Chapter 172
King Sabastian’s POV
Once Alora activated the spell, I stayed in my space with Deimos, watching, hoping I would be able to catch more changes. I wasn’t disappointed, as soon as I decided to stay and wait, things changed. I watched as a red black edged rope like aura spun itself around Alora’s life chin. There was a change to the blackness that blocked me from reaching out to Alora.
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It started to lighten and fade a moment. The more it faded the more I was able to see Alora. I was still unable to find out what her location was, but I was able to see the cell she was in, she had activated Blood Harvest. Only one of seven rings of the spell was visible. I could just barley make out the words she was saying, and felt the anger and fury inside her.
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She was taunting her captures, more specifically she was taunting Sarah. Sarah was on the ground and looked like she was getting a taste of what she doled out to others. The power she was taking from the Warlocks was helping her undo whatever spells they put on her. I stayed and watched, hoping for something to point me in her direction.
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Alora was freeing herself and Sarah ran out the door. Alora had started to stalk her last captor in the building when Sarah ran back in followed by three other women. Then Sarah raised a gun at Alora.
“No!” Deimos and I shouted.
Only Alora couldn’t here me, and I couldn’t prevent what happened next. Alora was shot with that gun; they were more of those darts we found at the gas station. from her abduction. As Alora started to collapse, the darkness filled back in and the last glimpse I saw of Alora was her falling to the ground.
I stood there, looking at the blackness separating me and my daughter, and felt wave after wave of grief assault me. Fear for the well being of my daughter started to well within, along with it the fiery breath of my rage. Those who hurt my daughter were going to be paying a heavy price for her pain.
I now had news I could tell everyone about Alora. I looked down at Deimos, he was sitting on the ground again, looking at the blackness. There was still power surrounding Alora’s life chain. I would take it as a good thing for now, because it meant she was still fighting back.
‘Goddess please watch over Alora and her pups’
Damien’s POV
I looked at the message my father in law had sent me again for the millionth time. “Alora is alive, I can see her life chain again.”
This meant more to me than I could voice, because it meant I wasn’t being delusional for insisting I still felt she was alive. I looked at Alora’s picture on the desk, and felt a tear roll down my cheek, my throat was uncomfortable. I wanted to sob or howl my pain again and again.
I wasn’t getting any work done at the moment, and I hadn’t slept at all since I got that message from my father in law two days ago. So I decided the best thing I can do is go to sleep, we wouldn’t do anyone any good if we didn’t stay in top condition. I wanted to be at peak strength when I tear those who took my mate from me to pieces.
I thought of Alora all over again, it was like a movie was going in my mind. One of every moment I ever had with Alora. At the same time I could feel the visceral pain of being separated from her deep within my soul. I grabbed her pillow, it still smelled like her, and buried my face in it, breathing her scent in as I fell asleep.-
Alora’s POV
I was getting really tired of being drugged, Xena, Selena and I had to struggle to dispel most of the drugs in our system, so we could at least be aware in our space, even if our body was paralyzed. It took us a while before we managed it, about two and a half days.
We were sitting here looking at the orbs that were no longer flickering, but consistently bright. Our pups were safe, knowing that, all I wished for in that moment was to have Damien and Zane in our space with us, watching over our pups.
As if the Moon Goddess heard our hearts desire, I heard his voice coming from behind me. “Alora?” His voice was full of desperate hope, and pain.
Suddenly I could feel him, feel the grief and pain that filled him, he was hurting so much. Immediately I started to sob, I turned around and there he was. He looked haggard, and it was paintu! to see. This is what my mate was going through sense Sarah took me from him.
Sarah you bitch! I will make you pay ter.fold for this. I snarled internally. I got up an ran to Damien, jumping into his aims and wrapping myself around him. I buried my face in his neck and held on tight.
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Seconds was all it took before he had his arms around me, crushing me to him. “Alora.” He cried out my name. “Starlight.” I felt his body tremble.
Zane’s voice was a guttural. “Xena, Selena!” He then ran over to them. Xena and Selena were both still chained to the ground.
