Surprise Invasion III

Damonq inched closer to the open door. Inside he could see a second female, and this one looked very young, maybe in her early twenties.

She was chained to the wall and hadn't fared any better than the other woman, maybe worse.

She'd been severely beaten. Her face was swollen and bruised. Streaks of blood were smeared at her rib cage and along her right arm, where there was a large cut.

Eugen stomped back to the girl and grabbed her throat, his thumb forcing her face up. "If you don't give Levon the information he wants this time, I'm going to hurt you like you've never been hurt."

A malicious smile revealed his spiked, stained teeth. "Or I'll tell him you've deceived him all this time and you don't know how to undo the mage’s spell."

Damonq had continued floating, inching his way around Eugen, but that brought him up short.

The mage should be Xav. The latter had been one of the most powerful mages ever born. He was wholly evil and had almost succeeded in stamping out the ancient pe