Azalea POV

She was gone. And I watched in horror as Gannon stole her from me, clutching her to his chest, andI felt dead. Like I took my last breath when she did, all life left me. She died for me, and I feltcompletely and utterly numb until I heard his voice slice through the air as it mocked me. His slow,methodical clap made me see red as I lifted my head to see I was circled by the Landeena andValkyrie Guards, shielding me instead of fighting.

My eyes scanned the destruction to replace Kyson getting to his feet not far from me. The sight of mymate made my heart beat when Crux's voice brought me back to my surroundings.

He took Abbie from me. He wouldn't take my mate too. “I have waited for this day since I learned ofyour birth,” Crux laughed. My blood boiled and sizzled, and my skin warmed with rage.

“The almighty Landeenas finally fall. The Landeena Kingdom should have been mine! He promised itto me! I took down my own mother's Kingdom for it!" he yelled as everyone halted under his voice.The hunter's guns trained on us. They knew we were cornered and thought there was no way outfor us.

That fucking name! That fucking name everyone was obsessed with! The Landeena name meantnothing to me anymore. I know the sins that name carried. The heartache bestowed upon theKingdoms from it and the reign of terror it has caused.

I could feel the blood of that name burn through me along with my mothers, feel it in my toes asthey tingled along with my rage. Yet I wasn't just Landeena. My father's name brought shame to me.I no longer wanted it. Crux could have it. That name took more from me than anything else.

Yet as I watched Gannon clutch my sister's dead body in his arms as Liam tried to pry Abbie free ofhim, it angered me more. Gannon fights him, trying to draw her nearer, when Liam punches him andknocks him back, his hands replacing Gannon's as he brings his hand down on her chest, pumpingher heart as if he could save her and bring her back to us. Turning my head and seeing my mate onhis knees made pure white-hot rage sliver through me. The ground vibrated beneath me, and Icould feel its energy, breathing life into me like it was part of me.

“Your father lied to me, then took Tatiana as his Queen! His enemy! He took her as his Queen andbirthed her spawn! It was never yours, Azalea. Your father promised it to me.

The Landeena name was to be mine!” Crux roared in anger.

“You can have the fucking name!” I screamed in anger as I rose to my feet. My guard tensed andtook protective stances encircling me, but I wanted to see the face of the man who thought hewould be our downfall. See the life drain from his eyes when I took it from him.

"Stand down!” I scream at my guard when I see them move to protect me. My command rings outloud, my people drop to their knees, and Crux laughs, clapping his hands slowly as he strolls closer.Kyson's fear bleeds into me, and I could feel his eyes on me, his heart beating in his chest in syncwith mine as I stared down Crux, who smiled sadistically.

“Landeena used to be Gods! The Landeena’s were feared among the Lycania Kingdoms,

and your father brought shame to the name! But not anymore. His reign ends here, today, with you,just like the Azures. You're all that's left,” Crux called out to me.

He was right because I could feel their blood singing in my veins, feel the power that had awokenand now writhed through me, strong like a flexing muscle. He was right. I am Landeena and Azureby blood, but that is not all.

"You're wrong. The Landeena’s and Azures may be dead,” I tell him.

“Almost,” Crux said, pointing to me. I laugh, the sound wicked as the ground beneath my feetbegins to shake, my aura pressing out, and I feel its strength as it wraps around my people like ashield.

“But I am not a Landeena or Azure. I am Valkyrie! And you shall not take my Kingdom!”

Kyson POV

I couldn't move as the power of her command rolled over everyone forcing us to our knees as shestood off, glaring daggers at Crux. Her eyes, emblazoned with her anger, glowed like beacons in thenight.

“But I am not a Landeena or Azure. I am Valkyrie! And you shall not take my Kingdom!” Azalearoared when I felt her anger erupt like lava spewing from a mountainous volcano. The hunter's fearburned the air with a thick stench. I wanted to gag at the scent as their guns started going off asthey unleashed their bullets, whizzing through the sky yet stopping on a shield she created aroundus, bouncing off its walls as she lifted her hands.

