Sinful Mates 1-3 novel Chapter 213

　　Thaddeus POV

　　Orion and I used the bond, letting it pull us in her direction but the closer we got to the city, the more nervous I became. Stopping at the end of a residential street, I was a little shocked because most hunters tried to remain away from the public. I knew this man was no longer a hunter being he was now a vampire but he still worked for them and I was finding it unnerving when I realised anything that goes down here can directly affect the public making me wonder if that was his plan. I have tried to remain out of the public eye now but to get them back I was being thrown directly into it. We stop at the intersection. This side of the city was a little run down and mostly consisted of government housing.

　　There were burnt out cars and houses in the street as we warily walked down it. The place looked abandoned, the houses empty and those that remained intact were boarded up with plywood. Not a person in sight as we walked down the centre of the road.

　　“Something doesn’t feel right,” Orion says, stating the obvious.

　　“Why is this street empty?” He asks, looking around at the houses and street that were usually full. This was a bad area so it made it more alarming that people couldn’t be seen anywhere, walking over to the sidewalk. I walked up to a white rundown weatherboard house, its paint was peeling but there was an old car in the driveway indicating someone was home. As I approached though, the stench of death hit me. The curtains were drawn as I approached the doorway and I peered into the window beside the door which looked into a living room. Only then did I see three bodies drained of blood laying on the green carpet. A man and a woman laid on the floor in a decomposing state. Their skin black in parts signally they had been dead for quite awhile. An elderly man sat in the armchair facing the TV also with his throat torn out his vacant faded eyes staring at the wall vacantly as his body slumped to the side.

　　“Check the other houses that aren't boarded up” I tell Orion as I turn back to him. He looks over my shoulder into the house before looking away and darts off. I walk back down the driveway to the road looking around and watching as Orion goes from house to house before coming back to me. One house stood at the end of the cauldersac. Its lawns mowed and the house was definitely the most maintained and was made of brick and also the largest in the street. The rest of the houses however the lawns were waist high, rubbish strewn across the yards and it was eerily silent.

　　Orion stops next to me but I Knew what he was going to say before he said it.

　　“The entire street's occupants are dead, even the children” Orion says, not hiding his dugust. I growl threateningly.

　　“He used the street as his feeding grounds” I tell Orion, my anger bubbling. There is no need to kill people for blood, we had blood banks and those willing to be fed on these days to stop this from happening. I was more shocked my council members hadn’t picked this up, how this has gone unnoticed that an entire street has suddenly gone quiet and no missing persons reports had been filed for these people.

　　My eyes fall back on the house at the end of the street, the pull wanting me to go in its direction. Urging me and telling me that is where my wife and daughter are. Orion growls low when Amara and my fathers suddenly arrive. They pick up the stench instantly and I see one of my fathers also check the house off to the side of me.

　　“Where is mum?” I ask my father, turning away as he tugs his shirt off ready to shift. I hated the sight of the burns I left on his body when I was 16. A constant reminder of how capable I am of hurting the ones I love.

　　“Warning the Council” My father says. Stepping forward I move toward the house when I hear the muffled sound of guns firing. My father makes a strangled oomph sound and I turn to look at him when I am hit in the chest making me stumble back slightly. I pull the dart out and growl my father dropping as the wolfsbane spreads throughout his system.

　　“Get him out of here Theo, this is why we didn't bring Ryland” Orion tells my father. My father nods.

　　“I won't be long” He says, gripping my father's arms who was fighting against him as he drags him away. Orion is suddenly hit and I watch as his eyes scan the house before he points to a green rendered house and I see the curtain move slightly. I feel my magic wrap around my arm forming a red sphere into the palm of my hand before I chuck it at the window of the house Orion pointed to. The window explodes before I hear screams of man and the room catches alight. The man fell out the window as he tried to put out the flames ravaging his body. Gun fire rings loudly from different directions and I am suddenly smashed with bullets. Each one knocked the air out of me.

　　“Get behind me” I tell Orion when Amara rushes forward, her hands going to the ground and I feel the ground start to shake beneath my feet. , the road cracking and splitting open down the centre when I suddenly hear chanting. Amara screams in agony when I see women coming out from between the houses. Their hands glowing as they chanted in unison while Amara screams grew louder while I tried to figure out what was going on when I saw one that looked familiar. She was Agatha's daughter, these women were coven witches.

　　They surrounded us as they kept chanting, using their magic to subdue Amara when she suddenly passed out. It happened so quickly I didn’t have time to react. They all step onto the footpath lining the streets with glowing hands and eyes while they chant in a foreign language before raising their hands. I feel their magic lock onto me, paralysing me. I grit my teeth trying to break out of the spell.

　　“Get out of here” I snapped through gritted teeth at Orion.

　　“Now!” I scream when he stares in shock. I feel for magic, letting the darkness take over, feel it rushing over me and I give into it, letting it take me and I feel my eyes bleed black, feel it running through every vein. I hear a few of the women surrounding me falter. Nervously glancing at each other. Orion darts off to safety knowing I was about to let hellfire erupt. I feel the darkness swelling and bubbling before I feel their magic break its link, unable to hold me and I step over to Amara’s crumpled form. Their chants were getting louder as they fought to subdue me. Reaching down I grab my little sister. Straining against their magic as they kept trying to pulverise me with it. Grabbing her shirt I see my father rush back to the scene out of the corner of my eye and I toss her, flinging her to him and he catches her effortlessly.

　　“Son!” My father says knowing what this means as I tried to hold what little control I had left but this has been going on too long, I have lost too much to this monster. He wants the dark king, I will show him exactly what happens when he pokes the beast and awakes the dark one.

　　“Run!” I tell him and I hear him gasp before he rushes Amara to safety.