The Beginning of The End
Chapter 67

Snap out of it Elora!

I shake my head, ready to slam my head against the nearest wall, but I can't, not with Miya asleep on the bed across from mine.

We were placed into a small room, though I suppose it's more like a cell, the door is locked, and there is nothing a part from two beds and a small room with a toilet.

That's all we are allowed.

I'm a slave now, a slave to Maddox and Ryker.

They saw my hesitation to kill an act of betrayal, but it wasn't, not really. It was so easy

to kill out in the wilderness. It was either kill or be killed.

I didn't have a choice. I didn't even have time to think of an alternative.

I had seconds to choose whether to live or die, and I chose life. I chose to kill so that I could survive.

There is no shame in that, at least, I don't think so.

But clearly Maddox thinks differently, we are not the same, we haven't spent the last five years in the same situation.

I was hunted and alone until Miya came along, and it was Maddox and his men that hunted me. It was his men that I killed. His people.

Maybe I should feel bad, maybe I should regret the choices I made, but how can I? I made those choices to survive.

There was no other way back then, in the wild I had nothing and I still wanted to live, I would have fought until my very last breath.

I run a hand through my knotted hair, if only I could explain all of this, explain that I never wanted to betray them, and in my eyes, I didn't. All I did was decide that I didn't want to kill anyone when there was another choice.

It's the first time there has ever been another choice, and I wanted to take it, I wanted to show mercy where I was given none.

Miya stirs as the locks click on the door, Suer poking his head round, "it's time for you to go, human, you will be with the others mopping and cooking." His voice was so hard, so cold and cruel.

It wasn't the Suer I had come to know.

It was shattering my heart.

It proves that I was never anything but an assignment.

I'll always be a filthy fae, I can't change that. But I am proud of it. My people fought with bravery, they died to try and protect the humans.

They died with dignity and strength.

I can only hope I will do the same when my time comes.

I wont think about how the war started. I won't torture myself with things I can't control.

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Move forward, keep my head up high, keep my fear hidden.

I will gladly send them all to hell, I will gladly take Miya and run, but first, I need to figure out how.

Miya stumbles to her feet, fighting the last remnants of sleep from her eyes, "ok, I'm coming." She says softly.

"What about me?" I ask, rising to my feet. "What is going to happen to me?"

Sure glances at me as he ushers Miya from the room, "you are to remain here until you are called, if you are called." He frowns, "your food will be brought here, you will eat alone, sleep alone, spend all day alone." He says, "no one is allowed to enter here, not even Miya, not until she is given clearance."

"You are isolating me?" I ask, heart sinking. "I won't see my mates?"

Suer takes a step into the room, his shoulders almost too wide for the door frame, "They don't want to see you, fae." He says coldly, "they don't want to be around a traitor."

I scoff at his words, I was already a traitor to my own kind when I accepted the mate bond.

I have nothing now, no one but Miya, and now they are taking her away from me too.

How could Maddox do this?

Why was he doing this?

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"Fine." I whisper, trying not to show the pain in my eyes. "It's not like I have anywhere to be." I snap, "not since the world ended."

"Your world ended." He growls, "mine is as strong as it has always been."

I shrug, "don't be so sure it'll stay that way."

He slaps me around the face, hard, fast. I fall to the ground, clutching my cheek, my eyes wide.

"You will not speak back to your superiors." He says with a smile, "otherwise you will be punished." He leans close to me, his voice dropping low, "This is only the beginning Elora." He whispers.

Suer leaves, taking Miya with him, leaving me all alone. But maybe that's for the best. I used to do better on my own.

I can come up with a plan and get the hell out of here, I just can't leave Miya behind.

I can't abandon her, and I know she won't abandon me. Not like Maddox has done.

It is over. The mate bond can dissolve for all i care.

I won't let them see me break.