chapter 146 Forty-Four


    Thaddeus POV


    I fucked up; I knew I fucked up. I let my walls down. I fell asleep, as soon as I opened my eyes, I


    knew they would find me. I shouldn’t have gone home, shouldn’t have closed my eyes for those few


    seconds which turned into hours. I could feel them getting nearer. Looking at the clock, I see that it is


    10 AM. I had to get moving, they wouldn’t be far out. My mates would convince me toe back, and I


    couldn’t risk her safety. She was safest away from me.


    My life has been hell without them. I hadn’t slept in month, and sitting down and resting was the


    mistake I made. Should have kept moving, stayed awake, then they wouldn’t have found me. Chucking


    my clothes on, I head for the door. I knew I didn’t have long before they got here. Time slipped away


    from me and I wasn’t even sure how long I slept but I could feel how close they were.


    Moving quickly, I started running. No direction in particr just away from them catching up. I


    could feel Orion getting closer, feel his emotion creeping into me. Flooding me forcing me to stop. I


    usually blocked them out. I couldn’t handle their suffering. I knew it was hell for them as much as it was


    for me, but this was the right choice. Or so I thought when I felt her, felt them suffering along with me.


    First it was unease creeping in from her. What was she doing that was making her unsure? Then it


    was fear, then pounding pain ripping through my skull forcing me to clutch my head. Something was


    wrong, something had happened. Then suddenly I couldn’t feel her at all, she was gone. Looking


    around I had no idea where I was, stopping at a sign I read, I was in a town called Forse. Shit, I was 6


    hours away from my parent’s house. 6 hours away from her and that meant Rnd and Orion were just


    as far. Turning on my heel, I took off heading back the way I came my surrounding blurring into a sea of


    colour I was moving that fast. My heart pounding and dread consumed me. Why couldn’t I feel her?


    Was she unconscious? Rnd and Orion would have left her in safe hands I know them, they love her


    just as much as I do. So why was she hurt? Why wasn’t she safe?


    Running, I dug my phone out slowing slightly as I rang my mother.


    “Hello?” Her excited voice came through to me.


    “Ma where is Evelyn? Put her on.”


    “I can’t here you, are you running?” she asks. I slowing to a stop so she can hear. I could


    Rnd and Orion moving away, heading toward her. They must know where she is.


    “Ma put Evelyn on the phone,” I tell her.


    “Evelyn, she went into the city to meet Lana,” my mother says. My blood running cold.


    “By herself?”


    “Yes, Rnd said it was okay” I hang up. Dialling Evelyn’s number.


    “Hi, you’ve reached Evelyn Leave your number and I will get back to you” Her voicemail. Either it


    was off, or she had no reception. Running, I could feel myself catching up to Rnd, feel the pull of the


    mate bond pulling me towards his direction.


    That’s when I felt her wake, her panic coursing through me. My wrists hurting. I could feel


    everything she felt. My mate was in trouble, she was hurt. Finally catching up to Rnd at Leven when


    Belongs to (N)?vel/Drama.Org.


    I see him in wolf form before he drops and so do I when pain starts radiating throughout my left foot.


    My foot throbbing and Rnd groans the pain forcing him to shift back.


    Grabbing him, I m him into the ground anger taking over me. “Where is she?”


    “She went to the park to visit Lana, go Thaddeus find her” he says before screaming in agony. I


    could feel her pain but pushed it aside, her mind was consumed in pain. Letting him go I start running.


    Just hang on Evelyn I am not far now.


    Evelyn’s POV


    Watching horrified as she walked towards me with the blow torch. I felt bile rise in my throat,


    nausea swirling within me at what she was about to do. She had lost the plot.


    “Look your foot is bleeding. How about I cauterize it for you?” she mocks before holding the blue


    me to my broken foot. I scream. At first it felt cold but then It like was melting my skin off. I thrash


    trying to get her to stop as she starts with my toes. My screams falling on deaf ears as she ignored me.


    I had never felt pain like it, not even catching fire hurt this badly. This was torture in every sense of the


    word. My skin literally melting under the intense heat.


    She stops, checking out her handy work. I could smell my burning flesh. It filled the room. The


    stench was horrendous. She then stands up before walking upstairs, relief flooding me that she was


    leaving. I was drenched in blood and sweat, drenched in my own tears.


