Tyson POV
I lost contact with Ace, the mindlink not reaching because of his location, yet I could feel Lucy’s pain, and aguish. Melana couldn’t find the road she was looking for and the sun was just beginning to rise as I reached the hospital. Aamon was unreachable the netire drive but I spotted him smoking out the front of the hospital, his clothes all wrinkled and he looked like shit.
“Any news?” I ask as I park beside where he stood.
“Avery has grown too weak she is unconscious and hasbeen for hours. No matter how much energy I give her, she won’t rouse awake,” He says.
“The baby?”
“Fine,” he says. I felt terrible for him, even moreso with whatI needed to ask him. Aamon looks at me before taking a step back.
“What happened to you?” he asks taking in my sweaty and pale appearance.
“That’s why I am here, Lucy took off last night looking for Jamie, and she is in heat,” I tell him and he instantly tosses his smoke before gripping my arm. I would never get used to t he experience of misting, it was unnatural and felt like I was being sucked through a vacume when we suddenly appeared in Avery’s hospital room. Her skin was deathly pale, almost grey.
“She doesn;t look so good,” I tell him and he nods before digging for through his phone in his bag.
“Shit, I missed your calls, sorry,”
“We need to wake Ryker, I can’t reach Ace and Melana has no idea how to find the road, leading to Jamie’s holiday house, she said no matter how much drives downt hat road she can’t find any others leading off it. She has to keep driving back to get reception to ring and I have a feeling something bad has happened,”
“By the look of you something bad has definitely happened, As for the road, it could be cloaked, mean the only way in would on foot, you have to walk past the barrier, makes sense if Beryl is with him,”
“What can we do, I am way out of my element here?”
“We have no choice but to wait,”
“Wait, my mate is out there dying,” I snap at him.
‘Ace will find her, but until Melana finds the road or Avery wakes up we can;t do shit, but that’s not all, we have no warriors left, incase you havent noticed,” he says, your pack is small, Beryl is strong, she has to be to be able to remain hidden all this time, especially from Avery, no offense but werewolves stand no chance against witches, you have no idea what they are truly capable of,” Aamon explains.
I glance at Avery lying unconscious on the bed.
“I’m not sitting around and waiting for my mate and brother to die,” I tell him walking out. I open up the pack link ordering all men to start scouring everywhere outside of the City. But Aamon was my pack didn’t have the man power and I my mother was hours away still even on foot.
“Tyson!” Aamon calls behind me but I dont stop when he suddenly mists in front of me.
“Wait, ther e may be something we can do,”
“If you say wait I may fucking hit you,”
“No, no, I wasn’t going to suggest that,”
“Then what?”
“I need you to watch my body, I need to travel to the underworld, Asemodeus may be able to wake Avery, or give enough energy to her at least, I am not strong enough to wake her,”
“You want to bring her father here?”
“Yes, but its harder for him, he will have to break down the barrier between this worldand his,”
“How long will that take,”
“I don’t know, but if we can bring him up, even if he can’t wake Avery, he will be able to find Lucy and Ace,” Aamon says and I glance toward the doors.
Lucy POV
I had lost consciousness quickly, the bullet in my shoulder taking the last of my strength and I woke in a delirious state, to Alpha Jamie dragging Ace into a small cell. He was bleeding profusely and unconscious still. I grian trying to move my hands to find I am tied to a chair. It was hot ridiculously hot and I could feel each pump of my heart feel the blood pass thickly through each chamber, hearing a whimper I see Melana’s battered body on the ground, I blink trying to clear my double vision but it doesn’t work. Jamie was talking softly to a woman, who seemed mad about something.
“They got through my wards, I am not ready yet, make sure it doesn’t happen again,” The woman says.
“It won’t have you awoken his wolf yet?”
“No, the boy passed out but he is stringer than he looks, hopefully his sister might entice his beast out of him,” The woman laughs and she turns. I drop my head quickly, pretending to remain unconscious when I i hear a baby cry. My head instantly snaps up and I look around for Ryden, spotting him in a crate crying.
“That thing ever stop whinging,” The woman hisses and I growl at her, the noise leaving me turning her attention to me.
“Well aren’t you a clever little thing, using the mindlink to find your brother, perfect timing really, your brother has been quite a pain in my ass,” She steps aside and I spot Rayan tied to a chair in the center of the room, next to a huge cauldron. Burn ran up his arms and chest, and he had a slash down his face, his pool of his blood sat at his feet, congealed.
Lucille was no longer present, and I struggle feebly against my restraints, but it was no use, I could barely keep my head up let alone do anything. The heat running through me made my blood feel like lava in my veins. The woman walks over to Rayan and slaps his face a few times, trying to rouse him awake.,
“Wakey wakey, you have a visitor,” She says and Rayan stirs drooling blood down his small bare chest.
“Don’t touch him,” I yell but it comes out more of a murmur. The woman laughs.
“Like this?” She asks picking up a hot poker from the cauldron and running it down his chest. Rayan instantly jolts awake and screams. And I try to break my restraints, tears running down my face when she pulls it away from him. Rayan breathe heavily glare up at her before his lips part and his eyes fall on me. I failed him, I failed him terribly.
“Lucy?” He breathes.
“I’m right here,” I gasp.
‘Good thing too, or your brother was taking a dip in the cauldron, so,” The woman says turning toward me with the hot poker. I grit my teeth when she presses the poker against my stomach. Rayan thrashes. I feel my shirt melt against my shirt where she prodded, before the skin breaks and she pierces my skin, the poker plunging into my abdomen, and I choke on my scream and thrash with all my might. Rayan screams for her to stop when the door open. The woman pulls the poker from my stomach and my head rolls to the side to look at the door. Josie walks in and stops in her tracks her eyes go to me and a cruel smile splits onto her face before it falters when her eyes dart to her sister. Her mouth opens and closes. “Melana?” She whispers and rushes to her and drop on her knees beside her.
“What did you do, you bitch,” She sneers at the witch.
‘Your sister was caught driving along the road, so my question is why is she here?” The woman says to her.
“You said she would be left out of it, you promised not to harm her, we had a deal,” Josie snarls at Alpha Jamie. The woman laughs, cackling loudly and holds her tummy. She was grotesque looking thing and Josie stood pointing an accusing finger at her.
“What did you do to her?”
“Nothing, Jamie’s men found her, you twit, she came in like that with these two,” She says pointing to me and Ace. Ryden starts crying again. And the woman becomes mad.
‘Shut up brat, so help me god,”
“We had a deal,” Josie says to Jamie and he sighs and the woman laughs.
‘So naive,”
“What is that supposed to mean,”
“There was no deal sweety, you think a witch can get your mate out of the underworld?” She laughs manically and Alpha Jamie growls at her. Josie looks to Alpha Jamie.
He shrugs, “You asked for the impossible, you didn’t truly think I could bring him back, why would you even want him back after what he did to your friend?’ Jamie asks pointing to me.
‘She spelled him, she sediuced him, its all on her,” The old hag laughs again finding the drama unfolding comical.
“Sit down, shut up or I may kill you sister,”
‘So it was all a lie, you were never going to help,”
“Is she retarded, did she really… Oh my gosh, the stupidity run deep in this one,” The woman laughs turning back to me. Josie lunges at her but with the flick of her wrist Josie is tossed and smashed against the wall. The woman doesn’t even look in her direction instead faces me and I glance aty Josie to see her get to her feet, the woman waves her hand Josie head suddenly bounces off the concrete and knocks her out.
“Now where were, oh yes, awakening ones wolf,” She laughs plunging the poker back through my stomach. Rayan growls and screams for her stop while I fade out again the darkness taking my vision.