Sinful Mates 1-3 novel Chapter 214

　　Laura dragged me through the tunnels, I could barely stand upright and the blood pulsating through her veins was enticing my senses but she was our only way out of here. I kill her. I may not find my way out of this maze of tunnels. But even down in the darkness she managed to find her way all while carrying Mara and holding me upright.

　　“Not much further” She says looking behind us. I didn’t know what was going on above us but the sound was deafening. It sounded like a tornado was right above us wreaking havoc. I knew it was Thaddeus, could feel how strong a hold the darkness had on him. The coldest feeling wrapping around my chest bleeding into me. Yet despite the coldness inside the tunnels got hotter and hotter, so hot you could see heat waves making the air ripple ahead of us.

　　“Why is it so hot in here?” Laura gasps, slowing down. She places me on the ground and I fall heavily. It was like an oven in here. I hold my arms out for Mara as Laura tries catching her breath but even that is becoming increasingly hard for all of us as the temperature rises. Hearing footsteps, my head lazily turns toward the direction we were going. I could hear them getting louder before I felt a tug, a gasp leaving me when I picked up slivers of the bond through my wolfsbane haze. Orion. “Dadda!” Mara exclaims, fisting the air with her hands from my lap. My vision was too blurry to see him until the last second. My eyes going wide when I feel blood spray across my face.

　　“Told you he would make you bleed” Mara says before giggling. The sound of her laughter shocked me but also scared me.

　　“Hey baby, Dadda’s got you” Orion says, taking her from my arms while I hold my breath. Laura’s blood awakening an insatiable hunger in me as my eyes darted to her. The vacant look on her face was like she was shocked at what happened.

　　“Can you stand?” Orion asks me and I shake my head tearing my eyes away from Laura's dead body beside me. Orion stands Mara next to me.

　　“Stay there and don’t move” He tells her before grabbing Laura and bringing her to me. I shake my head. He killed her, she was trying to help us and he killed her.

　　“Evie I haven’t got time for this, we need to get Mara out. And our baby needs blood” Orion says before wiping his fingers across the gaping wound on her neck. He brushes his fingers against my lips when I try to jerk away. An animalistic growl escaping me before I snatch her, sinking my fangs into her dead body and draining what I could from her. I feel fingers touch my hair.

　　“We go now mummy” Mara says.

　　“Now mummy” She says this time louder. Orion rips Laura away from me and I growl at him before he jerks me to my feet only for me to fall down again. I needed blood and lots of it, I had too much in my system for what she was able to provide.

　　“Shit take Mara” He says dropping her on my lap and I hold my breath, her blood calling to me.

　　“Don’t you attack her” He snaps at me before grabbing me, I hold her tight before turning my face into Orion's neck inhaling his scent instead of breathing in hers. When I feel him start running, the motion makes me queasy while Mara giggled in my arms at the speed, hot wind rushing by when the entire ground started shaking. The concrete in the tunnels cracking loudly .

　　“Faster Dadda” Mara squeals but I feel Orion's fear force him faster when I see light breaking into the tunnel at the end.

　　We barely made it out of the tunnels when we were covered in dust then the ground suddenly sank behind us, the tunnel collapsing and a crater forming only a metre from where Orion stops. He lets out a breath before turning around and looking back toward where we came out of. The ground collapsed in on itself, houses being pulled into the landslide. Orion takes a step back before kissing Mara’s head.

　　“That’s my girl” He whispers to her before placing me on my feet. His arm wrapped tightly around my torso holding me against him, he took Mara from me before turning around and I see a park on this side of the street still intact.

　　“The tunnels lead onto the storm water drains, I could feel the pull to you” He explains as I at the heavily graffitied park. Theo comes over to us and I see Tobias sitting on the park bench Imogen fussing over him worriedly. Storm clouds rolled tumultuously across the sky. Lightning hitting the ground in different places, street lights bent from the extreme heat in the air. And the wind, the wind was so strong, it was bending trees around the park, the swing swaying.

　　“Give me Mara” Theo says, taking her from Orion.

　　“Get as far away from here as possible” Orion tells Theo.

　　“I will take her to your house” Theo says when Orion shakes his head.

　　“Get Ryland and get out” Orion tells him and I look up at him fear coursing through me. I knew the darkness had a hold of him but it was only now I realised how much Thaddeus was enjoying it. Theo darts off only stopping when I notice Mara was gone from his arms. Theo looks around panicking.

　　“Mara!” He screams and Orion stops looking around frantically. She misted, Mara misted into thin air and just disappeared. I shriek, panic coursing through me. “Mara baby, it isn’t funny where are you hiding” I scream. Orion raced around frantically looking for her when I heard her angelic voice giggle making my head turn toward the end of the street before seeing her little figure at the cross section. She looks both ways. I stagger toward her, calling out to her when I blink and she is gone. Orion races toward her and he tried to grab when he is suddenly clutching air as she disappears between his hands.

　　“Where is Thaddeus?” I scream over the wind to Imogen.

　　“Two streets over that way” Imogen points down where Mara was last seen. She was looking for him. I stagger and stumble my way after Orion and Mara. Thaddeus was a ticking time bomb and if this was the destruction he has caused two streets away I would hate to see what the street looks like where he is.

　　Thaddeus POV

　　I forgot how great this felt, how powerful I am as I let the darkness take control. The coven witches tried to run when they saw the clouds roll across the sky in a wave. I laugh at the feel of the darkness wrapping around every cell in my body. The cold feeling seeping into my bones, oh how I missed this, their screams were feeding the hunger inside me, I wanted to hear them scream louder, wanted to watch the life drain from their eyes. I stretch my fingers feeling the energy ripple and winding around each one.