Novel & Cerita I Couldn't Become A Hero

"I will help you any way I can. All you need to do is open yourself up to me." "Why me?" Lily blurted out. "Why do I have to be the one to go through all of this?" Tears stung her eyes. "I just wanted to live happily alongside Jayce and raise our children together." She wiped her eyes. "I never asked to be a hero or a savior. I just..." She let out a shaky breath.

She planned on being on the same battlefield as her father. Yuna wholeheartedly chose to become Namjoo’s ally. It wouldn’t hurt to have another ally on her side. Yuna responded to Namjoo’s pestering, “It’s embarrassing to say this, but I haven’t been able to learn martial arts. I have a war hero as a father, but I wasn’t trained. Most people have an advantage, because they were taught at a young age. I wasn’t fortunate enough to be like them.”

I hated every minute of it. “You need to let them celebrate,” Kael said as I tried to escape yet another banquet in my honor. “They need heroes. They need to believe that impossible things can be overcome.” “I am not a hero. I am just a wolf who survived long enough to make a difference.” “That is exactly what a hero is. Someone who survives when survival seems impossible and uses that survival to help others.” I leaned against him, tired in ways that went beyond physical exhaustion. “When does it end, Kael? The fighting, the crises, the constant struggle?”

The insults, discouragements, the slaps and the night almost slept outside since I got home late from a photo shoot. The pain was raw, I couldn't breath, I felt choked up with sobs. I hate feeling intimidated and inferior in front of Mr Cage the great. I can't believe I act as a superhero that saves the whole world but I can’t save myself from my own personal villain. What an irony of life. I really need a strong drink.

Then, so quietly she almost missed it: "Thank you." "For what?" "For not letting me be the hero. For not forcing me into that role." He turned to look at her again, and there was something raw in his eyes. "I spent my whole life being told I was destined for greatness. That I was the most important person in the kingdom. And then I met you—both of you—and I realized that I was just a character in someone else's story. That I'd never actually done anything to earn my place." "That's not true."

I'd worked so hard to become stronger, to become someone who could protect others. But in the end, I couldn't even protect myself from my own self-destruction. Then nothing.

“But what kept me going wasn’t pride or ambition, it was hope. Hope that someday, our work could save someone’s mother, father, brother, or child. Hope that no werewolf would have to suffer in silence again.” The room was silent, all eyes on me. “I wouldn’t be standing here today if it weren’t for my incredible team—Dr. Hayes, Dr. Patel, Amelia, Evelyn, Marcus and everyone else who gave their all. You guys are the real heroes.” I paused, scanning the audience until I spotted Jennifer waving at me from the back. “And to my best friend, Jennifer—you believed in me even when I stopped believing in myself. Thank you.” Applause filled the hall again.

"Why didn't anyone stop me from becoming this?" Kai Jr. placed his hand over mine, over the paper, over the petal that represented something I didn't dare name. "They didn't know how to," he said simply. "Or they feared what would happen if they tried. Or they could not see the path you were following until it was almost too late. But we are here. We are trying now."

I couldn’t save them. Not like this. I wanted to be the hero, to bust into the dungeons, yank them both out, and tell them everything was going to be okay. But I couldn’t even get past the damn fence without shaking. They were right in the lion’s den. And I was just a scared, reckless idiot from the wrong pack who didn’t even have backup. I swiped angrily at the tears blurring my vision and muttered under my breath, “Damn it, Kael. Why didn’t you tell me?”

My leaking eyes met my brothers, a superhero? Where on earth did he come up with that? All I had ever done was course trouble. “You’ve always looked after me, even when mommy couldn’t. And… and Nicky says your fighting for the people who can’t fight. That’s what superhero’s do.” I’m not superhero, I’m just some loud mouthed kid who can’t control their word vomit. “I’m no hero, Freddie.” He was seriously adamant. If anything I was a villain, everything I ever held dear had been ripped out from underneath me because I couldn’t accept my fate. If I had just have accepted the king mom would still be here.