“You are really going to go alone?”
“Yep”
“Ash, you are insane!”
“Maybe but I have survived this long”
Tasha shakes her head at me and takes another large gulp of blood “Look Ash you are my best friend in fact my only friend. If you think this is going to be a good idea then I support you but for the love of God, sorry Goddess when can I stop drinking this shit?” she screws her face up and waves the half drunk glass in my face making me laugh
“When you feel like you have had enough”.
“That doesn’t seem like it is ever going to happen”
I knew exactly how she felt, it was the same when Christian took me to that prison. I almost drained the guy dry.
“But I am going to take you with me”
Her long eyelashes flicker up to me “I thought you said…”
“I know but its Daryl, and I am positive he will n
“You were surprised I was still alive and yet you never came for me”He looks away from me “It was a mistake, you are all I have left of a family”“Why now Lucian, why the sudden change of heart?”“I do not like the vampires, nor do I like the wolves”“Okay, what does that have to do with the change of heart”“You are missing what I am trying to tell you”“What?”“Why do you think Breydon was so keen to get me out of the meeting room?. I bet he told you I am a loner of some kind”“He wanted you out the way of his plans, he knew you would tell me”He nods “Exactly. Now let me meet Tasha”Lucian follows me up the steps, into the dark house and into the room where I had left Tasha, she was sprawled out on the sofa, face down and groaning.“Ah the craving has kicked in”Luci
My head was all over the place as his lips touch mine, sparks erupt between us but I pull away immediately trying to hide what I was feeling“What the fuck Daryl, what do you think you are doing?”“Showing you that we still have something. I know you felt it too”, his smile is genuine as he looks at me“That’s not the point Daryl, you can’t just go around trying to kiss me whenever you feel like it. Besides I am with Christian now and you are an asshole”He looks away from me to the spot where I walked out the forest “It worked then?”“What are you talking about Daryl?”“You changed that girl, I knew as soon as I picked her up, the human scent was gone and had been replaced by a smell similar to your own. It was why I moved her from the dungeons just in case she woke up. I have to say Ash, it took me by complete surprise that you actually did that”&ld
Shit! Slowly turning around I see Christian’s large frame, he is stood about a hundred metres away looking furious and even from this distance I could tell his nostrils were flaring.Daryl climbs off of his bike and stands in front of me, blocking Tasha and I from Christian but I step around him watching Christian stride towards us, his eyes darkening with every step.Christian grabs me by the shoulders, shaking me and stares into my eyes “What has he done to you?”“Nothing”“Then why mate are you kissing him?”“It was nothing, just a peck on the cheek goodbye, he is leaving” I push his arms away from me “He is wolfless Christian, he can’t hurt me anymore”Christian curls his lip up sneering at Daryl “Another lie, what has he done to you?” He stares into my eyes trying to read me“Nothing, I have been here the whole time” Tasha tries to rea
“You need to choose Ash”“Why do I?”“Because you clearly still have strong feelings for him. I don’t know how or why especially after he was so cruel to you”Daryl interrupts “It was the spell”“Yeah right. You have always been the same Daryl, everything has always been about you. Not once have you ever cared for anyone but yourself”“Really Christian, who was there for you when Pria died from her mistake”Christian frowns at Daryl“What does he mean Christian?”“Nothing?”“You’re lying”He sighs and pulls his hands over his face “Pria didn’t want to live in a pack anymore, she fell in love with a vampire”I was gobsmacked. Christian had told me Matthew had killed her and as I look at him, he refuses to look at me and he grits his teeth together.“Matthew di
As I stand locked in place by some invisible force, I realise how Amber had somehow been the mastermind behind all of it, everything that had happened she had a part in but what she didn’t expect was for Daryl to break his own curse.The uncontrollable laughter rolls through me and I can no longer contain it, as ludicrous as it was Amber was jealous of me, a girl who had nearly lived her whole life as a slave, kept from her true self.“You’re jealous, that’s hysterical”Amber takes another step down, her race reddening in anger “There is nothing to be jealous of slave”It was the most pathetic insult I had ever heard and I had been called some truly horrific things over the years, being called a slave, well that was just telling me what I once was.The pressure on my body tightens and lifts me off the ground, it started to feel like I was being crushed, my organs being squashed by the pressure. I couldn&rsq
Taking a deep breath, I feel my ribs shift a little, they were slowly healing and although we heal quickly the process still hurts.Lucian drops to his knee in front of me “I promise you Queen Rudina, I will stand by you as our Queen”He was pledging an oath to me making me slightly uncomfortable and the others enter and copy Lucian except Daryl who watches on with a frown on his face. When Tasha and Christian have finished telling me their oaths I look at Daryl“You don’t have too”. I was still sceptical about Daryl, his blue eyes held a sadness as he gazed at me“It’s not that Ashley, I am without a wolf. I do not know how much of a benefit I can be to you, I am practically human”All I could do was nod, it was true, the vampires would tear him apart in minutes as he no longer had the capability to heal.“Then why are you even here?” Christian snapsDaryl looks around the r
Daryl welcomes my hug, although a little stiff at first he settles into it “What are you saying Ashley, you want me?”“Yes, but Reaper wants Christian”Holding me at arms length he looks into my eyes, sparks erupting between us as his dark curls fall over his face “I am not sure what that means but after all that I have done? You still want me”I nod, “We want both of you”“That will not work Ashley”“There is only one way to find out”I tug him downstairs looking for Christian and find him with Lucian and Tasha. Christian looks between Daryl and I his eyes flashing to black for a moment. Tasha and Lucian make their excuses and leave but it was obvious from Tasha what they were really up too.“You have chosen him, the man without a wolf”“Not exactly”Christian snorts “What does that even mean?”“I am
“I’m sorry Lucian but I can’t. My life is here now”He screws his face up in disbelief “This place?”“What’s wrong with it, I love it, its small and cosy”“You could live in a mansion”“Maybe I don’t want to, besides I have built a life for me here”. Yes I was desperate to see Tasha, I missed her the most but I couldn’t go back.“Ash, you cannot live like a human, no matter how much you want to, you are not one of them”Flopping down on the sofa next to him I groan “Why are you really here?”He glances at me “I have told you a million times Ash, you are a Queen, you need to accept that”“No, I don’t”I know I was being stubborn and he was right, it was hard pretending to be human, some days I would make my way out of town to the forests and shift, only for a few minutes to feel t