Primal Heat 05 - Darkness Reborn
her. Kane lunged for her hand, and her fingers touched his as it sucked her down, closing over her head. Kane! Her fingers slipped out of his grasp, and then she was sucked away.
Sarah! Kane's anguished bellow filled her mind, and then it was gone, and all she could hear was the mindless screams of thousands of people being sucked to their doom.
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"Sarah!" Kane bellowed with raw terror as she disappeared into the muck. He immediately opened his mind to her. He found her instantly, and he tried to dematerialize...and nothing happened. "Shit!" He frantically charged through the sludge and dove into the mess where he'd seen her go down. The mud was thick and toxic, burning his skin as he fought to swim through it. The mire was blocking his path, not letting him through. Panic assaulted him, and he fought harder against the muck. "Sarah!"
A cold hand suddenly grabbed him around the neck, yanked him out of the mire and flung him into the woods. He landed on hard ground, and immediately began swinging his flail at the earth to dig through it to Sarah. Sarah! I'm coming!
No response. It was as if she were dead. "No!" He screamed his rage, his desperation, his fury as he fought harder against the earth that had suddenly turned hard again. Taunting him. Not letting him through. He tried to dematerialize again, and nothing happened. "Shit!"
"Sucks, doesn't it?"
Kane whirled around and saw Luc lounging against a blackened tree trunk. His body was in shadows, undulating in and out of focus. His hair was streaked with soot, and his skin looked noxious and poisoned. His face was bony and haunted, but his eyes were glittering with power and intention. "I sat there and fought for Elizabeth after you killed her, but I couldn't save her." Luc's eyes narrowed. "Do you know why I couldn't save her?"
Kane clenched his flail, quickly assessing the situation. His entire team was gone, sucked into the muck with Sarah. Ryland, you find her under there and keep her the fuck alive. No answer. It was as if they were all dead to him. The only living creatures were Kane and Luc. "No. Tell me." His instincts were screaming at him to attack, to destroy Luc, but he didn't move. He knew Sarah would still be alive. Toxic swampland couldn't kill her. He knew it. He kept telling himself she was okay, trying to hold his shit together long enough to figure out how to get to her.
He was too experienced as a warrior to make a move without a plan, and he forced himself to stand still as his mind frantically sifted through possibilities.
"Because I'm bound to this hell," Luc spat out. "I can never leave, until I find a replacement."
"So I hear." Kane looked down at the earth that had swallowed Sarah. It was solid now. Locking her away from him. Fuck that. It couldn't be solid. There had to be a way through.
Luc hadn't moved, and he was watching Kane with an interested gleam. "There's no way through. I control the earth." And at his word, the earth began to seethe again. Kane dove into the earth, and it went solid before he hit it.
Kane! Sarah's voice burst into his mind, and it was torn with agony. Pain. Suffering. Hell.
His adrenaline went haywire, and he gripped his flail. Sarah! Call me to you! He felt a sharp gasp of pain as if she'd been struck, and then she screamed. His entire body began to shake with the need to save her, and he felt dark, brutal anger rolling through him. "Let her go, you bastard!"
Luc grinned. "Make me."
Sarah screamed again, and her suffering broke through the last reserves of Kane's control. He launched himself at Luc, and slammed his flail toward the male's head—only the demon turned to smoke and disappeared as Kane reached him. Kane landed and whirled around as Luc reformed behind him. Sarah screamed again in his head, tearing apart the last of Kane's sanity.
He bellowed with rage and attacked Luc, swinging ferociously. Luc howled with maniacal glee and attacked him, striking with hard, fast blows that inflamed Kane even further. He couldn't even think, couldn't plan, couldn't focus. Darkness just streamed through him, giving him strength and power, ripping through his controls until he was nothing but pain, violence and destruction.
He welcomed it. He let it consume him. He allowed it to infuse his body with power. His muscles strengthened, his speed quickened, and his body magically turned from flesh to smoke. Luc struck at Kane, but he had already turned to smoke and the older warrior's blade went
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