The Protectors, A. D. Knight [ebook reader .txt] 📗

myself backwards, trying desperately to get away from him.
"I've been waiting a long time for this," he sneered as he undid his pants.
"S-stay away from me," I whispered with very little strength.
"Don't be like that, honey. I'll be gentle," he told me as his pants hit the ground.
I whimpered, not having the strength to fight him as he laid me on the ground. His hands were rough as they tore at my clothes. I weakly tried to pull away. That is when he made the biggest mistake ever. He leaned close to whisper in my ear.
"I bet your a virgin," he whispered right before I sunk my fangs into his neck.
He moaned in pleasure. The reason I don't like to feed on females when I do feed from people, is because in the human's mind it is as good as sex, or so I'm told. I could feel something hard from between his legs press against my legs. I snarled angrily. I could kill him for what he was going to do.
Before I could decide, he thrust a cross into my side. I gasped in pain, jerking away from him. That's when I saw it, the mark of a Priest around his throat. I was too weak to do anything as he dragged me by my hair to the tub. The scent of Holy Water assulted my nose a second before he shoved my head under the tub full of Holy Water.
I opened my mouth to scream, instead my lungs and throat filled with the burning firey liquid. I opened my eyes to see that the Holy Water was slowly turning red with my blood. Pain like I've never felt before attacked me as my vision went spotty. I thrashed at the vise grip that held me under.
Let go of me,

I screamed mentally.
I couldn't hear, but I could tell he was laughing. He repositioned his grip so that one hand held me under and the other began to strip me. He finally let me go when I had no more strength to fight back. I knew I was dead dead. And this time nothing could save me. Everything went black.

Seth

We tracked them down to a huge warehouse. We also quickly found the cell that Mae was kept in with Jaqui, but she wasn't there. Only Jaqui was there. Something didn't smell right as I ripped open the bars to free Jaqui.
"Where is Mae," I asked Jaqui as Angel wrenched the handcuffs off her.
Angel and I were the only two who went in. The others wanted to but we have them hidden for back up in case things go seriously hideously wrong.
"Bathroom. She's been gone too long," Jaqui rasped. "I didn't like the feelings I felt from the gaurd or the look of satisfaction he had when she requested a bathroom. Something happened."
"Do you know where the bathroom is," I asked her.
"No, when I had to use the restroom they brought me a bucket," Jaqui shuddered.
Let go of me,

suddenly rang out in our minds.
"Mae," I gasped as I ran towards where the scream came from.
I ran very quickly and quietly with Angel and Jaqui hot on my tail. I almost ran right passed it. It was a wooden door with the word "Ladies" written on it in pen. I tried the door knob, but it was bolted shut. I could hear fabric tearing on the other side of the door.
Without thinking I rammed the door as hard as I could. The door flew open revealing a half naked unconcsious Mae and a Man without his pants on holding her down. Anger seered through me as I tore him off of her and threw him to Angel. I had no idea if he had raped her or not. My only thoughts were that she was bloody and very still.
I looked at the tub filled with blood mixed with clear liquid and could only guess it was Holy Water. Angel held the man in a head lock, not letting him move an inch. I dropped to my knees by Mae's head and gingerly moved her hair from her face.
"Mae," I whispered in a broken voice. "Please come back."
"She needs to feed," Angel said. "Let her feed on him."
I could only nod numbly as I looked at her unseeing red eyes. They didn't look nearly as pretty since the life seemed to be absent in her. I cut open his wrist and held it to her lips. The blood seemed to trickle uselessly down her face. She couldn't be dead. She just couldn't be. I couldn't lose her, not like this!

Mae

Cold. Like ice. Ice, what a fun word. Lot's of rhyming words. Mice. Lice. Thrice. Wise. Voice. Price. Device. Rice. Twice. Slice, thats an odd word too. I like that word. Sliced. Advice. Accomplice. Nice. Rejoice. Spice. Vice. Dice. Novice. Edice. Solstice. Alice. Malice. Palice. Palace. Sacrifice.
Pain fills my numb head at that word. I know I have three years until my contract is up and the Oracle comes for me. I shudder involuntarily. I look into the darkness. Where am I? I don't remember how I go here or where here is. What happened?
There is a burning white light. It hurts to look at it, but it's so pretty. I wonder where it goes. I try to follow it, but there is something around my waist. I look down to see a gold thread wrapped around my waist.
"You have a choice to make," a disembodied voice tells me.
"A choice," I croak.
"Follow the light or follow the thread," the voice says.
"Where do they lead," I ask.
"That is the right question. Choose," the voice hisses.
A pair of scissors float in the air. I pull them out of the air and look at the thread. I must be on a trip of some. Odd, I've never done Meth or anything like it. The word meth strikes a coard. Meth. Meth. Meth. Meth. Meth. I glare at the ashes on the ground. Ash? I look up to the sky looking for answers. Sky? Sky? I look at the leaves. Someone needs to rake. Rake? Rake?
It hit me like a ton of bricks! Seth! How could I ever forget him? And my cousing Ash, and Jake and Skye? But if I go to the light, they'll be safe from harm because of me. How could I decide ever? I line up the scissors to cut the thread.

Seth

"Seth," Angel said gently.
"What," I snarled still holding Mae.
We'd left the gaurd, drained and dead on the bathroom floor. I'd refused to leave Mae, there was no way in hell she was dead. No way in hell. I cradled her gently as we raced towards the exit.
"I think she's gone," Angel said softly.
"No," I snarled.
We made it out without any problems and the way back to the Manor was a blur. All I cared about was that we got her back and she was not dead. I laid her gently on the couch, kneeling beside her head.
"Seth," Ash said carefully after a while of silence.
I looked up at him and saw that he and Skye and Jake all had tears running down their faces. My numb brain couldn't think of a reason why they were crying. They had no reason to cry, Mae was going to be alright.
"She's gone," Ash whispered.
"No," my voice and heart breaking. "She's breathing."
We all turned and watched the labored shallow breathing that was getting weaker by the minute. We couldn't take her to the hospital, not with what she was. She had a faint vampire heart beat.
That's when we were attacked. The alarm system went off shrilly and soon we were surrounded. We weren't going down without a fight.

Mae

"Seems like you have a choice to make," a familiar voice said.