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  Savage As Hell

  The Demon Academy: Book Three

  G. Bailey

  Contents

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  Description

  Prologue

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Chapter 18

  Chapter 19

  Chapter 20

  Epilogue

  Note From The Author.

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  22. Consequence

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  This academy is going to hell...

  There can only be one king of hell and only one fallen angel to hold the title. I didn’t know that until my angel fell into hell for me. Morgan challenges the current king, with the whole of DA brought to hell to watch. The winner not only gets the title, but he also gets control of everything hell holds.

  Including me.

  I just hope my angel doesn’t lose too much of himself to save me in the end.

  I won’t let him. I can’t.

  With my wolf, my demon princes and my angel, I should be able to survive hell. Right?

  Once the fallen fall, they must never rise again...

  18+ RH and the final book in The Demon Academy Series.

  Prologue

  Morgan

  “What happens when an angel falls into hell?” I enquire, leaning back in my desk, causing my chair to scrape across the stone floor. Jonathon nudges my side, begging me to stop asking the teacher questions. He would rather get through the class as quickly as possible, and I wouldn’t.

  I want to know everything about being an angel. Everything. Master Gabriel turns back to look at me and the class, crossing his arms over his white shawl as we all await his answer.

  Pursing his lips, he leans on the edge of the desk. “Your wings will burn away and your soul will change in a manner that cannot be explained even in this world of magic you find yourself in. It is forbidden for angels to enter hell, no matter the reason, no matter the cause. Once you fall, you cannot ever rise as the angel you were. It is a fate worse than death.”

  “Lucifer leaves hell all of the time, so that doesn’t make sense,” Jonathon adds.

  “I do not mean in that way. Your soul can never leave hell, even if your body does. We all treat ourselves like our bodies are more important, but your soul is everything. A taint of that darkness would destroy you,” he pauses. “Lucifer couldn’t leave hell in the beginning, not until he found a way. I’m sure that is a secret Lucifer would not share with anyone.”

  “Good thing none of us would ever go into hell then,” Isabella Louton jokes from the row behind me.

  “I would never. Not for anything,” I add in.

  “Have any of you boys been in love?” Master Gabriel asks, and there is a resounding chorus of nos. All of us died before we turned twenty-one, and I doubt anyone in here is much older. There wasn’t much time in our lives for real love. “Lucifer fell for love, and it is a power like none other. Does he regret his decision? I suspect so, but if it was true love, I doubt he does. Magic and power are only two of the most powerful things in this world. Love is the third and, without doubt, the most alluring. Do not promise things you cannot judge in this moment, only make the decision in your mind that there is a great price for falling.”

  I muse on the idea for a moment. “If someone truly loved you, they would not want you to fall.”

  “What if it was not their choice?” he asks, and the bells ring to signal the end of class. “We will discuss this further in our next lesson.”

  “Blessed be the angels,” I say with the rest of the students as I stand up, my thoughts lingering on the idea of a fallen angel.

  It sounds like a fate worse than death.

  1

  The welcome committee of hell sucks

  Fire flickers and spits across my skin, not quite burning me but feeling like I’m seconds away from it as I suck in a deep breath that feels like fire. The heat from hard, rocky ground I’m lying on itches my back, but I don’t move. I can’t. I stare up at the entrance to hell, the empty tunnel of fire that spirals up so high, seeming like it never ends as fire burns constantly. I’m in the one place I never wanted to be, but I wouldn’t have regretted it, not once.

  That is until Morgan followed me.

  Why did he do it? The answer flickers through my mind even when I don’t want to admit the real reason, the answer I know is true. Saving Sera’s soul and life was worth coming to hell, knowing I am going to figure out a way to escape my marriage promise, but with Morgan losing his wings, I didn’t pay the worst price. I sit up slowly, feeling every inch of my body resisting the movement like there are a million stone cats sitting on me. Rubbing the dust and ash from my crusty eyes, I see that I’m in a cage made of bones that I refuse to touch, and there are dozens of cages all around me of the same make. Totally gross. Some hang off the walls, some have people in them that seem in a coma-like state, and others have nothing more than dust and bones rattling around. Strangely, there is a breeze which is almost cold, cooling down my skin as I try to remember how I got in this cage in the first place.

  Surely there is more to hell than this room?

