Sinful Mates Chapter 163: One hundred and sixty-three

***Thaddeus POV***

Amara was the one who first alerted us, we were on our way back and had just stepped onto the busy main street when my phone started ringing making us stop. She uttered one word, like she had seen it seconds before she rang, seconds before agony tore through me.

“I’m on my way” the phone going dead just as I was brought to my knees, along with Orion who was still walking collapsed violently in a heap. My veins felt like they were on fire, as I felt Ryland’s pain through the bond. Taking my breath away as I clutched at my shoulder. Acid moving through my veins, engulfing everything in flames. Evelyn’s fear hitting us, pure panic kicking in and I could feel that she was running. Feel her getting weaker as she too felt Ryland’s pain along with her own. Orion screaming on the ground trying to put out the invisible flames that were consuming him while I tried to breathe through it unsuccessfully. People staring wondering why two people were suddenly on the ground writhing in pain, yet I didn’t care, all I cared about was getting to them.

When suddenly it stopped, stopped just as quick as it started. Orion’s screams died out and I rolled onto my hands and knees panting, anger coursing through me as I stood up. People in the main street backing up, the ground rumbling violently beneath my hands, the road cracking along with the building around me as I feel the darkness trying to take over, but I needed a clear mind, needed to find them as I focus on them, focus on my mates. Orion stands sweat coating his body and drenching his shirt, something I never seen on him as he struggled to find his legs. My phone shattered on the ground into pieces from where it fell from my hand. Moving, I make my way to Orion grabbing his arm and hauling him to his feet as his legs kept giving way from under him.

“We need to move, come on” I gasp out trying to catch my breath. Frightened onlookers scattering as we staggered down the street cars stopping as we dart across the road and into their path.

“What did they use” Orion coughs out still trying to catch his breath.

“I have no idea, but whatever it is, it would be ten times worse for Ryland”

“Evelyn?” He asks his voice shaking with fear.

“The link severed” I tell him, knowing they both must be unconscious. We start running, forcing o0urselves to move, heading home. Praying we make it in time, get to them in time. When we hit the concealed driveway, I get a burst of energy as the house comes into view. My mother and Father I could hear inside the front door thrown open while Amara comes running from the trees beside the house.

“They aren’t here, I didn’t get here in time” Amara says fear on her face, as her eyes frantically scan our surroundings.

‘What did you see?” I ask, gripping her arms and shaking her before forcing her to look at me.

“I saw Ryland fall, I knew something happened but then I lost it, I couldn’t hold it like they went unconscious” She says shaking her head, I could tell she had been using her magic, her aura was weak. Weak like she had been overexerting herself, trying to see what happened.

“Head to Leven, they have to be at the facilities there” I tell them.

“Your fathers are going to check the military facility on the way” My mother says as I see them come out of the house, my father trying to pick up any scents, but the place was clean. No scents at all not even human scents like they masked themselves in some way.

We race to the compound on the outskirts of Leven minutes feeling like hours as we race to get to them in time, running past the sign bordering the town when I feel her wake. Feel Evie’s consciousness start to wake but it doesn’t last long. By the time we got to the gated compound, I feel the bond break, feel her dying breath and I snap, a scream leaving my lips as I feel my soul shatter into a million pieces, the part of it that is her dying with her. The ground moving in a wave as I approach the fence, feel the volts of electricity rippling in the wire as I tear it apart with my hands, the barbed wire sticking to and catching on my clothes as I tear a hole through it, storm clouds brewing violently as lightening sets the trees on fire.

She was dead, they killed her. Raising my hands, I feel the darkness ebbing and flowing throughout my body, sickly sweet and sadistic. My eyes bleeding black, and I feel the darkness consume me as I march towards the brick building on the hill. I hear horns blaring when I am tackled to the ground. Amara smacking me in the dead centre of the chest, knocking me backwards.

“Get off me” I scream as I feel her trying to absorb my magic, trying to take it from me but they must pay. They must die for what they did.

“You will bring the entire building down on them, think Thaddeus” Amara shrieks.

“I doesn’t matter she is dead, she is fucking dead” I scream at her, electrocuting her. She growls as she is thrown off before Orion grabs my arms, flinging him off, the ground cracking in my anger.

“Your daughter is alive, you do this, you will kill her” Amara screams making me halt.

“You don’t know that” I tell her, my mother grabbing my arm just as gun fire rings out, we all duck for cover before feel fire burn in my veins igniting every cell in my body as it leaves my fingertips, lighting the surrounding buildings on fire, people running and screaming, and my fury takes over.

“I do I can feel her, she is not dead, and neither is Evelyn, you have been feeding her blood. They want you to walk in there. They would be expecting this” Amara screams trying to stop me as she blast me with what little energy she has left, pinning me on the ground while chaos breaks loose, they knew we were here and were now getting ready as we fought with each other wasting time.

“They are in there; you do this you kill us all” My mother says. I could hear trucks leaving the facility making me look up, armed vehicles leaving in succession barrelling through the fences toward us. I watch my mother dig her hands into the ground, feel her energy leaking out of her as the ground moves.

“You need to get me in there” I tell Amara.

“I can’t we could end up anywhere, I don’t know what inside looks like, I can’t just mist us in without seeing inside”

The sound of metal on metal making me look toward the four armoured trucks as roots shoot from the ground, crushing the vehicles and bend them like paper origami. The entire place looking like a war zone as my mother uses her magic wielding it like a weapon. Orion moving quickly killing anyone he comes across and those being thrown from the vehicles while I was still stuck to the ground, held by the snares of Amara’s magic.

“Let me up” She shakes her head.

“I don’t want to hurt you, but you give me no choice” I tell her before letting hell fire loose, the ground turning black as charcoal as it consumes everything in its path, a line heading straight for the facility that has my mates held hostage. Her magic wavering as she tries to hold it. Tries to stop me, but she is no match for me, her magic comes from life, needs energy to empower it, to strengthen it. Mine is dark, mine comes death, like a muscle it flexes, I am nor living or dead, Amara is life and even she knows her power has its limits, mine doesn’t need anything to draw off, whereas hers does. She gives a piece of her life essence to use hers, whereas mine takes from anything surrounding it strengthening me, while hers weakens her.

“Thaddeus your killing her” My mother screams.

“Tell her to let it go”

“Amara please” My mother begs sweat coating her face as she buries her hands further into the earth. Amara’s magic dims, breaking under the pressure the entire ground turning black and burning. Everyone screaming as the flames lick at them while I get to my feet. Mother trying to stop the flames creating a barrier forcing my darkness around us, protecting them from burning along with the earth on which they stand.

“Get me in that building now” I tell my sister.

“We could end up anywhere Thaddeus”

“I don’t care, just get me in there”

“It’s a trap Thaddeus” Orion says coming to my side, drenched in the blood of hunters, their fallen bodies laying on the grass and road everywhere, the smell of burning flesh and metal heavy in the air as I look around, the entire place had gone silent except for the sound of the roller shudders closing on the entire building, blocking the entries and windows, the siren cuts off and I knew they were right, they wanted me to come in to get them.

“You’re right” I tell them. Looking around the entire place was a trap, and my mates and daughter were the bait. Orion lets out a breath looking around for another point of entry.

“And that’s why your not going in there” I tell him, he looks back at me just as I snap his neck, his body falling limp against me as I catch him. Sinking my teeth into his neck and draining his blood. I will not risk him, there was already enough on the line.