    “NO, NO, NO,” I scream when I hear the door open and realise she ising back. She walks


    down the stairs, a cruel smile on her face. She was carrying a knife.


    “Burns are terrible, aren’t they? So painful,” she tells me. “I was nning on burning you to death,


    but I can’t handle the smell. It is atrocious,“ she says before grabbing a medical mask from her pocket


    and putting it on. She then ties her hair up getting it off her face before picking up the knife.


    “She runs the back of the de across my shoulder to the middle of my throat, pushing the point in


    slightly.


    “You are a pretty little thing. Let’s change that shall we?“ she says her words muffled by the mask.


    She turns the de before running it down my chest. I scream as it slices through my chest and across


    my breasts. She starts yanking on my shirt, tearing it away, jerking me forward the zip ties cutting into


    my wrist painfully when I felt one snap from the pressure of my wrist being on a weird angle from her


    tugging. She rips my shirt down the middle, the knife cutting into my skin as she continues yanking on


    me trying to remove my bra while holding it. This woman is sick, she is going to mutte me.


    Once my bra was undone, she grabs the knife and just as she goes to slice my breast. I grab the


    de. I could feel it slicing through my palm and fingers, she seemed shocked before yanking the knife


    away before walking over and grabbing another zip tie. I frantically start yanking on my other wrist


    trying to free it when shees back grabbing my hand and prying it away trying to restrain it. I can’t


    let her do that, so I use the only thing I have, my head. I headbutt her and she stumbles back. Gold


    flecks dancing before my vision from the impact of our heads colliding. Pain shooting through my skull


    and she gets up. She screams and I can see her eyebrow is bleeding, blood running down the side of


    her face before it twists in anger and she screams tackling me and I couldn’t do anything as the chair


    fell backwards, my head smacking the concrete with a loud crack making me see ck for a few


    seconds. The air being knocked from my lungs as shees down on top of me.


    I didn’t even register the first few blows as she rained down punches on my face, I had lost feeling


    for a few seconds and I feared that I was going to die, I was pretty certain any more knocks to the


    head, I was going to be out. When suddenly I heard a loud noise upstairs, she stops looking at the roof.


    And I scream, hoping she can hear me. Lana must be home.


    April instantly mps her hand down on my mouth. I bite her hand letting out a scream when she


    jerks her hand away before she punches me in the mouth, my lips swelling, and I could taste my own


    blood. I watch her raise her fist again, when suddenly she was gone. Just vanished before I hear a loud


    crash and her body bounces of the wall beforending next to me unconscious on the floor when


    suddenly I see him. His fangs protruding and never in my life have I been so thankful to see someone.


    Orioning into my line of vision. When suddenly I hear another crash so violent, I thought the roof


    was about to cave in.


    “Down here,” Orion yells out to them and I hear fast moving footsteps before hearing a terrifying


    growl. Orion picks me up in the chair, cing it upright before snapping the cable ties. Looking over his


    shoulder, I see Thaddeus a murderous look on his face, his eyes trained on the unconscious April on


    the floor.


    “You’re okay now, we got you,” Orion says grabbing my face making me look at him. Everything


    was bing fuzzy around the edges. My vision bing tunnelled. Everything hurt yet all I could


    focus on was, that he they were here.


    Orion bites into his wrist, and I don’t even think about it just wrap my lips around his bite mark


    knowing his blood would offer relief, stop the pain. I could feel his hand rubbing the back of my head.


    “Get her out of here,” Thaddeus yells at him as he stalks toward April. Orion grabs me, lifting me


    and I could feel my body healing, the pain slowing as I wrap my legs around his waist and Orion heads


    for the stairs. I see Thaddeus grab April before tossing her in the chair, having to catch it to steady it


    from the force he used. He was going to kill her and even after what she did, I didn’t want her to die, did


    she deserve death probably but that wasn’t for me to decide. She was still my mother for a year, still


    Lana’s mother.


    “Please don’t kill her,” I whisper, and Orion stops pulling back and staring at me as if I had lost my


    mind. Thaddeus head whipping in my direction a look of anger on his face directed at me.


    “Get her out of here Orion. I will deal with her and Rndter,” he growls, and I see April stir


    before suddenly I feel a rush of air and smell fresh air. Opening my eyes, I see we are outside.