The ground split, creating a crater dividing us from them as vines shot from the ground, wrappingaround the hunters like tentacles and ripping them into the earth as the violence from her ragefueled her guards’ angry roars. Fire lit up the sky as her anger scorched the air around us andburned everything it touched, turning the grass black as it seared the

earth, yet locked under the safety of her aura’s shield, it did not touch us.

Crux's eyes widen as the sky darkens, and he realizes he didn't beat her. He awoke her. A Kingdomshall fall, but in its place, the Empress of Lycania rises.

Her power turned the place dark as night. The clouds rolled across the sky angrily, furious as theskies screamed down just as hell reigned down on earth when her powers awakened, coming forth.Lightning streaked the sky and hit the ground, burning caverns into the earth as the volts plungedinto our castle, obliterating everything in its path.

Rocks and mortar exploded from my castle as it crumbled and broke, sending the debris hurtlingtoward us. Yet they couldn't break past the barrier which she created. I gasped at the power, feelingit writhing through the bond and healing every inch of me. As she raised her arms, her shieldshuddered as the wind whipped and howled around us when her scream of anguish from everyoneshe had lost, the ghosts of everything that tainted and haunted her, exploded in a war cry ofcommand

I now understood what the history books spoke of when they said the Landeena and Azure power.They were indeed Gods as I watched the air ripple with screams as her soul erupted from her like ashock wave, and it flattened everything in its path as it burst free of her.

The forest was flattened to the earth, our home. Our Kingdom was reduced to rubble as if ahurricane of her anger wiped everything out. Only leaving us as the bodies of our enemies as theyexploded with her anger and blood rained from the skies, their blood staining us and bleeding backinto the earth.

Just as fast as it erupted, it stopped, the silence so deafening I wasn't sure we survived it as hershield dropped, and I was able to move to her. Her sadness split her heart down the middle andtore her apart as I grabbed her. I clutch her tightly, hanging on to my lifeline, which is her.tttttttttttt

Liam POV

Dustin and I tried to remove Abbie from Gannon, but he refused to let go. Gannon wails as I rip herout of his arms, and Dustin all but tackles him to stop him from trying to take her from me. I tried torevive her. Gannon wouldn't survive this, not this time. Sia was one thing, but Abbie was hiseverything which is exactly why I had been feeding her my blood for days now, filling all her drinksin her fridge with my blood.

She made Ganno promise not to change her, yet I never made that same promise, and I refused towatch my best friend tear himself apart again if she tried to commit suicide.

After everything she had endured and survived, I knew she could survive this. Abbie was a fighter; Icould bring her back.

Dustin tries to rip me off her seeing my attempts to revive her futile, yet they didn't know I had beenfeeding her blood; I growl, shoving him back. “Come on, Abbie,” I growl furiously. Dustin and Treygrab me, hauling me off just as Gannon holds her again. Clutching her tighter.

“She's gone. She's gone. There is nothing you can do,” Dustin tells me, but I shake my head,punching him before reaching for her again.

“No! I have been feeding her my blood,” I snarled, tossing him off and placing my hands back in thecenter of her chest and performing CPR while praying we weren't too late. No sooner did the wordsleave my lips; however, did we hear her gasp. I blink, unable to believe my eyes while Gannonrocked back and forth, wailing loudly at his lost Love, her eyes open dazedly. Yet, they were obsidianas her hand rose and clutched Gannon'’s arms, making him jump as she sucked in a breath and hereyes returned to their emerald color, life returning to her deathly pale skin, and I fell back on my ass."Abbie?" Azalea whispered, choking on her sob as Abbie’s hand moved to Gannon’s hair.

"Abbie!" Azalea screamed, and Gannon jumped at the feel of Abbie’s hand in his hair as he lifted hishead. I sagged against Dustin, collapsing between his legs as he breathed heavily.

“I told you, brother, I wouldn't let you lose her again,” I breathe out, catching my breath.

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