Sour Souls The Morningstar Series Book 6
Sour Souls Chapter 46

"Jace stop! Please!" I begged.

"Don't worry Emi, I'll be gentle for your first time." Jace mumbled against my skin.

It feels like spiders crawling under my skin. Everywhere that he touches me hurts. Where the hell is Luca?

Suddenly we heard a roar. It was so loud that the entire forest quaked under it's power. Jace froze on top of me.

Is that..?

A figure broke through the treeline next to us. Relief flooded me when I took in my mate. I can even smell his smokey scent now.

Ares is here. He made it to me. Just in time too.

"Ares." I breathed out his name.

"How the hell did you get here?" Jace seethed from on top of me.

You can see the anger in Ares eyes. He just caught someone trying to force themselves on his mate. I'm sure that Ares is beyond angry right now. Jace should be scared.

Ares took a step forward. The air around him is thick. Power is rolling off of him in waves.

"Take your fucking hands off of her." Ares seethed.

"No. Emi belongs to us now." Jace stated.

Oh great, Jace has a death wish.

Ares paused in his stalking towards us. He looks more furious than I have ever seen him, and that's saving a lot. The air grew dark all around us. Like the power that was coming off of Ares expanded. Only it's thicker this time, and more malicious. The hairs on the back of my neck, and my arms stood up. Jace's eyes went wide as he stared at Ares in horror. Ares eyes burned a bright fiery orange. Black veins crawled up his face. His fangs protruded. My mate looks like a monster. A sexy monster. Honi chimed in.

Gotta agree.

"She is MINE!" Ares roared.

My mate continued to stalk towards us again. His eyes are glued to Jace. Jace scrambled off of me, and was quick to pull my jeans back up.

I got to my feet, but Ares walked right past me. Jace is still scrambling backwards trying to get away from Ares. My mate doesn't look like he's going to let him go though.

"You Morningstar's are all the same!" Jace seethed. "Help! Darian! Jack! Anna!" He screamed out.

"Your screams will not save you." Ares said, only his voice sounds different.

Almost demented.

It's Rex's voice mixing. Honi told me.

Oh, I didn't know we could do that. I said.

Honi shrugged. I guess if we are mad enough we could mix. She said.

Makes sense.

Ares finished his walk to Jace. Jace is backed into a tree with no where else to go. I'm slightly worried that no one else has came to see the commotion. We weren't that far off. Actually.. Someone should have heard me scream out. They should have heard me tell Jace to stop. I wasn't quiet about it.

I looked at Ares standing above Jace menacingly. He looks like a God. A dark God, but a God. The power rolling off of him is intense. It's so thick I swear you could choke on it.

I looked back at the direction of the house. I can still see the house from here clearly. We only went around back, but.. I don't see anyone else. I don't hear them either. I gave my mate and Jace one last look.

"Ares." I said.

My mate hesitated for a moment before turning his head to look at me.

"He tried to make me chose him over you. He wanted me to be his chosen mate. To turn me into a puppet, and force me to have his kids." I told him.

With every word I can see Ares body shake more and more with his anger.

"Kill him." I stated darkly.

A wide sinister smile crept across my mates face. I've never seen him look so amazing. Ares turned his attention back to Jace. Then I turned around, and ran towards the house.

Ares can handle Jace no problem. Hell, I'm pretty sure that I could have stopped Jace. I was just waiting for Luca. I didn't want to accidently hurt him. That, and I needed to focus on taking the barrier down. I don't think I could have used both powers at once. Thank the Goddess for my mate.

I made it around the front of the house to see something I was not expecting at all. Everyone is here. All of them looked to be standing around at first, but..

Luca is on the ground with a bloody head. Uma has tears streaming down her face as she holds Luca's head in her lap. Anna is pacing in front of them. I can see tears running down her face as well.

Mei is standing next to Jack on the porch steps. Jack is sitting down on the steps with his head in his hands. I can't see his face, but I do see the large bloody rock at his feet.

Darian is standing at Luca's feet. A wide smile across his face. Darian is staring down at Luca with amusement. Which only pisses me off more.

"Well done Jack." Darian said.

"Well done?" Mei asked incredulously. "Well done!" She shouted. "He attacked one of our own! Because of you!"

Darian turned a bored look to her.

"He was a traitor. Luca was working with the Morningstar's." He said.

"How?" Mei asked. "How could he have possibly been doing that? You have us all kept locked away with no way to contact the outside world!" She screamed.

"I don't know how he did it, but he was working with them. He was going to give Emi to them, and let them destroy the rest of us." Darian said to her before turning his attention to the rest. "Don't you see! They are coming for all of us! We must get Emi, and leave now, before it's too late." He said.

"What about Jace?" Anna paused in her pacing to ask. "You seem so concerned with Emi, but what about Jace?" She asked. "He's one of us. Your most trusted. You'll just leave him behind?"

Darian opened his mouth to answer her, but then something else happened. That same power I felt that night those Vampires attacked. We all feel it. The feeling of death. Jace's death.

"You see! They are already here attacking! You feel Jace's death as well!" Darian shouted.

I scoffed gathering the attention of everyone.

"Sounds to me like you expected his death before we all felt it. That's why you didn't include him with me isn't it?" I asked.

Darian clentched his jaw.

"Emi." Anna breathed out in relief.

Anna tried to run to me, but Darian grabbed her arm stopping her.

"Wait, she could be in on this as well." He said.

"There's no way that Emi would hurt any of us." Uma said through her sobs.

"Uma is right. I wouldn't hurt any of you. But Darian is also right. I am in on this." I said.

Anna's eyes went wide. Mei looks indifferent just like always. Jack finally looked up at us. You can see the pain, and the regret plastered on his face. "You brought them here?" Jack asked.

I looked at Uma.

"Is he still alive?" I asked.

Uma nodded. "I think he will be okay, but.. I.. I don't know." She sobbed.

I gave her a nod. I'm sure that they have little medical experience. That's alright though, because I plan to get them all out of here.

"Ares blood will heal him." I said.

Darian scoffed. "Even if your Morningstar mate wanted to help, we would never allow his blood into one of our people's veins." He said disgusted. "Please!" Uma shouted before anyone else could say anything. "Emi please. Help him." She begged.

I gave her another nod.

"Ares will be here any moment. After he takes care of Jace." I told her.

Uma blew out a shaky breath as she looked me over.

"Your mate made it in time." Uma stated.

"Yes he did. Just in time." I said.

"What do you mean just in time?" Mei asked.

I looked up at Darian with hard eyes.

"Your plan failed Darian. Jace did not rape me. You cannot use me. And my mate is going to help save our people." I stated.

All heads snapped to Darian.

"Your plan?" Jack asked him.

"Rape?" Anna asked horrified.

Darian chuckled lowly.

"You really think that they will all leave me? For you, and a Morningstar?" He laughed.

I nodded, and then turned to everyone else.

"Darian has been lying to you all. Uma knows it. Luca knows it. That's why they were helping me. They trusted in me. All Darian wants is to start another war. He doesn't care about any of you!" I told them all. Then my eyes landed on Darian.

"I won't let you hurt the last of our people any more."