“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”
I felt fine, I look over myself, nothing looked out of place. I even peer down my own hospital gown, the usual scars still lingered, nothing had changed there.“I only have a headache”He smiles at me, “Maybe, but what he means is the level of wolfsbane. The doctor doesn’t understand how you are still alive. Any other wolf would have died a long time ago.”“I’m not just a wolf though am I, I am vampire too.”His jaw drops, his eyes wide as he stares at me.“It’s what a Royal is, a mixture.” I don’t understand how he didn’t remember, I don’t understand how my timeline wasn’t matching up to his.He had asked me if I had seen the future but that couldn’t be right either, Hayden wouldn’t have died otherwise.I looked at him, he was busy pacing, “You really think you are a vampire as well?”“I don’t think, I know”He starts laughing, a deep throaty laugh, like I was telling him some crap.“It’s impossible Ashley, wolves and vampires cannot reproduce”I think about all the times I could com
“YOU CAN’T”His green eyes glare at me, but he doesn’t try anything else. His hands smooth out the sheets on the bed before he sits in the chair. A complete change of behaviour comes as he tells me he will keep me company until Daryl returns. He sits with his hands on his lap, not really paying me much attention and closes his eyes, tipping his head back.I watch him as he falls asleep and creep towards him. I could kill him, again. My fingers reach out to touch the scar on his face, my fingers had traced it so many times before and yet it was like it was the first time I was touching it.Dropping my hand, I look around the room, searching for something, anything that I could use to kill him. I try to shift but nothing happens when he suddenly grabs my wrist. His eyes wide as he glares at me.“What do you think you are doing?” his voice is low“Nothing” I mumble, but his hand was tight around my wrist. As I try to twist it, I feel the burn of skin on skin.His hand lets go of my wrist
A few months has passed since all the craziness with Lucian. Things had settled down massively, well, apart from being thrown into motherhood and raising triplets. I was just glad I wasn’t doing it on my own.Daryl was still getting used to having a smaller pack. Although he had already been out trying to recruit other packs that were smaller than ours. Some had accepted whereas others had told him where to go. The pack was still much smaller than the average wolf pack with less than a hundred people now after many had lost their lives in the fight against my brother, but he was certain he would make it great again. After all, he really wanted to pass on an almighty pack to Daryl Junior, the eldest of the triplets.In just a few months the three of them had grown quite quickly, instead of being like three-month-olds, they looked more like eighteen month olds and certainly liked to keep me busy and on my toes, especially since they were already walking and running. I assumed they were
More bullets come as I keep low, the stench of Lucian’s blood filling the air as he hovers above me. With each bullet, I am splattered in his blood, but it continues to do little more than slow him down.“You have not learnt a thing!” he roars at me as his claws wrap around my neck, lifting me from the ground.I should have been afraid, scared for my own life as I faced death when he suddenly stills. My feet dangling in the air at least ten inches from the ground. His deep amber eyes staring into mine, but he was quiet, no sound was coming from Lucian and yet everyone around us was yelling.His claws pierced the skin of my neck, my own blood trickling down over my cool skin as I watched Lucian’s nostrils flare. He was enjoying my scent, like it was something he had been longing for. This was not in my plan.His teeth sink into my shoulder as I let out a scream, and I see people charging towards Lucian. Daryl was shouting out something about protecting the Luna.Lucian’s jaw refuses to
“I will stop this.” I try to reassure the tiny beast in my arms, but I still didn’t know if I could even kill him, if it was even possible.“She will never be yours!” Lucian’s voice howls around us making Natasha’s little beast cling to me harder. Her tiny claws piercing my skin as they dug into me, her body trembling as his voice echoes around us.“Drop the spell.” I whisper to the small beast. Lucian was using her to put the spell around the dungeons, to stop others from getting any closer, but she was still a baby, could she even understand what I was saying? Could my reassurance be enough?Her small furry body continues to tremble against mine until it suddenly stops, momentarily scaring the crap out of me. When I hear soft snuffles coming from her and gently turn her head. She had fallen asleep on me. She had gone from a terrified little beast to one in a deep sleep, she had needed me so much more than I had ever known, and I feel a shift inside of me. The need to protect her, no
