Sinful Mates 1-3 novel Chapter 167

　　Ryland’s POV

　　One minute everything was fine, everyone enjoying themselves. Flipping the steaks on the barbeque I was waiting for Evelyn to bring out the tea towel I asked her for. I was about to walk back into the house to check on her, when a shockwave blasted everyone away from the house. None of us saw it coming, none of us expected this to happen. The windows on the house exploded sending shards of glass everywhere.

　　I could hear everyone screaming, smoke and flames everywhere. Sitting up from where I landed next to the shed. I see smoke billowing out of the house. Hear my daughter screaming her lungs out and I look to Orion who had her last time I checked. I spot them near the car. Orion tried to calm her but they seemed okay and intact. Everyone picks themselves up off the ground when I feel Evelyn’s pain smash into me. Orion screams at the same time I jumped to my feet remembering she was still in the house. Thaddeus screams her name as everyone runs toward the house. Thaddeus and I try to get in through the back door. The roof crushed inwards as we tried to push our way in. Her pain gets stronger before she suddenly goes numb and I feel shock wash over her.

　　Thaddeus walks back a few steps and I manage to jump out of the way just as he uses his body to crash straight through the side of the house. Smoke and dust billowing out of the hole he just made. We both force our way through the rubble trying to make our way through to what's left of the kitchen. The fridge blocks the doorway to the laundry and Thaddeus kicks it with so much force the roof caves in on top of us as it hits the laundry wall.

　　“Evelyn?” I sing out into the smoke filled room barely able to see through the wreckage of our home. I hear her make a strangled noise like she is choking when I see her leaning against the bench. Relief hitting me as she stares back before she coughs, blood spewing from her mouth and running down her chin. Only then do I notice what is clutched in her hands. At first I didn’t understand until she screamed. The sound so horridly agonised my stomach drops and Thaddeus growls ripping through the debri trying to get to her as she suddenly slumps forward, her body going limp around the splintered wood that went pierced through her.

　　Thaddues hands frantically tried to do something to help but I could feel even he was unsure on what to do, the splintered wood going straight through her pelvis. I grab her shoulders, holding her upright, realising we have no choice but to pull the wooden table leg from her to release her from where she was pinned. Thaddeus wraps his hands around the wood and rips the splintered wood from her before grabbing her. She slumps forward over his shoulder, blood trailing down his body as I try to clear a big enough path for him to squeeze through and having to hold up a part of the roof for him to squeeze through to the laundry and out the hole in the wall he caused.

　　Thaddeus places her on the ground, both of us completely covered in dust and smoke.My heart skipping a beat as I see Orion pass our daughter off to Imogen who was watching horrified as we try to save our mate and son.