The Beginning of The End
Chapter 32

Miya refuses to say anything else to me, so I decide to leave, there is no point pushing the matter when she has clearly grown to hate me. She asked me if I was the enemy once, and I told her no, but maybe I was. Maybe I had caused all of this.

I climb back out into the open air, the cold winds of winter hitting my lungs as I take a deep breath. I couldn't blame her for hating me, not really, she was right in a way.

I was sleeping with the enemy, I was living with them and eating at their table.

I was walking around freely whilst she was trapped in a case like an animal.

I was in nice clothes and freshly bathed whilst she was in torn rags and covered in blood.

We were not the same.

Not even close.

"I was just about to come down there, I was thinking that I'd have to drag you away kicking and screaming." Suer was trying to make a joke, but I couldn't laugh, not when my heart was breaking.

"She didn't want to see me." Is all I say as I turn back towards the mansion, slowly walking further and further away from the only friend I had ever known.

Suer does a little jog to catch up with me, "Can't say that I didn't see it coming, because I did. Humans are fickle like that."

I nod, trying not to drown in my own sadness, "Yeah, I guess they are."

The wind picks up around me, the tress swaying in the heavy breeze, I look up at the sky, grey clouds completely swallowing the sun. A storm was coming, and by the smell of the air, it was a bad one.

For once since I arrived, I am glad I'm not on the road. A snowstorm is a nightmare to navigate.

"Let's get you back inside before the storm hits, you are hardly dressed for the snow." Suer guides me back towards the house through the kitchen, humans and supers working together on the next meal they would serve.

I guess even some supers were treated like slaves. No one was truly safe, not even those who had aided Ryker in his destruction of the world.

Would I ever truly be safe? Would I ever be able to save Miya from her fate?

I hoped deep within my chest that the answer to both questions was yes, but then again, hope was a dangerous thing, and I doubted Miya would leave this place alive.

I doubted that I would ever leave this place alive. But she was right, we are not the same. Yes, we are both here against our will. But she is locked in a cage underground and I have the freedom to wonder around, so long as I have Suer with me.

I sleep in a warm bed and eat hot meals. She is starved and beaten. How did it ever become like this?

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I wish we were back on the farm with all the others, it was much simpler then, and happier too.

But all those people were dead, it was only Miya and I left, and one of us was mated to the beasts responsible for all the suffering. There were children on that farm. Innocents.

Its time I realised that the world is dead. There is no going back to the life I once had.

It was time to either adapt or die, and I certainly wasn't ready to die. Not yet.

Suer led us out into the dining room where Ryker and Maddox waited for me, their eyes raking over my body in the oversized dress and sweater, and whilst it wasn't fit for the weather, I had hardly felt the cold.

The only thing that I felt was the pain in my heart, and the aching in my head. Grief maybe? I wasn't sure, it was a long time since I had felt something like this. A very long time.

"There you are." Maddox beams, rising from his chair and coming to grab me by the waist, pulling me into him. "The only thing that has got me through this day is the fact that I could come back to you."

I force a smile, trying to hide my pain. "It's nice to see you too."

Maddox's smile instantly drops, "What is wrong?" he asks, pulling me towards the table and sitting me down on his lap.

I sigh, I should have known I wouldn't be able to hide my pain, not from them. And especially not since we are mated.

But instead of answering him, I lean into his touch and lay my head against his chest, breathing in his scent seems to sooth me, even when I don't want it to.

Suer clears his throat, getting the attention of both Ryker and Maddox. "Things did not go well with her friend." He says, nodding in my direction.

How dare he tell them?! I would have come up with something else, another reason I was sad. But he's ruined it.

I growl, lifting my head from Maddox's shoulder. "YOU didn't have to say that."

If Miya is hurt because of him, I will destroy everything that he cares about, even if it takes me the entirety of my immortality to do it.

Ryker nods at Suer, "You may leave, take a break. We've got her."

Suer glances at me, his eyes full of regret as he walks out of the dining room, leaving

me alone with my mates. But I wasn't ecstatic about it. If fact, I wasn't happy at all.

I knew exactly what they were going to say, and it wasn't going to end well. I just knew

it.

I may as well be in hell; my life is up in flames.

Everything i care about is destroyed.