Chapter 94

Chapter 94
Lucy POV


Outside was utter chaos. What I wasn’t expecting to find was my mother fighting Jamie. She was injured, but it didn’t stop her fighting. I looked around, horrified at the carnage, looking for my brothers, when I noticed Ace grab a little girl I assumed had to be Jamie’s daughter. She was screaming and thrashing in his arms when my mother called out to me.

“They went into the forest!” she screamed at me as she punched Jamie in the chest, her hand piercing through him. The noise was sickening, but I turned, sniffing the air as the wind picked up. Rayan’s scent was weak but noticeable.

I darted off into the trees when I was suddenly thrown forward by a blast behind me. A shriek left me, and pain rippled through me from the bond. I knew Tyson was hurt but still alive. Shaking myself off, I noticed the trees around me broken and flat against the ground like something had just bowled them over when I heard faint voices.

I moved quickly, chasing after Melana and Josie, wanting to get my brothers to safety. Although I had no idea where I would be safe with everything going on; it was madness, and if it weren’t for my heightened vision, I wouldn’t have been able to see in the darkness. The lightning was crazy, and the winds only got stronger as I pushed forward against them, trying to navigate my way through what was left of the forest. Twigs and branches were snapping off trees and whipping my arms and face as I tried to listen over the howling wind. I felt like I was running on a treadmill, barely making any distance with the winds swirling around me and pushing me in the direction I had come from, when I hit a small clearing and saw Melana with her arms outstretched. Rayan was at her feet when my eyes darted to Josie, who was holding Ryden.

Rayan was screaming at her to give Ryden to him as he got to his feet. My hair whipped around my face as I made my way over to them, Josie’s eyes instantly seeking me out, and she snarled, baring her canines at me.

“Please, Josie, just give me the baby,” Melana begged her sister, and I growled, baring my fangs at her wondering what was going on.

“They will kill me,” Josie said, and Melana took a step toward her, but Josie pulled Ryden closer, her hand on the back of his neck. He was screaming, the wind carrying his voice away.

“Please, Josie, just give me my brother?” I asked, holding my hands out for my brother.

“You took my mate,” Josie sneered at me.

“She never took him, Josie. He is sick. Why can’t you see that?” Melana tried to reason with her, and she looked down at Ryden in her hands, wrapped in his filthy blanket. She shook her head.

“This is the only way. I give him back, and they will kill me,” Josie said.

“No, you can go. Just give me my brother, and you can go, Josie. We won’t chase after you,” I told her, my eyes on my brother in her hands. Melana nodded to her holding her hands and stepping closer, but she took a step back again before turning her glare on me.

“This is your fault, all of it. You just had to report him to Avery. You took him from me. Now I will take from you,” she screamed, and I saw her hand twitch a second before I lunged at her. Ryden went flying from her hands. His squeal pierced my ears and heart as I tackled her, and we hit the ground.

Josie punched me in the head, and Rayan screamed, making me look over at him to see Melana catch Ryden. Just as Josie grabbed my throat, she climbed on top of me, her claws sinking into my throat as she strangled me.

“We were in love! You took him from me! You took my mate,” she screamed and gritted her teeth, and panic kicked in when I suddenly couldn’t breathe. I clutched at her hands, and she screamed when I felt her wrists breaking but didn’t let go. She headbutted me, and I saw black for a second before grabbing her hands, trying to loosen her grip when she suddenly went rigid; her grip loosened on my throat, and a look of shock crossed her features. Josie looked down at her chest. Her hands let my throat go, and I coughed and looked up to see Melana standing behind her, tears rolling down her cheeks. Josie looked up at her sister.

“I won’t let you hurt anyone else,” Melana choked out before closing her eyes, and I heard a sickening tearing noise before my legs got coated in a substance I knew instantly was blood. Josie’s lips parted before she fell to her side. I stared up at Melana, holding Josie’s heart in her hands before she collapsed to her knees beside her sister. I scrambled backward, looking at Josie while Melana sobbed over her sister’s body, pulling her little sister into her lap and cradling her head while stroking her face.

Tears sprang into my eyes at what she had done. Josie was my friend once, and it was clear how much doing that broke Melana. Looking around, my eyes fell on Rayan, who was staring blankly at Melana, Ryden clutched in his arms, and a sob broke past my lips as I got to my feet, rushing toward him.

“Rayan!” I cried out, dropping beside him and looking down at Ryden in his arms. He was eating his own hand, sucking happily and unharmed, when I heard someone call my name over the wind.

“Lucy, Rayan!” I heard someone scream, and my head snapped up in the direction of the voice to see my mother burst through the trees.

“Mom?” Rayan called, turning his head to look behind him.

“Mom!” he screamed, getting to his feet, and she started running toward him. I got to my feet, running after him, when my mother opened her arms, and we both crashed against her. Her arms enveloped us both, and she kissed both our faces. I pulled back, relieved to see she was okay, only to notice it wasn’t my mother but her wolf Amanda. I wanted to take a step back from her when her hand reached out, cupping my face gently.

“That’s my girl,” she whispered, brushing my cheek gently before ripping me toward her and hugging me. I hugged her back, and tears slipped down my cheeks. She looked down when Ryden squirmed, crushed between our bodies.

“Hey, precious boy. Come to Momma,” she purred at him, taking him from Rayan when the sky lit up and streaked loudly with lightning and thunder.

“We need to get out of here!” my mother called over the wind that picked up rapidly.

“Melana, we need to go!” I screamed out to her, and my mother growled viciously and tried to pass me Ryden, but I stopped her with a hand on her chest.

“I never would have found them if it wasn’t for her,” I told her.

“She just killed her sister to save Ryden and Lucy, mom. She saved me, too,” Rayan told her, and Amanda looked at us before looking down at Ryden. She nodded before her eyes darted to Melana. Melana got to her feet, wiping her eyes but remained where she was, waiting to see what my mother would do.

“Come on, we need to leave,” my mother told her when the ground suddenly started shaking violently like an earthquake.