The Beginning of The End
Chapter 90

I'm awake for hours, and I long for sleep to take me within its depths, but it doesn't, it never comes to me and i am left wondering what is going on out there, in the dark. Has Maddox succeeded in replaceing Miya? Has he failed?

Are they both dead?

You don't know, but the endless possibilities haunt you, they may have thought that the world would have ended with my death, but i died a long time ago.

I died when the world took its last breath.

It is them who matter, the Kings who are going to change the end of the story for this world.

I mean nothing in the grand scheme of things, i am nothing.

It is they who the world needs.

I jump when my door slams open, Ryker storming inside with a furious look on his face.

He knows. He knows what i have done.

I have allowed Maddox to go to his grave.

"Where is he?" he snaps, searching the room.

Opening every door, shouting into each room for someone who isn't there.

Someone who may never be there again.

I shake my head, pulling the blanket higher, i cannot tell him what i have done. He will never forgive me.

I wanted to save Miya so bad that i have doomed this world, just as my world was doomed the moment they came through the portal.

He turns to you, eyes narrowed, "Tell me where he is, little Fae, i will not ask again."

He hasn't spoke to me like that in a long time.

"He is gone." i say, my voice wild, like the wind that rattles the tress.

"Gone where?" Ryker asks, his eyes roaming over the bare room one more time. Just in case.

I take a deep breath, holding it for a few seconds, "He went to go and save Miya." Ryker eyes flame, and his skin heats until it is red like blood, i can feel it from across the room, and if i didn't know any better, I'd say he was going to shift.

He's losing control.

I have to make him calm down.

I slowly climb from the bed and walk towards him, wrapping my arms around, his skin doesn't burn me, not like i thought it would. It's warm. Comforting.

"He wanted to save her for me."i tell him, my voice low, "he said that he would be back by morning."

Ryker pulls away from me, looking down at me as though i am a stranger to him.

"We agreed that we would not risk anymore lives for a human girl." he growls, backing me into the closest wall. "You agreed!"

I try to turn away from him, to hide my tears, but he grabs me by the jaw and holds me there, my face inches from his.

I can smell the anger on him, its warm, but it is also cold. So very cold.

"I did." i say. "But Maddox said he could do it, he said that he would bring her back for

me."

"Then he is as crazy as you are naive." Ryker says, pulling away from me, "Do you even realise what he is up against out there? He'll be lucky to get past the first wave. It was a trap. Just as i said it was."

"Then we have to go out there." i say, acting like the answer is right in front of us. The truth is, i don' know what to do.

But i do know that i have come to care for Maddox, he is cruel and twisted in so many ways, but then he does things that make my heart melt a little. And slowly, i have softened towards him.

I don't know when it happened, but i let him into my heart.

"we can't leave him out there to die." i say, stepping towards Ryker and holding his hands, "If we go now, we can catch up to him. We can get there before anything bad happens."

Ryker laughs, it's not a nice laugh, it isn't something I'd ever choose to hear.

He's angry, he is really fucking angry.

I step back, trying to put some distance between us, but i am not fast enough, he grabs me, wrapping his hand around my throat.

He looks me in the eye before he begins to squeeze, "You have been nothing but trouble since we took you in." he says, "We should have let you die with the others and lived without a mate. You are a weakness." he leans closer, his breath fanning against my ear, "You are a mistake."

I choke, trying desperately to process what the hell is happening.

When did Ryker become like this? He's always been the calm one. The one who replaces solutions.

He's never been the cruel one before.

The door slams open moments before i lose consciousness, blood dripping on the floor as Maddox stands there, a huge smile on his face. He looks like a god. A blood-soaked god.

Ryker releases me as though it burned him to touch my skin, i scowl at hi, ready to unleash my anger on him a thousand times worse than what he just did.

That was, until Miya limps into the room, equally as covered in blood, though i have a feeling that much of it is not her own.

i step forward, hardly believing my eyes. "Miya?" i whisper, and her eyes dart to me.

She rushes for me, knocking us both into the ground as her body slams into my own, i gasp, and laugh and cry.

I'm consumed with so many emotions that i do not know which one to cling to. Hope. Happiness. Fear.

I have never been so grateful to another person, Maddox did it, he fucking did it!

"I knew you wouldn't leave me there." Miya whispers, sobbing into my chest.

I look at Maddox and he winks at me, "Ryker, let's leave these two alone." he says, anger in his eyes.

He saw what he did, he saw him trying to hurt me.

Maybe i should try to stop the argument that i know is coming.

Blood runs fast when they argue.

But right now i don't care, let them beat each other to a pulp, i have Miya back, and

right now, i want to concentrate on her.

I need to make sure she is ok.

Fuck everything else.