“I have to find him Daryl”
“You will but can we just go home for now, please”
I look over at Jax’s body, blood was still seeping out of his dismembered limbs.
“He came for you, he led the hunters here and you just want to go home”
“Yes, I want to go home, I want us to talk about what just happened”
“Why? You know what happened, you lied to me again!”
He sighs as I go over the same facts, my words turn to yelling as I begin to lose my rag with him and what makes it worse is that he just stands there watching me, not saying a single word but a smile gradually appears on his face
“What?”
“Do you remember the day we first met?, you went on a rant then too and it was at that moment that I realised that I did love you, you were the reason I fought so hard to break the curse”
“What has that got to do with him?” I point to Jax&r
He walks down the hall towards my office, the weight of the world on his shoulders and before he goes in he gives me one final glance and asks if he can have some time to think.I nod although a little confused as to what was happening and watch as he shuts the door behind him. Whatever was going on with him, it could wait, I needed to speak to Jack or maybe I should go after Daryl.Whilst I hover on the spot trying to decide, Taylor comes in through the door huffing and puffing“He is such an idiot” she slams the door behind her, hard enough to make the photo frames on the wall shake and stands with her hands on her hips, she was the most like Tasha.“What’s the matter now?”“Jack”“You have been to see him?”She nods “He is being stupid, he tried to kill himself because of our mate bond”“Really?” It didn’t seem likely“Uh huh, st
“You still shouldn’t have done it. Now when I die, you will be heartbroken”“It was my choice but I would be either way, and besides I refuse to lose you, not now, not ever”“Rudina, you can’t keep fighting my fate and you need to concentrate on finding Rudy”“And I need to figure out what Jack is”He wanted to talk more about his impending fate but I just couldn't bring myself to talk about it and he knows it, and doesn't push the topic anymore“We will find out together”We were just about to head back to the dungeons when Mia mind links me“Rudy has been seen”, she sounded so excited and Daryl smiles as I tell him the news,“See” Daryl mutters at me, his fingers still trailing across my bare skin“Where?” I ask Mia, wherever he was, I was going to get him and bring him home“A couple vampires spotte
“How is that even possible?”She shrugs her shoulders “How am I supposed to know?” There was a hint of annoyance in her words“Taylor I didn’t mean it like that. I’m just, well I’m shocked that’s all” I turn to look at Daryl “Did this happen to you, when you became wolfless?”He shakes his head and frowns, rubbing his chin“Is this why Jax wanted someone with amber eyes. He wanted to see if he could take away our abilities?”Again he shrugs his shoulders as Taylor takes a vial of blood from Rudy's hand, his bllod oozing out of his hand when she removes the needle and he doesn't heal“What do you need that for?”“I’m going to test it Auntie, if he has no mark, he may no longer be a hybrid”Is that even possible?‘I don’t know Reaper, but what if it is?’Hopefully only Jax
Rudy finally relaxes after we give him some more answers, we still don’t tell him what we are because he freaked out about hearing voices in his head so we fill it’s just best that we don’t for the time being.Daryl gives him a chance to stay in the house, he would have guards stationed outside his room and they would accompany him anywhere he went. He was a bit confused about the guards until we showed him around the house and he uses the notebook to ask if we were some kind of King and Queen.Daryl smiles “You could say something like that”Rudy stands staring at us with his mouth wide open, which was not a pretty sight given that his tongue was missing.I put him in the room next to ours, and as we head back down stairs, Mia and Taylor already waiting for us“I want to see him” Mia demanded and I watched Taylor roll her eyes“Auntie I have tried telling her but she seems to think she has the
The scream was loud and echoed across the grounds waking up the pack and as the lights of nearby houses flickered on, the dim light revealing the face half hidden by a green hood. Taylor!Rage and pain were the only things I felt as I continued to scream.Taylor doesn’t move other than dropping the long sword, her amber eyes on me as pack members step out their houses or the forest. Vampires appeared too showing how far my scream had reached.My guards grab Taylor, holding her in place as my rigid body takes tentative steps towards her, with each step I took my body shifted, I purposely wanted the shift to be slow, I wanted Taylor to feel fear for what she had done, she had taken away my mate, the father of my children, her uncle, the packs Alpha, the love of my life.Reaper was just as full of rage as I was, the pain I was feeling slowly shifting into the darkness that resided within me, with each step I take the darkness enveloping every cell of m
It had been almost a year since I lost my mate, my best friend, my true love. I wish I had been told how much pain losing a mate would cause and how long it would last because the truth is, it never goes away and you can only learn to accept it along with being alone. Truth is, I didn’t want the pain to ever go away because to me it signalled that I wasn’t ready to move on and nor do intend too. As I sit watching the twins crawl around, I smile and hoped they would never feel the same pain that I do but at the same time I was grateful to have them here, a boy and a girl because they kept me fighting another day. The boy I had named after Daryl, Daryl Junior or as I had been calling him DJ, two minutes older than his sister, he was the spitting image of his father, right down to his eyes. They were not the traditional amber colour of a Royal but bright blue and they gave me hope that he would have a better life than being the leader of the Royals when my time was up.
The man stares at me, a crooked smile on his face, his frame filling the doorway. It couldn’t be Daryl, I had seen him die, I had watched his life get ripped away from him.He frowns for a moment, waiting for me to say something, anything, but no words come from my mouth, instead my mouth opens and closes like a fish gasping for air, as I try to understand who was stood in front of me.The man’s eyes were dark “Let’s go home Ashley.” He holds a hand out towards me.No one had called me that in a long time. My name rolls off of his tongue and he glances around my room. The room that was my own, the room that I had been living in. He frowns as he takes in the bare room.“Please Ashley, you don’t belong here”“Who are you?” I frown at him, my arms hugging my own body as I back up against the window.He moves towards me, his hands still outstretched, waiting for me to take them. His bro
He holds my hand, my hand looked tiny in his. I look at it confused, trying to process how he was holding my hand, it felt exactly the same as when Daryl held my hand but I was certain, this just couldn’t be Daryl.I only hear parts of the conversation, tuning in and out as I took in my surroundings, they looked familiar.“She had enough wolfsbane in her system that it should have killed her”I don’t really take in his words, I just knew that what Hayden had been giving me, had been dodgy, it was why I had started poking them out the small hole in the window.His hand squeezes mine “Are you okay Ashley?”“Why do you keep calling me that?”His eyebrows knit together, “It’s your name, the name you told me when I found you that night”“You mean the night you set me up” I snatch my hand out of his and start pulling the different wires and tubes from my skin as the man tries to calm me down.“Ashley, don’t do this, it’s the effects of the wolfsbane.”“No, I saw you die, I saw everyone die”