Sinful Mates 1-3 novel Chapter 189

　　Thaddeus pov

　　I follow Ryland inside the house. Orion ducks off to grab towels.

　　"Our bathroom or the main?" He asks, looking at me.

　　"Ours" I tell him and I follow him upstairs. Walking past Mara's room I stick my head in the door checking on her. She was sound asleep still all tucked in her bed.Closing the door I see Orion walk up the stairs toward me.

　　"Is she good?" He asks, looking at the door.

　　"Yeah she is asleep"

　　"I need help" I hear Ryland call out from the bedroom. I walk in before following him into the bathroom.

　　"Stand her up" I tell him and he does, holding her against him, her head laying heavily against his chest. Arms floppy by her side.

　　I bend down undoing the button on her jeans before undoing the zip. Her pants sticking to her from all the blood. I pull her legs out before slipping her panties off and standing back up. I unclasp her bra before taking her from Ryland and he pulls her arms out.

　　Orion steps into the room and I feel fog drift over me directed at her so she remains asleep once the water touches her. I nodded to him grateful because I had used enough magic and I could feel it taking a toll on me. Ryland strips his pants off before taking her and I do the same before stepping in and turning the shower before adjusting the temperature. I remove the showerhead and he steps in with her before sitting on the shower floor with her in his lap.

　　Orion grabs the soap and a face washer and kneels next to the shower at the door and starts washing all the blood off while I rinse it down the drain, ridding the bathroom of the smell. My gums tingling with a need to feed.

　　"We need to know what it's in her system, just feed on her Thaddeus she won't care, you already do anyway" Orion says.

　　"Yeah but she is passed out,"

　　"It won't stay in her system long, either you do it or I will. Or wake her" He says.

　　I look down at my mate in his arms, completely comatose. She had been taken advantage of already. I won't be another to do it to her.

　　"They didn't, did they?" Ryland asks, feeling me through the bond. I shake my head, "no she killed them long before they got near her pants, we would have felt it if they did" I tell him and he nods before letting out breath.

　　I decided to wake her. "Let her wake Orion"he nods and I feel the fog lift, and I nudge her along. "Wake love" I tell her and she stirs.

　　Her eyes open before she jumps wide awake looking around. She sees us all staring at her before relaxing against Ryland.

　　"What do you remember?" She seems confused looking back at me before shaking her head.

　　"I need to know what they gave you," I told her.

　　"Who gave me?" She mutters incoherently still drunk on all the blood and whatever was in their systems.

　　"The men we found you with" she shakes her head.

　　"No Laura gave them to me" she mutters trying to go back to sleep. She turns in his arms burying her face in his chest. I look at Orion who seemed confused too. Her friend drugged her, and did that mean Evie took whatever it was willingly?

　　"Evie," I ask, shaking her and she turns her head, facing me before trying to go back to sleep.

　　"Can I feed on you and get in your head?" I ask her and she nods, trying to go back to sleep. Ryland looks at me before propping her up. I tilt her head to the side exposing her neck and her eyes open slightly.

　　"I'm sorry," she mutters.

　　"Why are you sorry?" Orion asks her.

　　"Because I took them, I didn't think they would work" she slurs.

　　"Do you know what it was?" He asks but she was already asleep.

　　I run my tongue over her neck before kissing her jaw. I let my fangs brush her neck and she shivers but doesn't move away or wake. I let her blood flood my mouth tasting it, before spitting it out.

　　The taste was disgusting, all their blood tainting hers and also something else I couldn't identify.

　　"What is it?" Orion asks.

　　I try to rack my brain for where I tasted it before. Orion leans in before running his tongue over bleeding neck and I hear him growl.

　　"Jimson weed and betel nut" he murmurs.

　　I sink my fangs into her again this time she moans softly, her hands feebly clutching Rylands leg as I try to rid it from her system when I get faint traces of something else. I pull back before sealing her wound with my tongue. And washing the blood from her neck. I stand up before reaching down to take her when I realise what the faint taste was.

