Series: The Un Series by Izzy Sweet
Total pages in book: 109
Estimated words: 109192 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 546(@200wpm)___ 437(@250wpm)___ 364(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 109192 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 546(@200wpm)___ 437(@250wpm)___ 364(@300wpm)
“Shit,” I say. “We overran the clock.”
Asher winces. “Chloe’s pissed.”
“How do you know?”
He points to his chest. “You’ll feel it, too, when you become one.”
My heart sinks to the floor suddenly and all the blood in my stomach sours.
There’s a terror… A deep-seated terror that overwhelms my entire being for the briefest of moments.
Completely consuming me before exploding into a fiery blast of anger.
Anger that I’ve been so fucking stupid.
If I had paid any attention to my own soul bond, I would have realized sooner that my soulmarked is currently panicked and scared out of her mind.
Looking at Asher, I shout, “We need to go now! Something is wrong with Alena!”
Fuck the sun.
Grabbing my arm, Asher ushers me toward the parking lot in search of a car to steal.
SEVEN
ALENA
Continuing to ignore my pounding fists, Caden carries me through the house. No matter how hard I punch him or jab him with my knees, he won’t drop me.
Ambrose follows beside us, holding his arms out. “Give her to me. You’re scaring our little sister.”
Caden flashes his fangs at him. “No.”
Ambrose snarls back. “I’ll make her feel better.”
Caden laughs at him. “In what universe? Have you had a look in the mirror lately?”
Ambrose tilts his head to the side in confusion, causing his snow-white hair to fall to one side like a long, silky curtain. “Why? Is there something on my face?”
Caden smirks. “Yes, there’s definitely something on your face. You should go have a look.”
Frowning, Ambrose disappears in a blur.
Caden shakes his head and continues on.
Becoming mindless with my terror, I pull Caden’s shirt up and try biting him. My teeth gnawing at the cold, hard flesh of his back.
At this Caden finally pauses, but only long enough to say, “You should stop before you hurt yourself.”
“No!” I scream at him. “Let me go! I’m not going with you!”
When he starts walking again, I stretch my legs all the way out and try to aim my feet for his balls.
I kick so hard my shin connects with his thigh.
“Dammit,” he growls and pauses again. “I can’t fucking walk like this. She’s going to hurt herself.”
Punching and kicking him feels like beating on a statue made of stone, but I feel no pain.
Only terror.
“Hand her to me,” Matthias says.
Caden seems to hesitate, his arms tightening protectively around me.
Until I take another swinging kick at his balls.
“Fuck!” Caden snaps. “Fine, you take her.”
He flips me over his shoulder like I weigh nothing and holds me out, away from him.
Even like this, dangling in the air and held only by his hands like a… baby, no matter how hard I thrash and try to free myself, I can’t escape.
I’m no match for his strength or incredible speed.
But it doesn’t stop me from trying.
Matthias reaches for me, his hands grabbing me by the armpits.
But before he can take control of my body, the world blurs and whips around me like I’m suddenly whisked away by a hurricane.
“What the fuck do you think you’re doing to my mate?!” Raphael roars, nearly blasting out my eardrums.
My hair settles in front of my face, and I have to reach up and brush it out of my eyes before I can see if it’s really him now holding me.
Peering up, I see Raphael’s face above me, contorted with murderous fury.
Surprisingly, this time around the rage flickering in his eyes, causing them to shift between red and black, doesn’t phase me in the least.
Nor does all the blood covering his face.
There’s blood splattered across his forehead and covering his entire chin. He looks like he tried and failed to drink from a bloody fountain.
“We’re trying to get her to safety!” Caden growls back and clenches his fists.
Raphael cradles me in his arms and pulls me into his chest. Holding me like one holds a small child. “You’re terrifying her. I should rip your spine out through your ass!”
“Oh yeah?” Caden smirks angrily and starts cracking his knuckles. “Why don’t you come over here and give it a try?”
Raphael’s lips peel away from his fangs and he takes a step forward, as if he means to do just that, even with me in his arms.
“What the fuck is going on now?” Raphael’s sire says with exasperation as he suddenly appears in the space between the two angry vampires.
“Caden is terrifying my stars,” Raphael answers, his voice guttural and bordering on demonic.
I blink up at Raphael in confusion. His stars? Isn’t that what he was calling me earlier? Before he discovered I’m tainted?
What does he mean by calling me that now? I thought he hated me…
“I was only trying to take care of her,” Caden growls back. “Something you should have been here doing. Instead, you decided to run off like a fucking crazed animal!”
Asher opens his mouth to speak, but Caden isn’t done yet.