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“You changed that girl, I knew as soon as I picked her up, the human scent was gone and had been replaced by a smell similar to your own.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”
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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
“Are you still an Alpha?”“No”“Then why are we going to Crescent pack”“Because that is where Christian is at the moment”I take in a deep breathe, another man I had not seen in five months and I wondered if he had changed as much as Daryl.“Are you two talking?”“Yes and I think you should know that I am his Beta”That was not what I was expecting to hear and it shows that by living as a human I had missed out on so much.“I will warn you Ashley, he is not the same man”“What do you mean?”“It is easier if you wait until you see him”Daryl helps me to pack but keeps his mouth shut and I feel like he is holding something back“Ready?”He picks up my small suitcase and leads the way down the stairs and to a large car where Lucian is waiting. As I climb in the back he tells me
She has a huge grin on her face as she rubs her swollen belly, Lucian wasn’t wrong, she looked ready to explode.“It wouldn’t be chaos if you were not here”Daryl pulls off his jacket without missing a beat and stands in front of me, using the jacket as a sort of shield as I shift back. He raises an eyebrow at me as I slide my arms into the sleeves but doesn't look down at my nakedness“She’s not wrong is she”.Thankfully the jacket is massive on my small frame and covers everything as he zips it up and as he moves out the way he reveals Tasha who wraps her arms around me awkwardly because her bump is too big.“It’s true then”“It is”“Why didn’t you tell me?, you could have mind linked me”“I was forbidden”“What? By whom?”, But I already had a feeling I knew who.“Christian”He