All Chapters of Soulless Seas: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

Carter POV.It takes everything in me to not touch her, to hold her to me again. But I know she will kill me. She looks defeated, sad even.“Go to her, you moron,” Lykos mumbles in my head with a whimper as he looks at her as she looks out at sea. She turns her head and raises an eyebrow at me. She is beautiful, even if she is deadly.“Well, you called me here, so talk.” She says, but her tone is not the usual snappy, bitchy tone. She is upset. I slowly move closer to her. I sit a few feet away from her as she chuckles at me.“You scared little pup.” She smiles at me and I gulp. Even in her human form, I know she can rip me apart and not feel a damn thing.“No,” I lied, and she laughs as she wraps the towel around her as she crosses her legs and looks at me with a smile on her face.“You are a terrible liar. I would be surprised if you weren’t scared. Mate or not.” She speaks softly at me.“Sorry, I am till trying to get my head around a lot.” I say with a chuckle and she shakes her h

Asteria POV.I wake up with a groan as my eyes adjust to my surroundings and I am in a hut. I move my arms and look down to see shackles around my wrists. I move to sit up and look around.The walls are made with logs, there are woven tapestries hanging in places and a fire crackles in the hearth. I look down and see I am wearing a long shirt and I’m on a bed. The door to the room opens and I hiss at whoever it is that has entered the hut.I don’t take my eyes from the person as snarl and move my arms to break the restraints. They groan under the force when the man tilts his head to the side.“Enough Asteria. You need to rest and regain your strength.” I stop moving and blink to clear my vision and see Lycaon. I growl louder at him as he walks closer to me with a bowl in his hand.“Stay still. You aren’t healing.” He lifts the shirt and I kick my legs to get him away when he straddles my legs and I shriek loudly. I arch my back to get him off me. When he pushes down on my chest to kee

Asteria POV.I walk towards a hill and stand on top of it. My trident in my hand as I look around for this facility. When all I see is what looks like a door and nothing else.I close my eyes and squat down and place my hand on the sand and reach down for the vibrations of my people. I feel them. They are underground. I open my eyes and focus on the pull of the link and open it to everyone of my people in the underground facility.“My people, here me. I am here to save you all. I will get you all to safety. No one will be left behind. We will bury our dead together. Please hold on, I am here.” I say when I hear groans and whimpers, some shrieks, and hisses through the link. I search for Artemis’s link and find it, but it’s weak. No, she is dying. I push to feel Perla and hers is the same.I stand, and the door isn’t guarded. I feel a portal open up behind me and I turn to see Fenrir, Lycaon, Odessa, Carter, and Javier all walkthrough with his warriors. I look to the other side and see

Asteria POV.I don’t know how long I have been in this tank or where I am. All I know is the room is dark and I’m back wearing a fucking muzzle like a rabid dog. The only people I see don’t look at me and wear ear defenders. They come in to feed me on a long pole. Not that I can leap out of the tank when my wrists are shackled to the bottom of the damn thing. I tried to use my tail against the glass, but it didn’t work. The shackles are made from something that I can’t break.They haven’t used the little sonic device which sits at the bottom of the tank next to me. I look down and see my scales are losing their shine, and are peeling like the skin on a snake when it sheds. I know one thing, though I haven’t shifted into my human form since the day I saved my people from the facility. The days blur together. I’m slowly losing my damn mind.I bang the glass to get someone’s attention, but no one is there. I keep banging and banging for what feels like hours when I give up and give in to

Asteria POV.“You want to know why I killed your wife?” I ask him and he nods his head. He was never told why, only that she got too close to the tank and I killed her. That is not the whole truth.“Why now Andrew?” I ask him and he leans forward, his elbows resting on his knees.“Please Asteria. I have to know why,” he says, his voice laced with hurt. I look away and close my eyes.“You wife was a lovely woman. She was kind to me. She would come and see me nearly daily. We would talk about what life was like under the water. How I have seen the world change over the years. She told me about her life growing up and that it was difficult for her. Then one day, she came when you were away.” I open my eyes and turn to look at him. His eyes watching me.“She didn’t look the same. She was different, frail. She came closer and opened the lid of the tank and, like always, I swam up to greet her. I looked at her and her face was thinner and grey. Her eyes were dull, and I knew she was in pain