Demonic Pornstar System novel Chapter 1033

Chapter 1033: Messy Aftermath

Kaiden Grey was still half-transformed as his demonic roar rolled through the ruined garden. Luna caught his face between her hands before the last broken glass struck the paving.

"Kai... Please... Look at me."

Blood ran over her fingers from the horns pushing through his temples. She moved her thumbs away from the wounds, trying to hold him without hurting him, while his gaze remained fixed on the empty air behind her.

He could still reach for it. There had to be a way to open that passage again.

Viktor had been right there.

"Please stop doing this to yourself," Luna whispered. "You’re bleeding. Kai, I..."

Her voice failed, and Kaiden finally looked down at her.

Luna was trying so hard to sound reassuring. Her lips trembled around the next attempt, her eyes wet as she searched his face for some sign that he was listening.

She had just watched her brother disappear among the people who’d attacked them, and she was standing here worrying about the blood on his face.

"I’m here," she managed. "Could you just... stay here with me?"

The question hurt worse than Viktor’s attacks.

Kaiden had been staring at where the bastard had gone while Luna stood within reach of his arms, asking for him. She needed him so badly that she could barely get the words out, and she was still trying to take care of him first.

"Luna..."

He let Viktor’s torn shirt fall from his gauntlet and brought his hands to her waist.

The pressure beneath his skin resisted him for a moment. Kaiden drew a rough breath and forced the transformation to stop, holding himself still through the pain as the horn tips ceased pushing outward.

His next breath came easier. The black veins along his forearm began to fade beneath Luna’s fingers as she lowered one hand to his wrist.

"There you are..." she whispered, attempting a smile that broke before she finished it.

Kaiden pulled her against his chest.

Luna’s arms went around him so tightly that his injured ribs protested. He held her closer anyway, tucking her head beneath his chin while her first sob caught against his shirt.

"I’ve got you."

"I know. I know, I just..."

She couldn’t finish. Her fingers closed in the cloth at his back, and the effort she’d been making to keep herself together gave out in his arms.

Kaiden bent over her, holding her through the tears. She had screamed at Theodore to stop, tried to reach him, nearly followed him into a closing portal, and then turned straight to Kaiden because he was hurting too.

He wanted to take every part of this away from her. He could only hold her, and when she pressed herself closer, he understood that she was asking him to keep doing exactly that.

"I’m sorry," he murmured into her purple hair. "I wanted to catch him."

"You nearly got taken too." Luna’s words came muffled against his chest. "I saw that fucking thing pulling you away, and then Theo..."

She shook her head against him and clung harder.

"Please don’t apologize right now."

Kaiden kissed her hair and stayed with her while the reinforcements spread through the garden.

...

Viktor Thorne struck the wall of the passage shoulder-first as the portal collapsed behind him.

Pain shot down the arm Yunohana had cut open. He pushed away from the concrete, leaving a broad smear of blood, and looked back at the sealed end of the corridor.

"Fuck."

One of the vampires waiting beneath the ceiling lights stepped toward him with a folded coat.

"Sir, your arm-"

"Is fine."

Viktor took the coat and worked his wounded arm into its sleeve. The fabric caught against exposed flesh, but he pulled it into place while examining the survivors crowded farther down the corridor.

Too many familiar faces were missing. The men who’d made it through were leaning against the walls or sitting on the floor, pressing their hands over wounds that continued to bleed between their fingers.

Grey had torn through them.

Viktor touched the ragged opening in his shirt where Kaiden’s gauntlet had caught him. He remembered the sudden loss of strength, the knee driving into his ribs, and Yunohana pulling his arm out for another cut.

His mouth tightened with displeasure.

"Boss!" David pushed away from the man supporting him. "What the hell was that? You said we’d have him contained! That bastard almost-"

Viktor slapped him across the face.

David hit the opposite wall with a crack, then dropped onto his hands and knees. Blood spilled from his mouth onto the concrete.

The men beside him hurried out of Viktor’s path.

"I watched you hide behind people who were dying for you," Viktor said. "Then one of them had to remind you that you could cast."

David spat a tooth into his palm. "You..."

He looked up, saw Viktor waiting for him to finish, and lowered his face again.

Theodore’s gaze moved toward him without quite finding his face. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

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