As She Should Novels & Stories

she said. She said it like she meant it. She did mean it.

As they say, problems should be solved by nipping them in the bud… Yes, if she put it that way, she believed she did an awesome job!

Because right now? She is.

She should say something. "Thank you for helping me. I'm sorry for the trouble." He looked at her quickly. "No trouble. Um…do you feel okay?" No, she didn't feel okay. She felt drained but she didn't think she was going to faint again. "I'm okay." She said. They reached the security doors and he used a card to open them. "After you, Ma'am—Ashleigh."

As she should have been all along. As she was now. Finally. As she always would be from here.

I shut my eyes feeling a strange headache. “We should be ready right?" She asked. I shook my head affirmatively. " Do you understand what I am trying to say?” “I do…I don't understand why though.” She looked up at me with a bit of skepticism. " Just do as I say . Prepare your mind.” I was pinned. " Well let me get going.” She sighs, pulling herself up. She walked slow steps toward the door and stopped. " Ashley?” I turned back and looked toward where she was.

I felt so useless, like a burden Ashton shouldn’t have to carry. “Hey,” Ashton said, her voice soft but urgent. She gripped my shoulders, steadying me. “Don’t do that. Don’t you dare blame yourself for this.” I looked up at her, barely able to see her face in the faint moonlight filtering through the trees. Her expression was tight, her jaw clenched, but her eyes softened as they met mine. “This isn’t your fault,” she said firmly. “None of it is. If anyone should be apologizing, it’s me. For not keeping you safe, for letting him get to you in the first place.”

She sat up, stretching her arms and legs. "Now it's time to teach that bastard a lesson." “Calm your horses. Do you really want to fight against all his warriors?” Zeph scowled, rolling her shoulders as the last traces of numbness faded. “So what? I’m supposed to sit here and let him get away with this?” Ashral crossed her arms. “No, but you’re not going to charge in recklessly, either. You just regained your strength. Ryker is smart enough to expect you’ll fight back. You need to be smarter.”

After releasing me she kissed me on my cheek and left me there in shock again. This word ‘Shock’ is becoming constant feeling these days from the time I met Asha. She is really something. Now what should I take her answer as ‘Yes’ or ‘No’…………..

But she didn’t sit quietly. She stood. And faced us. All three of us. “There’s a war coming, isn’t there?” I hesitated. Then nodded. “Yeah. I think there is.” “Then I want to be ready,” she said. “Not just as your mate. But as your equal.” Asher exhaled a laugh, low and reverent. “You’ve always been our equal, sweetheart.” “No,” she said. “I’ve always been more.” And damn if she wasn’t right.