  I just remember falling and then seeing Morgan following me through the portal into hell before it slammed shut. I don’t think I could ever forget seeing his wings burn away or hearing the screams that he made, but everything after that is just blank. I touch the side of my head where it briefly stings like an old injury as I stand up, and my fingers graze against the horns in my hair. Lifting my hands, I see my fingers are rigidly tipped and black down to my hands. My clothes have seen better days, and I’m literally covered in dust and ash.

  At least I think it’s ash and not ground up bones.

  I’m telling myself it is ash. Ash.

  “Shit, I need to get out of here,” I mumble to myself, hoping my demon will talk to me. I must be in my demon body down here, so surely she is here to help. Where the hell is she? I close my eyes and try to talk to her in my mind, but after a long pause, I realise she isn’t there anymore.

  Perhaps she hates me now because of the choice I made. Perh
aps hell bonds our souls or something. I know hell does something to young demons—it’s why The Demon Academy is on earth and not down here. But what has it done to me?

  Sera is alive, and I won’t ever regret that. I just can’t.

  Hearing footsteps, I look up to see a shadow walking towards my cage just before the light highlights his bright blond hair, bright green eyes and stupid smirk in a posh suit that looks out of place here. “Ah, my queen is awake. Will you behave if I let you out?”

  “You call me your queen and yet you lock me up. Seems like you can’t make your mind up, Lucifer,” I reply, crossing my arms and holding my chin up high. He will not beat me down or intimidate me into doing anything for him or even agreeing with him. We both stare each other down for a long time, and every second he smiles like this is all some messed-up game.

  It sure isn’t going to be a messed-up game when his new queen stabs him in his useless heart.

  With a long, over the top sigh, he finally says, “You still haven’t answered my question.”

  And I’m not going to, asshole. “Where is Morgan?”

  “Recovering from his fall,” Lucifer answers, his smug ass face suggesting he is happy to tell me that because he knows it’s not what I want to hear.

  “Where is Morgan exactly?” I practically growl.

  “I won’t kill him, if that is what you are concerned about,” Lucifer muses, stepping forward further into the light caused by the fires above, holding keys in his hands that clink against each other. “Once he comes into his full power, I will absorb it and then kill him. He has about twenty-four hours, but do not think I’m going to let you see your lover, Alexandria.”

  Rushing forward, I grip the bars as desperation takes over me. “You c-can’t—”

  “Morgan doesn’t matter, Alexandria. We have a mating ceremony to prepare for. After all, you made me a deal, and you can’t break a deal with the devil,” he says, flashing me a grin.

  I stare into his empty eyes, my heart feeling like it has been smashed into a dozen pieces as I start to realise I might not have a way to save Morgan. My game plan was to kill Lucifer at the first chance I got, but how can I kill him before he gets a chance to kill Morgan? My game plan might have taken me years. Gritting my teeth, I try to hold in a scream that wants to escape. “I. Know.” After he smiles at me, he unlocks the cage door and pushes the door open, the keys disappearing in red smoke.

  “Come on. I want to show you our castle and home.” The devil holds his hand out, and I glare at him, shoving his hand out of the way as I walk out of the cage. Step one, escape the cage. Step two, save Morgan. Step three, kill Lucifer.

  I can do this…but first I need to find Morgan. I turn to look back at Lucifer who is strolling behind me like he is attached on a piece of string I want to cut lose.

  “Where are we?” I ask him. I might as well get information on hell while I’m here.

  “This is the first section of hell, where we keep the newcomers, of course.”

  “Of course. It’s super inviting,” I sarcastically mutter. “How many sections of hell are there?”

  “Eleven. An odd number, I know,” he comments, like it’s something he has thought about a lot.

  “Which section is Morgan on?” I ask.

  “He is in my castle on section eight, where I will take you if you ever stop talking. Come along.” Lucifer walks across the rocky ground, and I don’t have a choice but to follow him as I try to make a plan to get myself out of this situation. At the other side of the cavern are four sets of shiny black doors. They are super modern for…hell. I cross my arms, feeling sweat trickling down the back of my neck as Lucifer presses a button on the side of the middle doors. The doors make a bing noise as they open to reveal a small room.

  “Is this a lift? In hell?” I stupidly ask, as it’s clearly a lift... I just didn’t expect it.

  “Why are you surprised? Did you expect hell to be rocks and fire demons running around naked?” he asks as we both step inside.

  “Was it ever like that?” I reply, actually curious.

  “Before I got here, yes. I made hell civilised,” he proudly comments. “It is now everything the human world needs.”