　　"She has consumed wolfsbane too" I tell them.

　　I step out of the shower and Orion drapes a towel on her. "Wolfsbane?" Ryland asks, hoping out behind me.

　　"I could taste traces of it, she didn't consume it tonight though it was too weak in her system" I tell them and they seem to think.

　　I feel Ryland wrap a towel around waist before tucking the corner in so it stays up. I walk out sitting on the bed with her in my lap.

　　"Did you get it all out of her system?" Orion asks, I shake my head

　　"no whatever she took was highly concentrated, it will probably take a few days"

　　"Keep her home then?" Ryland says and I nod drying her body while Orion dries her hair.

　　"Why would she take jimson weed or betel nut, they are hallucinogenic?" Orion asks, thinking.

　　Ryland walks off grabbing one of our shirts before tugging it over her head and pulling her arms through the holes.

　　I lay her on the bed, before pulling her to me. She places her head on my chest and I run my fingers through her hair before pulling on my magic and entering her mind so I could see her thoughts and the events of the night. Sifting through her head. I watch as Laura and some man pressure her to take the pills even after she refused multiple times.

　　I watched through her eyes, saw what she saw before my blood ran cold. She thought it was us, thought they were us before killing each one. Her comments about the tingles coming back to me. "There’s my tingles," she said. And I realised that was what kept her from going further even in this state, her subconscious could feel something wasn't right so she killed them. But that wasn't all I noticed, it was the voice in her head. A voice telling her what to do, telling her to mark that man, telling her to fuck them.

　　I hear Orion growl jerking me out of her head."someone compelled her" and he was right.

　　"I'm going to kill that bitch" he snaps and I had never seen him so angry before. His entire body was shaking as he stared at our mate.

　　"Calm down, we don't know if Laura had anything to do with it" I tell him and he shakes his head.

　　"No she gave them to her and you saw she wouldn't take the same ones so clearly she knew what they are" Orion answers and I nod my head at his words. I knew something was off about her but mum and Evie trusted her. But Orion was probably right. Deciding to go back in her head, I place my hand back in her head. Mara starts crying and I wait.

　　“I will go make her a bottle” Orion says walking out.

　　"What are you doing now?" Ryland asks.

　　"Finding out how she got the wolfsbane in her system" I feel my eyes roll in the back of my head as I sift through quickly. Images flickering before my eyes. I stop when I see her speaking to Amara who gives her a bag. I listen, anger wrapping around me and I shove myself out having seen enough before placing her head on the pillow and getting out of bed.

　　"Thaddeus what did you see?" Ryland asks. But I don't answer instead walking out and downstairs.

　　Orion comes out of Mara's room with a bottle in his hand. "What's wrong?" He asks. But I don't answer, instead going downstairs and looking for her keys. I found them on top of the microwave.

　　Walking outside, I go to her car unlocking it before opening the glove compartment with the key. I see a paper bag and grab it out before opening it. I find the pills before walking inside.

　　"What is it?"

　　"Find my phone, I need to speak to Amara" I tell him before dropping the bag on the table. Orion looks at it, before opening it and looking at the bottle inside. Rylands looks over his shoulder sniffing the air as Orion opens the bottle.

　　"Isn't water hemlock and wolfsbane what vampires use for birth control?"

　　"No they use it as a morning after pill" Orion answers.

　　"Wait, where did you find this?" Ryland asks, looking toward the stairs.

　　"In her car, Evie took them the other day" I answer.

　　"But why?"

　　"Isn't obvious, to make sure we didn't knock her up the other day" Orion says and I could feel his anger. He wanted more kids, and the fact that she would deliberately destroy a possible pregnancy hurt him, hurt all of us. But mostly I was pissed off at the fact that she hid it from us and was willing to risk becoming infertile even after Amara warned her.

　　"So why do you want to speak to Amara?" I sigh, walking over and grabbing my phone before sitting at the table.

　　"Amara gave it to her"