Page 158 of Hell Fae King

Because my Phoenix took me deep underground.

Not Vivaxia. My animal. He’dashedus here. To protect me. And to continue our hunt.

But why would you leave Cami?I asked him, confused by his choice.

He purred inside me as Ajax said something—something I didn’t hear because I was too busy trying to understand my beast.

We need to find Typhos.

I understood that much.

However, I didn’t understand why we’d abandoned?—

Power flooded my soul, causing flames to explode from my fingertips. Ajax jumped back with a sharp curse, one that echoed in my ears as I focused on that inner fire.Typhos’s Source.

My Phoenix paced again, urging me to move, his impatience curling deep within me.

This was his way of helping Cami—we need to find Typhos and his Source… for Cami.

I wasn’t sure how he knew it, but the jolt of energy seemed to confirm that knowledge somehow. If I didn’t know better, I’d say the Source was talking to my Phoenix.

Just like it’d been communicating with Cami as she’d led us to the Morpheus Kingdom.

“Typhos’s emergency protocols have been triggered,” I realized aloud, aware of his strategy because I knew him. I’d been inside his mind for so long that I knew how hethought. “We need to find him.”Thatwas why my Phoenix had insisted on ashing us down here. He’d been leading me to Typhos until Ajax had interrupted our hunt with his portal.

Unless Vivaxia is fucking with my mind,I thought in the next instant.

But I was already shaking my head in denial. Because no, this direction felt too right. Typhos’s Source had taken over. It was in self-preservation mode. I could feel it now, my energy swirlinginside me and connecting to the beacon of power with a single thought. Just like I always had.

Typhos had gifted me with that connection, providing me with an outlet.

It might not bemySource, but we knew each other well. Because I was mated to it as much as I was mated to Typhos.

As well as Cami.

“I can feel her,” I whispered, noting the way her energy curled around inside Typhos’s Source. “I can feel Cami.”

“Where is she?” Ajax demanded.

I shook my head, unable to answer that. All I could say was “She’s okay.” I looked at him as I repeated, “We need to find Typhos.Now.”

I didn’t wait for him to reply; I just started running into the darkness.

Ajax cursed behind me, then cast a spell that sent some sort of firefly racing ahead of me to light up the tunnel.

He knew how my beast worked—once we had a scent, we couldn’t be stopped.

I’d been dazed before, confused by how I’d ended up in the tunnels. Perhaps I’d even been fighting off a hint of Vivaxia’s magic—one I’d narrowly escaped, thanks to my Phoenix ashing me out just in time.

Whatever the case, my head was clear now, and I knew where to go.

These were the caverns Typhos had created after his first fall, the land deep under the Hell Fae Realm that no one but him ever traversed.

Except for maybe Melek. I suspected Typhos allowed him to venture down here. But knowing Melek, he hadn’t visited often.

And as for me, I’d only been down here once—the day of Typhos’s fall.

It didn’t bode well that he was underground now because it suggested he’d fallen…again.