Fortune Academy Underworld: Book Nine

Fortune Academy Underworld: Book Nine © 2023 by J.R. Thorn Cover Art by FrostAlexis Interior Illustration by Ricky Gunawan Book Cover Art All Persons Fictitious Disclaimer: This book is a work of fiction. Any similarity between the characters and situations within its pages and places or persons, living or dead, is unintentional and co-incidental. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system. Published in the United States. CONTENTS Blurb Claim Your Bonus Book! Author’s Note Prior to Reading Fortune Academy Underworld: Book 9 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 Author's Note Fortune Academy: Book 10 Dark Arts Academy: Chapter 1 Fortune Academy Underworld: Episode 1 About the Author Recommended Reading Order IMPORTANT! You’re going to need your vibrating friend of choice next to you when you pass chapter 4. You’ll thank me later. The worst has happened. Kaito says this can be fixed. But I don’t know if I have any fight left in me anymore. For their sake, I better get my shit together. We’ve come this far and my Virtues and I have been through life and death together. Nothing has changed. Nothing except Lucifer coming down on me with his fallen angel army. My Virtues who are still on earth are forced to bend to his control. And now the next Echo of Calamity is on its way, overlapping with a mission that I’ve yet to fulfill. And now a new ally has joined our ranks. Balthazar has a trick up his sleeve, one that’s going to change the fabric of the universe. But I’ll do anything for my Virtues, even if I have to rip the worlds apart. CLAIM YOUR BONUS BOOK! QUICK! Click Here and Download this NOW! Thank you for pre-ordering and/or supporting Fortune Academy during release week! As a thank-you, please enjoy this complimentary copy of “Burn in Darkness.” This is a must-read before Fortune Academy Underworld: Book Nine, so I encourage you to immediately click here to go download and read it right away! This download link will be disabled in a few days, so please do not wait! Claim your copy today! If you have clicked and your link is not working, please email [email protected] with proof of pre-order or purchase of Fortune Academy Underworld: Book Nine to be sent a free copy of “Burn in Darkness.” AUTHOR’S NOTE PRIOR TO READING FORTUNE ACADEMY UNDERWORLD: BOOK 9 We’re nearing the end of Lily’s series! Due to my muse’s antics, I can confirm that Book 9 is not the final book. But! It will set the stage for an incredible showdown. And lots of steamy scenes in-between. Lily has eight (8!!!) mates and every single one will get the screen-time he deserves! (Maybe rumor of one more…?) So we have a lot of ground—or skin?—to cover! This means there will be a Book 10 to conclude Lily’s story. Since Book 9 is information-heavy, I promise you have the reward of Logan’s and Kaito’s steamy solo-steam scenes once you reach Chapter 4… and the steam lasts for just as many chapters. My muse did not hold back. These chapters are worth the wait, trust me. And if you’re tempted to skip chapters 1-4 now that I’ve told you where the goods are, I suggest going back and reading them afterwards because you will be very lost! Of course if you just want some steam to start with, make sure you read Burn in Ruin and Burn in Darkness before proceeding! These are MM erotic novelettes that are packed to the brim with steam! So, if you’re ready, let’s jump on in and ride this wave of Calamity, shall we? See you on the other side… CHAPTER 1 Indecision rooted me to the bed as I toyed with my silk sleeve. The last thing I remembered was fighting for my life. Yet now I was in a place of luxury and garbed in dark blue silky pajamas. Talk about whiplash. What concerned me wasn’t the color or quality of the material, but the fact that the pajamas were perfectly fitted for someone with wings. Mine rested on my back unimpeded and the material neatly tucked around the arches. Wherever I was, they had experience with supernaturals. Frowning, I tried to recall where exactly here was. The last thing I remembered was Ares ordering myself and my mates to fight. To the death. Because he was a male muse, his words held power. I blinked a few times. The images of my mates trying to kill me, as well as each other, flashed over my eyes like a nightmare. I’m alive. But not everyone was so lucky. According to Kaito, I’d been out for weeks. My body ached with old injuries that assured me it hadn’t just been a dream. I hadn’t been able to save my mates. I was supposed to be a Champion of Calamity. What kind of Champion was I if I couldn’t even protect those I loved? My stomach twisted into knots thinking of how badly I’d failed. Kaito said Hendrik and Dante were dead. Bile rose the to back of my throat as I tried to digest that impossibility. I’d conquered death. Could I do the same for my mates? Desperate solutions already floundered in my mind, but I couldn’t ignore the glaring truth that Hendrik was a Dark Mage. There was no coming back from that. And aside from Logan, the rest of my mates were either imprisoned or under Lucifer’s control. Where did I go from here? I squeezed my eyes shut as the oppressive weight of failure settled squarely on my shoulders, then on my chest,