Reclaimed By My Alpha (Natalia and Andrei) novel Chapter 433

Chapter 433

Andrei’s POV

My world had narrowed to the rubies surrounding my cell. I felt like a bird in a gilded cage–a cage surrounded by glittering crimson, the color of blood and viscera. My wings were clipped by a madman who was wearing my face like a cheap costume.

With every moment I spent in that cell, I felt the strength sapping from my body like someone were siphoning it out through a garden hose. It could have been hours or minutes. I couldn’t tell. But the loss of strength was profound and unlike anything I’d felt before.

One minute, I had been my usual self–strong, powerful, unafraid and focused solely on protecting my mate.

Now I was a husk. Even turning my head was an effort. I would die here, sapped of everything I had until I was completely deflated like a cheap balloon; I was sure of it.

But then Grace and Damon arrived. Somehow, they were alive. I wasn’t sure where the army went, if any of them were even left, but my brother and his mate were here. They began smashing the rubies around my cell, and with each one, I felt a little more like myself again.

It wasn’t enough, though. My body still felt like a wet noodle when Grace finally broke into the cell and unlocked my chains. She helped me to my feet, but I had to lean on her heavily.

“Here. Take this,” she said, pressing something to my lips. It tasted foul, making me gag, but she shoved her hand over my mouth and forced me to swallow it.

I didn’t have time to wait for it to kick in. Damon was fighting off a wave of guards, and I needed to help him. With a groan, I shoved Grace behind me and stumbled forward, clutching the cell bars as I went.

The first few guards nearly got the best of me; if it weren’t for my brother’s quick movements, I might have been dead already by the slice of a blade or a blow to the head.

Somehow, though, my strength began to return, and I was able to fight alongside Damon. Whatever Grace had given me I could feel it working. It wasn’t quite enough to make me feel normal again, but it was certainly better than I’d felt before.

“He’s got Natalia!” Damon shouted as we slashed and cut and battered our way toward the stairs leading up. “And the twins!”

“The army?” I grunted.

“Gone. Retreated. Most of them are dead.” Damon grit his teeth as he slammed a soldier’s head into the wall, knocking him unconscious. “We have to hurry. If we take out the King, the soldiers might stop attacking.”

I wasn’t sure if I believed that. These… things were killing machines. But whatever the King had in store for Natalia and the twins, I couldn’t let it happen. I couldn’t let him age the children with those sickening rubies. Couldn’t let him harm my mate.

I would die in the process, if I had to, but I would not let him rip my family away.

We fought our way up the stairs, Grace pressed between us the entire way. She wasn’t a fighter; she didn’t belong here. But when she passed me another dose of whatever that medicine was, I took it gladly, choking it down, and felt a little more strength return.

But it wasn’t enough.

We didn’t make it far. How could we have? We were vastly outnumbered by those horrible creations of the King’s, all armed with ruby weapons. We made it maybe two steps Beyond the basement door before a row of them

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surrounded us.

Grace shrieked and clung to Damon as ruby spears poked at our sides, our backs, our legs. Surprisingly, they didn’t kill us. I thought they might just be toying with us, but then a few of the soldiers parted, and he pressed forward.

The King

He hardly looked like one now, though, did he? His countenance no longer copied mine, but rather returned to that twisted, horrible figure I saw carrying my mate away when he first locked me up,

His white hair fell in strings down his face, his mottled skin like paper stretched loosely across bones. I wasn’t sure how he stayed upright like that, but the fucker was decked out in rubies, so he probably had one for every decaying joint and leathery muscle.

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