This is a fairly short chapter but i wanted to update and wish everyone Happy Holidays....i hope to update this chapter fairly soon so please don't yell...

Dark Sun

Dougal was walking from his lair through the park to the bar where he had Carpathians usually meet him, when he saw it. Two females who had probably once been dressed alike but now you couldn't really tell, were being played with by three vampires. The first two, the ones holding the girls, didn't worry him. It was the last, the master, which drove fear and pain into his heart Emilio, his younger brother. He stopped knowing he shouldn't be feeling. The wonder of it amazed him. He realized instantly what had happened, his päläfertiilam was here. He had found her, her scream must have called to his soul. He couldn't lose her, not even to his precious brother. He called to Devin. He would need his help to defeat his younger brother, especially now that he could feel again. Feel the love that he had always had for his younger brothers. Even as he felt the pain roll of his beloved little lifemate, not pain he realized determination. She would allow them to kill her if it meant protecting the other…too bad he wasn't positive which was dying and which one was truly his.

Ciara knew she must get Solana released; after all she was dying losing too much blood. If Solana got released and got far enough away she wouldn't feel her pain when they killed her. She wouldn't feel her twin slip into the next life. Marisol would join Solana in mourning but she would also make her smile. After all Marisol was the unexpected little sister. She had gifts and Solana, Paige and her had worked hard to help Marisol get where she was today, months from graduating top of her class in anatomy, psychiatry, and law enforment. Marisol would be able to take care of herself, mind and body. She always teased that Solana, Ciara, and Mom were her soul. In truth Solana and herself were her everything, she adored them the same way they adored her. Marisol would save Solana. Even as she went to ask for Solana's safe release, she saw another come forward. He was behind the mastermind and she wouldn't have seen him at all if the man holding her hadn't put her body at a weird angle. He looked to be looking for something. Or someone. He looked at her and Solana for a moment before one of the men made them scream. The pain, the pain, her brain screamed shout it out…she couldn't though…how was she to know how Solana was doing if she did? No she must trust in the man the others couldn't see. Looking at his face for just that split second she saw something. A look of awe, a look of compassion, a look that had she not been in this predicament she might have thought was pure love.

Suddenly Dougal knew which one was his. She had seen him. The calm that crossed his mind then was like a caress it brought out the beast wanting to take her then even as her presence seemed to calm it in some small way. When the vampire went for her throat though the beast snarled and even the man inside couldn't stop it. The beast took over, changing into mist appearing behind the vampires with the girls and breaking their necks. Drawing the vampires attention to him, instead of the two now bloody females. Both hissed and grabbed for him but they were fairly young and he grabbed both hearts within seconds. Lightening came from the sky even as he threw the beating organs to the ground. Devin had arrived bringing with him the lightening that was much needed. Turning he saw something he had hoped never to see…his lifemate in the arms of a master vampire. Emilio laughed seeing his face, taunting him with his failure to protect her. "The poor little one, look at that blood Dougal, see how it rushes down her throat. She isn't strong enough for you. Look at how little she is, you need a stronger woman. Your little päläfertiilam is dying brother and you shall join us. You do not need her. You may have whatever women you want once she is gone. Come Dougal will shall kill her together and you will be free." Even the beast inside didn't want her dead. Dougal didn't know how to tell his brother that she couldn't die, he would follow her to the ends of the Earth to be with her. So Dougal said the first that came to his mind... "Emilio I thought I had killed you. What kind of hunter am I to have let you live? How did you survive any way?" Dougal knew though. He had been so tired after fighting his brother, the first to turn, that he hadn't cleaned up after himself. He hadn't called down lightening. In doing so he might have just condemned his other half to death. Emilio had his mouth to her throat, she tried moving away from the acid like drool he left on her throat, even as Solana screamed before passing out from the pain and blood loss.