Hunted

Chapter 23

Audra's P.O.V. 

I felt someone gently shaking me and starting moaning while swatting my hand randomly in the air. 

"Audra, we need to leave," I heard a voice mumble. I groaned before I felt myself being lifted in the air. 

"It's cold," I mumbled while I started opening my eyes. 

"It's early morning, it's going to be cold," Atlas explained. I wrapped my arms around myself while pondering on how Atlas was able to carry me. I thought that I was pretty heavy. 

"Sleep Audra, I'll let you know when we get to the ocean," Atlas said. 

"What about the girls," I said while opening my eyes. I quickly shut my eyes while groaning because of how bright the sun was. 

"They're still asleep and I locked the front door. Don't worry I've checked the house and it seems to have some sort of defense system and hideouts in case something happens," Atlas explained. 

"When did you find that out," I questioned, wondering when he took a look around the house since I never even got the chance to do that. 

"While you were taking your sweet time at the stores," he said. I huffed while remembering I wasn't taking my sweet time, instead I had hypnotized a boy by accident and then managed to get lost in the other world, but I didn't need to tell him that with everything else we had on our plates. 

I somehow managed to go back to sleep with Atlas carrying me all the way to the ocean. 

***

"Ah!" I screamed before I was consumed by water. I popped back up and glared at whoever threw me in the water. I saw Atlas laughing while he was still wearing his shorts and t shirt, but no shoes. Did he walk all the way here with no shoes on? Come to think of it I couldn't really get him shoes since I didn't know his or Dana's shoe size. 

"Enjoying the water?" he questioned. He quickly took off his shirt and I turned around when he started reaching for his shorts. I noticed that my clothes were left on and now completely soaked. I groaned because that meant when we came out I was going to have damp clothes and his would be completely dry. The water was up to my waist and it felt pretty nice being in the water with the sun hitting my face. 

"Why didn't you transform yet?" I heard Atlas question me while swimming over to me already in his siren form. 

"Turn around and I will transform," I said, knowing that it was best to take my clothes off or else I would have nothing when we came back on land. 

"You transform, I need to go get something," I heard Atlas say before he dove into the deeper part of the ocean. I walked a little deeper so the water was to my shoulders before slipping everything off. 

Transforming was a little hard to do, but luckily I was able to still transform. I figured that I would dive and explore around a little before we went back up to land. I made sure to stay very close so that I wouldn't get lost anywhere. 

I didn't mind being a siren, but I loved my family more and wanted to be back home with them. I tried to think of when either of my parents left when I was a toddler, but I could never think of either of my parents not being home for a second. They had both been home longer than twenty four hours, but even as I tried to think about them, my memories of them grew hazy. I blame it on all the beating and abuse I received as a child that my memory is really bad. As long as my memories of Grayson and Henry are in my head, I am content with that. 

I can only hope that they're ok and somewhere safe, but I also was very worried with this sinking feeling in my stomach. For once I didn't know where they were and I had a very bad feeling wherever they were and whoever they were with.