Page 89 of Lethal Souls

“Either you jump or Selah kills everyone you love and forces you to watch.” She cocks a white brow. “Jumping seems like the easier option.”

“You’re such a b?—”

Hassha tips her chin with that same brow inclined, waiting for me to say it.

I smash my lips together.

“Jump,” she says once more.

I clench my fists.

“Willow’s blood is spilling,” she says.

I shake my head. “Stop.”

“You’ll never get to meet your innocent baby.”

“Hassha,” I growl, clenching my fists.

“The heads of your entire family and your mate will be placed on spikes, and Blackwater will be bathed in blood if you don’t?—”

A roar rips out of me as heat swirls through my veins.

Concentrate, a deep voice says.

The same voice I heard earlier.

The world around me burns red. The screams and chaos in the distance disappear. Then there’s a rapid drop in my stomach.

In one solid movement, I spring over the wall and land on the other side with crimson flames surrounding me.

I breathe raggedly as my cousins stand on the other side of the fire, their mouths ajar and their arms hanging limp at their sides.

“Love of Vakeeli,” Rowan breathes.

Juniper inches closer. “Caz, did you just?—”

“He jumped the bloody wall,” Killian gapes, eyes wide as the flames disappear.

A buzz rides along my skin. A prickle on the back of my neck. Before a hand can touch my shoulder, I catch it.

Hassha stares back at me with a smug smile.

“Did I not tell you training would begin now?” she quips.

“This isn’t the time for training,” I grumble.

“There is no proper time, Caspian. You learn it now, while under pressure, or you don’t learn at all. Stop blocking him and let him come to you. He wants to live through you, but he can’t do that if you continue to suppress him.”

I release her wrist and step back.

“Uh, Caz?”

I point my gaze to Rowan at my side, but he’s not looking at me. He’s staring at Alora’s palace.

From here, I immediately notice what’s out of the ordinary. Hanging from the side of the palace are six bodies dangling from rope.

All of them are similar to Selah’s creatures that just attacked Blackwater.