The Beginning of The End
Chapter 51

The walk to the cells was horrible, the bitter wind bit at my skin, causing me to shiver and tremble, even with Suer's jacket wrapped around my shoulders. It was torturous, but it wasn't even close to what Miya would have faced down in the cells at the hands of the hellhound shifters.

I can't imagine what she has seen, let alone what they may have done to her.

I just selfishly hope that she has held on.

I don't want her to suffer, but i also don't think i would be able to any of this without her.

"Why are you trying so hard to save the human?" Suer asks, watching me from the corner of his eye as we draw closer to the hatch.

"She saved me once." i admit, keeping my eyes on the guards who were stood by the hatch. "It was during a time i didn't even know i needed saving."

"That makes no sense." Suer scoffs, "How can you not know when you need saving?"

I look up at him, trying to mask my anger. "Because it wasn't from a physical threat, it was from within me."

He stops, looking at me sligjtly differently. "You were going to kill yourself?" He says it with such disbelief that anyone would consider such a thing.

Clearly he has never struggled with inner demons.

Clearly he has never spent years alone, sleeping with one eye open or in constant fear.

"I think i would have eventually, had Miya not come along." I shove my hands in the pockets of his jacket, trying to keep my hands warm.

When i think back to how reluctant i was to even help her, i almost laugh. I had no idea back then what she would begin to mean to me.

I had no idea i would grow to love her like a sister.

Maybe if i had, i would have handled her grief a little differently. She lost her father

that day, but i gained a friend for life.

Does she realise just what she means to me?

I will have to tell her, there is no time like the present. Telling her might help her adjust utrutten ream illiérweraren konthyoning utrácentrestler.”

Will she be happy with her supervised freedom or will she long for more?

Of course she will want more, I want more. I want true freedom and she will too.

But i can't give us that, not yet anyway.

Maybe one day i will be able to set us free, but first, I had to help my mates destroy Darax. I had to get revenge for my people, for my family.

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If i'm lucky Miya will see the benefit of revenge and help me, but i doubt it. She isn't an evil person by nature. She is too gentle.

"I never believed you to be a coward." Suer suddenly says, stopping in the middle of

the field. "I never thought you were selfish either, your death would have been a tragedy."

I frown, stopping a few feet away, "What?"

"Killing yourself is the cowards way out." He growls, grabbing my shoulders and shaking me, "Do you realise what would have happened if you did?"

My eyes are wide as i shake my head, confused.

Who the fuck does he think he is talking to? Suicide is not the cowards way out, it is brave and painful, not an easy escape.

It takes strength to decide when enough is enough.

"Ryker and Maddox would have never been able to have children. They would mourn for what they would never have." Suer growls again, relasing my shoulders and causing me to stumble back a few steps. "They would have had a hole inside them they would never be able to heal."

My frown deepens, "I don't understand, why wouldn't they be able to have kids?"

He shakes his head like i am stupid, "Hellhounds and Dragon shifters can only reproduce with their fate, no one else."

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"Oh." I murmur, taking a step back. "I didn't know."

"Never tell them what you told me, Elora. I don't know what they'd do, but you would never be alone again." He takes my arm, pulling me forward once more. "Let's go get your friend, the sun is going to set soon and then a storm will come."

"OK."

I keep my eyes on the floor, slightly embarassed. Why wouldn't my mates have told me all of this?

Could they really not have children without me?

What if i decide i never want to have kids?

What if i decide i don't want to be immortal or what if Darax murders me as he would like to?

What would happen to them then?

I had so many questions, and i wasn't even sure i would ever be able to get answers for them.

But i couldn't worry about that right now, i needed to focus on getting Miya to agree to be my maid. I know she'll hate it.

She will try and fight me, she will try to say she would prefer death. But i do NOT want her to die, and i would fight her over it. i will keep her by my side for as long as i can, no matter how selfish that might be.

I need her, and i just hope that a part of her needs me too.