Demonic Pornstar System novel Chapter 950

Chapter 950: Welcome Aboard, Flame Monarch

Four hundred people were still gawking on Kaiden’s gravel, and they had been gawking since the moment he told the Flame Monarch there was a spot left on his roster.

It showed no sign of stopping. Recruits who had spent the previous minute too frightened to breathe were spending their voices freely now.

Kaiden put his hand out.

The lot dropped into silence fast enough that the scaffolding netting three stories up became the loudest thing on the compound, because the whole crowd had just worked out what they were about to watch.

Scarlet looked down at the offered hand. She had come out of the sky ready to be haggled with, and the plain open palm in front of her took a full second off her.

"I know the contracts aren’t signed yet, but... Welcome aboard, Scarlet," Kaiden said.

Her grin came back all at once, and it was enormous.

She took his hand and shook it hard enough that he felt it up in his shoulder, which took some doing, and she held on a beat past where the handshake ended.

Then the lot blew open.

Whatever had come out of those recruits the first time had been shock.

This one was theirs, and it was louder, and men and women who had been Eclipse for all of two days stood on a construction site howling at the sight of two hands shaking.

The noise ran well past the point where it should have died, because these were people who had thrown in with a guild that wasn’t a week old, with no roof over half of it and no record whatsoever, and all of them had spent the days since fielding the same question from relatives and old teammates about what exactly they thought they were doing.

They had just been handed the answer.

They were part of the greatest guild that would ever exist.

Individual voices started getting out of the noise after that, none of them coordinated and most of them landing on top of each other.

"FLAME MONARCH!"

"DO IT AGAIN!"

"SIGN MY GAUNTLET!"

Eugene Wexler had not lowered the salute he’d thrown at Scarlet when she climbed out of the crater, and now he had a reason to keep holding it, so he kept holding it, until Vanessa Sloan reached over without looking and pushed his arm down for him.

Brittany was still sitting on the gravel where she had gone down. Trisha crouched beside her and patted her shoulder without once looking away from the redhead.

Then one voice got out ahead of all of them, high and cracking and completely unashamed of itself, from a girl three rows into lane two with both hands cupped around her mouth.

"WELCOME TO ECLIPSE, LADY SCARLET! I LOVE YOU!"

Scarlet let go of Kaiden’s hand.

She turned around on the glass she’d made of his parking, planted one boot forward, threw both arms out wide, and let go of every scrap of fire she had been politely keeping to herself since she landed.

It went up off her in a column that cleared the scaffolding and put orange on the underside of a cloudless morning. The heat that rolled off it arrived warm, which was a choice she had made, and every person on that gravel felt her make it.

"NO!" she roared back down the length of it, and the fire roared with her. "I LOVE YOU!"

The girl in lane two went down like a dropped coat.

The two recruits beside her caught her under the arms and hauled her upright without either of them looking away from Scarlet.

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