  “And you made yourself king as payment,” I remind him. He isn’t a saint who did it all for free. I hate how DA all but worships this monster. He is selfish, and he has never done anything that wasn’t for himself.

  “We all take a price for our actions, Alexandria. Your price was a half breed mutt’s life,” he reminds me.

  “Her name is Serafin, and no matter what her blood makes her, she is worth any price.”

  “We will see how many years it takes you to regret the price you promised. I believe it won’t be many,” he says, and he laughs, pressing one of the eight buttons on the side. If there are eleven sections, then why aren’t there more number buttons?

  “Do you regret much, Lucifer?” I muse, stopping him laughing all together. “I think you’ve made worse decisions than I ever have, and you have nothing more than hell full of disloyal subjects to show for it.” His hand smacks across my face, slamming me into the back of the lift, and I tumble to the floor. Lucifer doesn’t look down at me as I hold my throbbing cheek, tasting blood in my mouth from where I bit my cheek. The lift goes down, making butterflies flutter in my stomach even as it feels like my cheek is healing super quickly. Must be a hell gift.

  The black glass doors do little to hide the city as it comes into view in the blink of an eye. A city in hell, full of demons, who knew? High rise towers fill the main part of the city, made of pure black stone with black windows. The tops are shaped like spears, stretching into the fire covered ceiling. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of little stone houses around the centre of the city, and beyond that is acres of red leaved trees of all different sizes.

  Hell is beautiful.

  “Look at my kingdom of hell, Alexandria, and tell me if I regret anything.”

  2

  Cat for luck, mother for love?

  Javier

  “Has she woken up yet?” Nikoli’s question is more of a demand than anything else. I peel my gaze away from Sera lying on Lexi’s bed, to where he stood in the doorway, his shadow hanging over me from the light behind him. I gently place Sera’s pale hand down before getting up and walking over to him, tugging the door shut behind me. Sera’s life might have been saved, but her soul needs to recover. Or that’s what one of the cooky teachers here told me when they came and checked up on her as I asked them to. After Eike threatened to kill all the teachers and hang their hearts around Sera to help her heal, they quickly came to our aid.

  I don’t think my best friend would have done that. At least, hopefully not.

  “What do you think? She died, she needs time to heal,” I all but growl at him as he walks away from me into Lexi’s living room. It still smells like her in here, and everything in this place makes me want to hit something. Glancing at Nikoli, I realise he is as fucked up as I am without Lexi here. This apartment smells of her, settling me and my wolf a little inch away from losing our shit and trying to dig our way down into hell to get our mate back. Closing my hands into fists, I push my wolf as far back as I can, knowing shifting and letting him take control would be very bad for everyone.

  And it wouldn’t get Lexi back.

  Lexi saved my sister at the price of her own life, the price of going to hell and god knows what else she gave up. I love her more for it, but I hate that there was no other way and that Lucifer has her now. She is my mate, my soul, my everything in this world, and I knew it the second I broke into her apartment and she stood up to me like I wasn’t an alpha wolf she should have been scared of.

  Lexi isn’t scared of anything, or she never shows that emotion to anyone, and right now I need to be the same. To be strong and make a decent plan with these demons she loves to get her back.

  “The fucking useless headmaster says hell is banned to everyone and all portals have been locked from
the inside. He doesn’t have a way to help us get in,” Nikoli explains. Claus punches the wall, setting it on fire a little before he stalks away to pace in front of the window where he has been for a long time.

  “I told you how to get into hell, but you have all ignored me,” a voice cuts into the silence, and we all turn to look at her sitting on the counter.

  “Because your way is fucking crazy, Mother,” Claus shouts at the cat. How this cat is their mother, I don’t want to know. Either way, the twins have serious mummy issues going on that is making the tension far worse. “In fact, don’t talk, or I’m throwing you out the window over the cliff like I should have done when we got back here. Maybe you can shift into a fish and swim the fuck away.”

  “Maybe she is right…” I drawl, remembering the cat’s advice she tried to give us when we first got here.

  “Lilith suggested using an angel to open a portal to hell. Unfortunately, our only angel friend just jumped into hell before the gate closed in our faces,” Nikoli reminds me. “I doubt a fallen angel inside hell is going to be any use. We will be lucky if Morgan isn’t fighting Lucifer, and Lexi doesn’t get caught in the middle before we get there.”

  “I have an angel friend you can trust. He is a friend of Alexandria’s and Morgan’s. He will help her,” the cat-demon mother suggests.