It was ages before Tasha turned up, I was almost close to sending a search party out for her but as she knocks on the door, Daryl makes his excuses and leaves. He knew we had much to discuss and as much as I wanted him to be here, he said it would probably be easier if it was just me and her.
“Taylor told you didn’t she?” she refuses to look at me, her eyes darting around the room
“It should have been you Tasha, you should have been the one to tell me. You are my closest friend, why didn’t you”
She focuses on her feet “Would you have killed them?”
“What?”
“You heard me Rudina, would you have killed them?”
“The girls?”
She shakes her head at me like I was stupid “The humans?”
I pause for a moment to long,
“See” she shakes her head “You haven’t killed anyone since Christian, it is like you have gone soft.
“That was what he offered her”He completely missed what I had said, “Daryl, she wanted me to go with her”“But your place is here”“That is not what I am saying Daryl”He frowns at me, his eyebrows almost knitting together and I laugh as his eyes widen at the realisation of my words.“She’s in love with you” he exclaimsI shrug my shoulders “She said something about me screwing up by killing Christian”“That was always your plan though, the only way to end the war”“Something is wrong Daryl, she complained about her children not being right. She knew about Rudy all along, she knew the girls had human mates. Why didn’t she tell me?”His arms slide around my waist “Relax, there is always a reason for everything”I turn in his arms to face him “How can you be so calm. She thought you couldn&r
“We will find him. I will make sure of that”“You’re really not going to run?”I don’t know how much Tasha had told Mia but she obviously thought I was going to abandon her. A lot of things had changed since I had accepted my role fully. It had made me mentally and physically stronger.“No Mia, I am not going anywhere”“Promise?”I crouch down in front of her, although this girls looked like they were eighteen and had matured quickly, they had only been in this world for a few years and all they had really known was war and a rubbish Queen.“I promise Mia, I am not going anywhere”A small smile spreads across her lips and she rushes across the room to me, wrapping her arms tightly around my waist.I tell the girls that I need some time to think but also asked them to work together to see if Taylor could undo what Mia had done to their mother. Taylor groaned
The warriors brought us Tasha’s headless body, the girls break down as soon as they see her and whilst my heart was being stabbed, I kept a straight face as we buried her, I had to stay strong for everyone in my pack especially now and with the growing concern over the hunters, but as soon as I am alone with Daryl, I too break down.I spend the night curled up against Daryl’s warm body, in and out of sleep, he doesn’t talk, he just listens, listens as I cry, as I rant and even when I make no sense but he stays consistent with his hand running through my dark hair whilst holding me tight with his other arm.“Daryl they have to pay”“They will, but I thought you always wanted us and humans to live peacefully together”“I do, I did, but how when they are purposely trying to take us out. We don’t hunt their kind, blood is taken from human prisoners, why do they keep coming for us?”"You have t
He furrows his brow, his lip curling up on one side, “That isn’t possible, I’ve read all about your kind, you can only be mated to the same freak”I let out a laugh “Oh there is so much you do not know” I couldn't let on that I only knew as much as he did when it came to the mate bondHe can’t take his eyes away from her as he spoke“I have been studying you for as long as I can remember” his eyes finally leave Taylor and he stares at me“How do I know you?”Daryl growls, and mind links me “You know this human?”But I ignore him and look at the floppy haired man “I worked with you”Daryl and Taylor both gasp at me “When?”“When I was away for five months”, I shift uncomfortably, it was still a time that Daryl didn't like to talk about, “before you were born” I add for Taylors benefit“You kn
“DROP HER” Jax calls out to his people“But she is one of them”“I don’t care, now drop her. I am certain she will come willingly”“How can you be so sure? That other girl put up one hell of a fight”Mia, they were talking about Mia. But how could Jax be here, I was certain that he was dead and so was Daryl but as I was slowly lowered to the ground, his blonde curls were a definite give away, although they were now shoulder length and had dropped into more of a wave, making me think of a surfer.The silver rope was loosened and I crash to the ground, as soon as I get to my feet I go for Jax, he had put me through hell.Within inches of him, the silver rope tightens around my leg, holding me back and I snarl as once again it starts burning my flesh“How the fuck are you still alive? You are one…”He cuts me off “Oh Ashley, what an interesting place to
She scoffs at me as I tell her all about my history with Jax and how he was Daryl's Beta“He is one of us?”“Well, he was the last time I saw him”“Tell the other humans”“We will never get out of here if I do that”“Why didn’t you just kill him?”“I didn’t know who or what I was at the time”She rolls her eyes at me in the dark, probably thinking that I wouldn’t be able to see it“Besides, how did you get captured?” I ask“I knew where he was being kept” she glances at the body on the floor “But it was a trap, they were expecting me”“Of course they were Mia, they already had Rudy, they knew someone would come for him”“Well you are here too. So it doesn’t look like I am the only stupid one” she scowls at me“I haven’t got time for yo
Mia stands staring at us in shock as Daryl and I discuss how we are going to get Rudy out, she didn’t like any of the ideas we suggested and kept insisting that we go back immediately but that would be to obvious and completely expected by Jax.“We have to remember Jax played me” Daryl was frowning at me “He was well ahead in his plans, although it failed when you killed Hayden” Daryl gives me a little smile“But we can’t leave my brother” Mia was whining“I am not saying we should leave him, but going in all guns blazing is not the answer and you should know that”“But he is my brother”“And if our Queen hadn’t been caught, you would probably be dead right now” Daryl snarls at herThey continue to argue, but there was a strange scent in the air, that thick grimy scent of humans, why did they stink so much when their blood was so sweet.“Gu
There was buzzing in my head as Reaper screams so hard I feel like my ears are going to pop.“Brothers! Brothers?”Another secret that Daryl had kept from me, I stare at him, a bead of sweat forming on his brow as he waits for me to do something.“You lied to me”“No Rudina, no I didn’t. I thought he was dead that was why I didn’t tell you”“Who is Rudina?” Jax asks confused at the name change“I am” I growl at him and Jax laughs“He betrayed you, he attacked me and you still didn’t tell me”“Rudina, it wasn’t as simple as that, he is a half brother” he mutters at me“I thought you were an only child and now your brother is leading the very people that hate us”Jax had a mischievous look on his face, we had somehow played right into his plan whatever that may be. He wanted me to discover