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 n. 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 ce 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 rming 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


    ck 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 beforeing back to me. One


    house stood at the end of the cauldersac. Itswns mowed and the house was definitely the most


    maintained and was made of brick and also thergest in the street. The rest of the houses however


    thewns 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 upants 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 Rnd” 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 mes 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 womening 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 foreignnguage 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 ck, feel it running


    through every vein. I hear a few of the women surrounding me falter. Nervously ncing 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


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    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.


    Evelyn POV


    Demetri rushed down the stairs after hearing me m into the wall and Laura shrieked in pain as


    she was electrocuted too.


    “What part of watching her didn’t you understand Laura, you don’t go near them just observe”


    Demetri screams at her before pping her across the face. Mara cries at his anger and I try to hush


    her through my cell, trying to draw her attention away.


    “Now” Demtri says, straightening his clothes like he didn’t just strike his girlfriend. Mara quiets


    watching him and Demetri turns his gaze to her in the cage. He kneels down in front of her.


    “Laura get me the wolfsbane” He says as Laura drags herself up from where she fell from the force


    of his hit.


    “You fucking sick bastard she is a child” I snap at him trying to reach through the bars. I look at


    Mara in panic and Demetri smiles back cruelly. Mara squints her eyes at him, her lips pulling back over


    her teeth revealing her pointed fangs, she looked so much like Thaddeus when she does that and I had


    only seen her do it twice, but her eyes burned brightly as she red at him with so much intelligence it


    was startling.


    “You are a bad man” Mara says ring at him. Laura shakes her head.


    “What? no” She stutters, rubbing her face, tears shining in her eyes as she uses her other hand to


    pull herself up against the desk.


    “Get me the wolfsbane” Demetri repeats looking over his shoulder at her.


    “You said you wouldn’t hurt them, Demetri you promised me” Laura says, taking a step back from


    him and shaking her head.


    “Laura?” I look at her shaking my head and she looks conflicted yet also petrified of the man as he


    stood slowly before turning to face her.


    “Now Laura, do as you''re told” Demetri snaps at her, his eyes glistening crimson and threateningly


    at her.


    “No, she is a child, she is not part of this” Laura says her voice trembling as she stared wide-eyed


    in horror at him. He takes a threatening step toward her when I hear gunshots fired outside. Demetri


    looks up at the ceiling. A smile moving across his face.


    “We havepany” He says before walking toward the stairs.


    “Watch them, and don’t get too close” Demetri tells Laura who flinches as he rushes past her and


    towards the stairs. He stops grabbing a pole when I realise it was a dart one. He opens the fridge


    grabbing a vial out quickly and piercing a needle into it drawing out the liquid. He thenes over and


    stabs me with the pole. Wolfsbane seared through me and I dropped as I fought the urge to scream.


    He then refills the needle and attaches it to the end of the pole before shoving it in Laura’s hands.


    “The girl now, I will be back soon for them” He says before rushing up the steps. I scream when I


    see her walking toward Mara’s cage.


    “Laura no please she is just a child” I gasp out clutching onto the cell bars trying to get to my feet.


    Laura looks at me before looking at Mara. She Looks at the pole in her hands.


    “PLease Laura, he will kill her just get my daughter out of here” I beg her. Laura looks to the stairs


    leading to the main floor before she drops the pole. She races to the desk before ripping draws open


    frantically. I watch as she grabs a set of keys out.


    “We need to hurry” She says racing toward me but I couldn’t even stand when I suddenly threw up


    the wolfsbane making my stomach turn violently. The cell door opens and she rushes over to Mara’s


    cage unlocking the door before grabbing her out.


    “I can get you out through the tunnels but we need to hurry” She says, gripping my arm and trying


    to haul me up. I lean heavily on her as she makes her way to the other door I saw in the basement.