My Alpha Stepbrother is My Bully (Nevaeh) novel Chapter 96

Chapter 96

Duncan

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When Blair and I burst out onto the main deck, my eyes almost pop out of their sockets. I’m not sure what I expected, but a freaking portal eating at the ship wasn’t it. I’ve honestly never seen a portal before, but the dragon within me seems to know that this is it-that’s a portal right there!

“This can’t be good…” I mutter under my breath.

“No shit! Half the ship has been eaten by that thing!” Blair says with her own eyes wider than saucers. “Maybe we should…umm…run? I don’t think staying here is safe.”

I wish Blair were wrong, but she isn’t. The portal swirls with energy and grows bigger and bigger the more of the ship disappears into it. Passengers scream and run to the lifeboats as the deck tilts at an alarming angle.

“I don’t think they will have time to make it away from here,” Blair comments.

“Probably not…”

“We won’t either,” she looks up at me. “Unless you shape-shift into a dragon.”

I swallow at that and grab Blair’s hand in my larger one, wishing I had the energy to shape-shift, but I don’t. My inner dragon isn’t responding to my call. He is weak since he hasn’t been with Blair, and I sigh.

“I can’t shape-shift.”

Blair gapes at me. “What do you mean you can’t shape-shift?!”

“Long story,” I say as I drag her through a pack of panicked people. The ship groans and shudders beneath our feet, metal screeching as it’s warped by the mysterious portal’s gravitational pull.

Suddenly, a violent lurch sends us sprawling. I lose my grip on Blair’s hand as we tumble across the slanting deck. Pain lances through my body as I collide with the railing, the wind knocked out of me.

“Duncan!” Blair shape-shifts into her lycan form while screaming my name, and soon, she reaches for me with her beastly hands.

I take them without hesitation, fear coursing through me when the portal grows in size after swallowing a few humans. What the hell did the portal do to them? Kill them on the spot after swallowing them?

Terror seizes my heart, and adrenaline surges through my veins as I meet Blair’s yellow eyes. “Whatever you do, please don’t let go. I don’t want the portal to take me.”

Blair speaks to me in her inhuman voice, “Trust me, I don’t want to let go, but the winds from the portal are growing stronger. I don’t know how long I can fight it!”

The winds howl around us as the portal’s pull intensifies. I cling to Blair’s fur, my knuckles turning white. Her claws dig into the deck, leaving deep gouges as she struggles to prevent us from getting sucked into the portal.

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Chapter 96

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All around us, passengers scream as they are eaten by the growing portal. Debris whips through the air-deck chairs, life preservers, shards of glass. A large chunk of metal narrowly misses my head.

“I can’t hold on for much longer!” Blair roars over the deafening noise. “The portal is too fucking strong! I’m sorry, Duncan! I tried…I fucking tried to keep us alive!”

“We won’t die!” I shout desperately, even though I have no idea if my words are the truth. “The portal won’t kill us. It will only take us on a journey, and if we get separated in there, I will find you! I promise!”

My words were meant to calm her, but Blair’s yellow eyes are filled with fear as she looks at me. “I’m not losing you again, Duncan! We go together or not at all!”

With a final, wrenching groan, the remnants of the ship break apart. Metal shrieks and splinters. The howling winds reach a fever pitch. And then we are airborne, hurtling helplessly toward the hungry maw of the portal.

Blair screams, but she doesn’t let go of me, and in an attempt to not get separated, I hug her larger body with both my arms. It’s the last thing I do before we are slung into an entirely different place.

The portal spits us out onto a white field of snow. The impact, however, isn’t as marshmallowy-soft as our surroundings look. My next breath gets kicked out of my chest when I land on the snow.

“Fucking hell…” I cough snow and stare up at the skies above me. For a moment, I just lie there without making a movie, more confused than ever while gasping for breath.

Where the fuck are we? Narnia?!

The icy wind bites at my skin, and snow seeps through my clothes, but the cold barely registers, thanks to my dragon genes. But that doesn’t mean I can lie here forever.

With a groan, I push myself up to a sitting position, wincing at the aches in my body from the rough landing. I squint against the glare of the sun on the snow, scanning my surroundings for any sign of Blair. Fear grips my heart when I don’t immediately spot her white lycan form against the matching terrain.

“Blair!” I call out, my voice sounding muffled in the vast expanse of white. “Blair, where are you?”

For a terrifying moment, there’s no response. Then, several yards away, a mound of snow shifts, and Blair emerges, shaking the powder from her fur. Relief floods through me at the sight of her, and I try to stand.

…only to fall back into the snow when my leg gives under my weight. When I look down at it, I realize it’s entirely broken and sticking out.

Pain shoots through my leg, stealing my breath. I try to move it, only to grit my teeth against the agony that rips through me. It’s definitely broken…and badly.

“Duncan!” Blair rushes over, shifting back to her human form as she kneels beside me in the snow. Her eyes widen when she sees the unnatural angle of my leg. “Oh, Moon Goddess, your leg…”

I try to wave off her concern, even as cold sweat beads on my forehead from the pain. “I’m fine, it’s not that bad.”

Blair gives me a look of disbelief. “Not that bad? Duncan, your bone is sticking out! We need to get you help.”

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She looks around at the barren, snow-covered landscape stretching as far as the eye can see in every direction. There is no sign of civilization, no indication of where that portal dumped us-just an endless sea of white.

Worry etches her brow as she turns back to me. “Can you heal yourself? Use your dragon magic or something?”

I shake my head, feeling more useless than ever. “My powers are nearly drained from the lack of…” I don’t finish my sentence out of embarrassment and Blair’s eyes narrow.

“Lack of what?!”

“Forget it…” I mutter. “We should just focus on finding shelter… Do you mind helping me up?”

Blair frowns at my evasion of the question but doesn’t push the issue, for which I’m grateful. She knows now is not the time for an interrogation.

“Of course,” she says softly, looping her arm around my waist and helping me to my feet…well, foot. I lean heavily on her, gritting my teeth against the pain.

“Fuck…it feels like I’m about to die.”

Blair rolls her eyes. “This won’t kill you, but we should definitely find shelter because it looks like there might be a storm coming in.” She nods at the frozen ocean, and I pause briefly to stare at the dark clouds rolling in. A storm is definitely coming.

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