Fire Kissed: A Rejected Mates Romance (The Rejected Realms Series Book 2) Read online

  It’s too late. I can’t reach him. I’m pulled through the exit.

  And his name is eaten up into the nothingness as I’m torn away from the realm of Hell.

  17

  Muspelheim

  Rhys

  Aric’s name is still a scream against my lips when I land on my knees in a pile of ash. The smell of sulfur is harsh against my throat, but the tears stinging there are even worse.

  “Take me back!” I stand abruptly and glare up at Torben.

  A fire reflects in his green eyes, his gaze scanning our surroundings from over the top of my head.

  “I can’t.” He turns distractedly on his heels, but I pull him back to me.

  “I said take me the fuck back!”

  “Rhys . . .” Latham says with too much uncertainty.

  But I won’t listen.

  I saved Kyvain from that cage Hela put him in. I saved him. And he’ll be my downfall.

  “Take me back to him!” I scream it so loudly that my own agony carries in the dry wind along with so many other pleas of sorrow.

  And it’s only then that I actually hear them.

  All of them.

  Countless screams run wild in the air. Roars rumble around along with the misery. My mouth opens without words. I turn slowly, and dust and fire swirl in the wind.

  The sounds of torment and the fire ripping up from dry earth are what I envisioned Hell would have looked like.

  Except the world around me isn’t the realm we left. Not at all. Batlike creatures circle us high in the sky. Dozens of people run screaming into the vast wasteland, trying and failing to get away. A monstrous, two-headed beast with the teeth of a shark and the wings of a dragon roars down on us.

  “Muspelheim,” Latham whispers.

  That single word brings flashes of a book to life. The nightmarish illustrations are fresh in my mind.

  We’re not in Hell anymore.

  We’re in the realm of monsters.

  The End.

  Thank you so much for reading about my favorite misfit shifters! The final book, Soul Kissed, is now available on preorder!

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  Also by A.K. Koonce

  Reverse Harem Books

  The To Tame a Shifter Series

  Taming

  Claiming

  Maiming

  Sustaining

  Reigning

  The Monsters and Miseries Series

  Hellish Fae

  Sinless Demons

  Spiteful Creatures

  The Rejected Realms Series

  Hell Kissed

  Fire Kissed

  The Villainous Wonderland Series

  Into the Madness

  Within the Wonder

  Under the Lies

  Origins of the Six

  Academy of Six

  Control of Five

  Destruction of Two

  Wrath of One

  The Hopeless Series

  Hopeless Magic

  Hopeless Kingdom

  Hopeless Realm

  Hopeless Sacrifice

  The Secrets of Shifters

  The Darkest Wolves

  The Sweetest Lies

  The Royal Harem Series

  The Hundred Year Curse

  The Curse of the Sea

  The Legend of the Cursed Princess

  The Severed Souls Series

  Darkness Rising

  Darkness Consuming

  Darkness Colliding

  The Huntress Series

  An Assassin’s Death

  An Assassin’s Deception

  An Assassin’s Destiny

  Dr. Hyde's Prison for the Rare

  Escaping Hallow Hill Academy

  Surviving Hallow Hill Academy

  Paranormal Romance Books

  The Cursed Kingdoms Series

  The Cruel Fae King

  The Cursed Fae King

  The Crowned Fae Queen

  The Twisted Crown Series

  The Shadow Fae

  The Iron Fae

  The Lost Fae

  The Midnight Monsters Series

  Fate of the Hybrid, Prequel

  To Save a Vampire, Book one

  To Love a Vampire, Book two

  To Kill a Vampire, Book three

  About the Author

  A.K. Koonce is a USA Today bestselling author. She’s a mom by day and a fantasy and paranormal romance writer by night. She keeps her fantastical stories in her mind on an endless loop while she tries her best to focus on her actual life and not that of the spectacular, but demanding, fictional characters who always fill her thoughts.

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