We came here with fifty supernaturals—wolves, witches, fae, goblins, dwarves, and shifters. But there’s no way we can handle all the deities and their minions in front of us.“Retreat!” I yell.“Not so fast,” Lucifer purrs. With a flick of his hand, the gates slam shut and the portal vanishes. “The party has barely begun.”Then the smug bastard drops into a throne like it’s open mic night and props his feet on a table. “Begin.”Demons leap from the shadows—falling from the ceiling, crawling from walls, even sneaking up behind us. A massive gargoyle-like creature blocks our path, but instead of stone skin, his hide is made of bone. On one side of him is a lion-headed woman in Egyptian garb. On the other, a woman with antlers and a body split down the middle—half rotting skeleton, half cold-eyed human.Others close in from behind, but I’m locked on the horrors in front.“I am Chernobog,” the bone giant growls.“I am Sekhmet,” the lioness hisses.“I am Hel,” the half-skeletal woman says,

Nathan is freaking the fuck out.I mean, I don’t blame him. He and Nyx just decided to give things a real shot, and now she’s been taken. He keeps trying to break into the portal we’ve found remnants of, but something’s blocking him.One of Nathan’s abilities as a witch is that he can mimic other powers. It doesn’t last long, but it can be seriously useful—like now, when he should be able to use the remnants of Loviatar’s power to reopen the portal she used and follow it to wherever she took Nyx.Only... it’s not working. There’s something else on the other side—something more powerful than Loviatar—and it’s holding the portal shut. I can’t figure out who’s doing it, or how the hell to bypass them.Nathan’s soaked in sweat, his shirt clinging to his back, his face twisted in pure strain. It’s draining his magick—and if he doesn’t slow down, it’s going to start eating at his lifeforce. Probably faster than his werewolf healing can keep up.“Nathan, you’ve got to take a break, man. You’v

I was brought here to help. To do sutures. To assist in surgery. To keep patients comfortable as they heal.Normally, I’m damn good at it. But knowing JoJo is in surgery, fighting for her life? It’s killing me.I can’t focus on anything.After that initial wave of pain, I haven’t felt anything else—probably because I’m not fully bonded to her. If I were, my life force could support hers.As it is, she’s on her own.Bhakti and Lily are doing everything they can, but they’ve got two other critical patients in surgery—one of them is Tomas.I don’t know how I’m going to survive this if JoJo doesn’t make it. And what if Alexander doesn’t even know? It’d be strange if I could feel her pain and he couldn’t… but then again, I can’t feel our bond when he’s in the Goddess’ Realm. So maybe not.The idea that JoJo could die and he wouldn’t even know until after his mission—it’s gut-wrenching.Fuck. This whole thing is a mess, and I don’t know how to handle it.A hand clamps on my shoulder. “Come o

Alexander slept the entire time we waited for Jaiden and Jareth to return—aside from the ten minutes it took him to eat. At first, we were pumping so much energy into him that it started to drain me a little.But within the first hour, he needed less and less. His breathing evened out. His skin regained color. The tension around his features faded. I was still pushing some energy into him, but mostly for my own peace of mind.When Jaiden and Jareth finally arrived from the gloom, Arya had already removed her hand from Alexander’s. I was barely doing anything by then.Evanora, Citra, and Hawk ran to Jareth and Jaiden immediately. Arya and Xander followed, but I stayed with Alexander. Their voices carried through the still, eerie grayness.“Any issues?” Hawk asked, clasping hands with Jaiden. The two of them had been best friends since the war against Julian and the Riding Hoods twenty years ago.“Other than staying awake from sheer boredom? Nothing at all,” Jaiden replied.The voices st

I’ve got Jai on speaker so Kaia can hear too, both of us hunched over the phone like it’s holding our sanity together.“He made it through surgery fine,” Jai says. “The blade didn’t go all the way through, but it nicked his large intestine. They had to stitch it up, and he’s on heavy-duty antibiotics because of all the bacteria and, well, shit in the intestines.”Kaia winces. I just nod. Facts are facts.“Maan says what likely saved him was getting his Goddess gift during the fight.”“His super strength helped?” Kaia asks, wide-eyed.Neither of us has gotten ours yet. Hell, Nathan hasn’t either, and he’s the oldest of our whole birthing group. Maybe now that I’m mated to Tomas, mine’s coming too.“She said it wasn’t just muscle—it made his whole body harder to hurt,” Jai explains. “Even the surgeons had a hard time. They had to use a silver-dipped needle to get through his tissue without dulling the gift too much. His skin wouldn’t take stitches—he’s got staples instead.”“That’s insan