He ran around Xena, and Selena. Xena was up and both had tears flowing out of there eyes. “Zane.” They cried out together.
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He sat down between them, He licked and nuzzled Xena, then he would lick and do the same to Selena. Damien carried me over to them and sat down, refusing to
let go.
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I lifted my head up and looked into his swollen wet eyes. “Mate.” He said in a croak. He tried to say something else, but he couldn’t seem to speak.
I kissed him, and I flooded him with my love. It actually became a mental and emotional torture for mates to be apart longer then a week or two. Damien kissed me back, and I could feel my love helping him, soothing his pain, healing parts of him that felt like they were open and bleeding.
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When I pulled back from the kiss he was finally able to let me loose enough to sit up in his lap. I took advantage of my position to start playing with his hair. “We’re all right my love, for now.” I said in a soft voice.
Zane was growling, I turned my head to look at what he was doing. He was biting down on the chain that was holding Xena to the ground. Zane’s jaws and teeth,
like most Werewolves, were strong enough to chew through metal. It wasn’t great on the gums, but handy none the less.
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I didn’t think it would work because of the magic, until Zane’s red under coat started to glow under his black fur. It made him look like a creature made from lava. A powerful heat came off of Zane, he snarled as he bit harder through the chain, shaking his head a bit.
The chain broke with a loud crunch and a squealing metal sound. The chain, and the collar attached to it, disintegrated into a cloud of smoke and floating black bits,
they rose into the air and disappeared. I gasped, and felt joy run through me at that broken chain.
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Zane turned around and did Selena’s chains next, it only took him a few moments before she was free. I turned around in Damien’s lap so that I was sitting in it. with my back against his chest. The now freed Xena and Selena came over to us, they sat on either side and leaned into Damien, Zane sat down in front of me and
laid his head in my lap.
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The touch of our mate in both his forms was healing us, the orbs that represented our pups floating in front of us looking healthy. Even though I knew this couldn’t last forever, I put that thought to the back of my head. I just wanted to live in this moment for now.
“Tell me everything that’s happened.” Damien demanded. “Don’t sugar coat anything in an attempt to make me feel better, please tell me everything you can.”
I let out a heavy sigh, then I began to tell him everything that I could. He managed to stay calm while I was telling him the story. Zane did growl here and there, but Xena laid her head on his, and Selena and I had hands in his fur.
“You still don’t know where you are?” Damien asked me.
“No, and I haven’t been able to pick up a scent that could point you to where I am.” I told him. “I think we’ll be able to feel and talk to each other again.”
Damien kissed my mark, causing a shiver to run through me. “Good, I was going insane not being able to really feel you, I was only able to feel enough to know you were alive.” He said in a hoarse voice. Zane whimpered.
Xena licked Zane, Selena moved her hands in his fur and rubbed her head against Damien’s shoulder. “I swear to you Starlight, we’ll find you.” He said.
“I know mate…when we get back home, I want to do nothing more than lock myself away with you.” I told him,
“I have no objection to that.” He said softly, placing another kiss on my mark.
We were able to stay like that for a little while, but eventually sounds on his side meant Damien and Zane had to leave. The sound made my stomach drop, because I knew it meant he would have to go. I didn’t want him to go, but he couldn’t stay.
His arms tightened around me, “I don’t want to go.” Was his hoarsely whispered words.
I felt tears on my neck, they were his, the ones on my face were all mine. Zane and Xena whimpered, and Selena pressed closer, tears on her face. “But you have to.” Was my reply, my words not rising above a whisper either.
“We can feel and mind link each other again, but I’m so greedy.” Damien said.
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1 let out a small sob. “I love you Damien.” I told him, letting him hear and feel the truth of my words.
“I love you my Starlight.” He said.
Then he and Zane faded from our space, leaving just us behind. Selena and I clutched each other and Xena laid in out laps, and we cried. The longing for our mate was like a vice around our hearts. Crushing and so painful.
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Sarah, I’ll pay you back for our pain, and I will pay it forward a thousand fold.
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