“It’s not that simple is it. I may have some magical abilities, but he still has years over me. Years of training, years of knowledge, years of planning what he calls his redemption.”“But there is something he possibly didn’t account for. A mother’s love, a mate’s love. The fact that a whole pack will be right behind you.”It just didn’t seem true. Maybe I had been looking at this all wrong and it wasn’t just my fight anymore.“Then how am I supposed to make myself stronger?”“You already know Ash, look at the things you have been capable of. Personally, I don’t think you give yourself enough credit.”I was completely soaked from the heavy rain as I stared up into his amber eyes, the blue flecks shining brightly through the storm. It wasn’t just me that had changed but it seemed like he had too. His once sulky and moody self had mellowed out.“What ever happens Ash, you have three babies that need you.”I slowly bob my head, he was right, but I had still left them to check on my best
No one stops me, no one even comes after me as I race through the forest towards her house. She had to be here, it was where it had all started.As I break out of the forest, I see it, her small house sitting on the opposite side of the road. A trail of blood leading up the few steps as the door sat open. Anyone could walk in here, anything could have found her.Creeping towards the house, I knew the trail of blood belonged to her. It was dry though and had been sat here for a while, but it didn't remove her scent.“Tasha?” I call out her name as I step in through the front door, hoping for some kind of response but I was met with silence and what was worse is the trail of blood ended in the middle of the room. There was nothing, no body, no pool of dried red, but more importantly there was no sound.The floorboards didn’t creak like I was used to, no weird smell from all the herbal teas she had scattered around.“Can you hear her?” I mutter to Reaper. I didn’t even know why I was ask
The omega keeps her head low, not speaking as she remained in the room. She was our biggest risk right now; she was the only one to know that I had had a third baby and I couldn’t have her revealing that information, not to anyone.“You can’t say anything!” I plead with her, hoping that she would understand.“They need to be checked over.” She mumbles back at me and Daryl shakes his head“Kiera, you cannot tell anyone, you cannot share the news of Ash having a third child. Do you understand?” He was using his Alpha tone, a tone that I was only to familiar with.The omega gulps, her eyes wide as she slowly nods her head.“I need you to say it Kiera!”“I won’t tell anyone, but how are you going to hide her, what if she is a poorly pup?”Daryl looks between me and the omega as I gently rock our little girl.“Kiera, you will become Ashley’s personal maid. You will do nothing else in the house except for helping Ash and tending to the children and monitoring any changes in them!”“But the
“For you!” Lucian punches the stone wall of his cell, splitting the skin on his knuckles which heals instantly.“I don’t understand”“Of course you don’t sister.” He laughs manically as he tries to pull the bars apart. I was glad Daryl had reinforced them.“You weren’t to know I was going to have children.”He looks at me from the corner of his eye. I was so stupid, I had told him of the vision, the one where I was left alone with twins, the one where Daryl was not in the picture. How could I have been so stupid?“You told me that not all visions were correct that some were just created in my own mind!”“Yes, but I saw that vision too, sister. Getting into your head was much easier than you trying to get into mine. Any time your wolf was dormant, it left an opening. A chance for me to see everything!”“Just kill him Ash” Daryl links me"Whicjh is why you wanted Amber to trap me?"He starts clapping."About time you figured that out."“You would never have found me without Daryl!” I ye
The omega hands her to me, she was much smaller than the boys with tufts of dark hair that matched Daryl’s, bright amber eyes peeping out under her eyelids.I still didn’t understand, the doctor had shown me the monitor, pointed out the two boys, how could he have missed a third baby or even a third heartbeat.Silent tears run down my face as I look at the three of them, how could I protect them? How could I protect my daughter from my brother? He was so set on taking her.“You did well.” The omega smiles at me as she drapes something over my legs, but I glance at the door. I had a bad feeling growing in the pit of my stomach.“He’s coming.” I mutter.There is fear on the omegas face as her eyes widen and her body stills.“You’re scared of him?”“Every omega is.” She sits next to me.“You know I’m not talking about Daryl, don’t you?”She nods her head and mutters Lucian’s name back to me.“What did he do to you?”He didn’t have anything to do with the omegas.“You don’t know?” she que
It was strange after experiencing Amber's world!Being able to run through Lucian’s mind with his beast chasing me was something I had never considered happening, nor did I think it was even possible and yet here I am. To be in someone’s mind was almost disgusting, you never know what they might be hiding and it was apparent that Lucian had been hiding alot.I had never bothered to ask the name of his beast, but something tells me it’s up there like mine. Reaper, another name for death and she certainly did have a dark side.“Tell me where she is!” I scream as I continue to run.“Give us your daughter!”“I have already told Lucian, they are boys, no females.”“You lie! I can smell it. You are carrying a girl!”Here I had no bump, if anything my stomach was flatter than flat. Was this how Lucian really saw me?He chases me through the greyness of Lucians mind. There was no colour, like he only saw things a certain way. Anytime I get a chance to grab something to throw, I do. Lucian con