The Alpha’s Desire 5(15)

 

 

 

Guilt flooded my system once again. I couldn’t stop the feeling that if I’d just been able to kill Daniel last time that none of this would have happened no matter what anyone said to me. It scratched away at my brain, my emotions, a little bit at a time. I’d talked to myself until I’d been sick of hearing my own thoughts to no avail on the way here. I could think it all I wanted, still my feelings didn’t listen, wouldn’t change just because I told them too.

 

 

 

I needed to be ready this time, to end him or anyone else that lived to hurt others. While even as a wolf I had no thirst for blood, I needed to defend, to protect, and my canine mouth had been built for such if need be. This time the need did be. This time I would own up to my responsibility no matter what if it were to be laid upon my shoulders again. Selfishly, again, I hoped it wouldn’t.

 

 

 

“I’m so sorry, Nira, that this is happening again,” I said coming out of the long, endearing hug.

 

 

 

“This is not your fault, dear. I knew you would be carrying the guilt of it. You do not control him. He has to answer for his own actions. He could have been grateful you spared his life. He could have used that opportunity to change his ways. But that was not the course he chose. This has nothing to do with you. These are all his issues, the fault all his own, though, unjustly, I’m sure he bears none. The man is a monster. The things he has done. It is time he is put to a stop,” Nira replied.

 

 

 

I nodded, as everyone seemed to get that but me. It had been repeated enough, even if I didn’t comprehend it yet, I was a lost cause myself in a way. I’d been good all my life of acting one way even though I’d felt another; that way, if you acted fine even if you weren’t, at least everyone stopped asking you how you were as a little motherless girl. That trait alone had saved me then, and would this time too if put in the situation again to end Daniel.

 

 

 

“We all feel the same,” another vampire that I recognized from the last time I’d been with the group said, a kind smile on her face of welcome. “We are grateful to have you and the Royals here to help. So grateful. I can’t explain how it has been and what a relief seeing you come to our aid is.”

 

 

 

“We are happy to be here to help you, to return a favor,” one of the Royals spoke up who stood behind me.

 

 

 

“It all equals out in the end,” another vampire responded back. “We should all just be thankful for such an alliance.”

 

 

 

Cheers went around though low and a tad unconvincing, still we all tried to keep our spirits focused, to talk the talk so we could walk the walk. This fact alone shook me to my core. Not that I would have called any of us cocky, but we had a way of holding ourselves, being confident, believing in our abilities that this man had damaged by taking so much from each side. I didn’t believe it fear, but each of us he had hurt, and all of us were weary. I tried to at least keep that in mind as I missed the bravado I’d experienced last time.

 

 

 

“I’m happy to see you looking so well,” Nira said, obviously changing the subject as she led us to waiting SUVs. “Marriage has agreed with you.”

 

 

 

“Yes, it definitely has,” I said, looking back at Lex a second. “Not to mention life on that island, magical powers, being a werewolf. It has been the most amazing seven months. I hope to find the time to bore you to death talking your ear off about it.”

 

 

 

“I hope so too. I’m so happy for you. You deserve this. I did a little digging into that file of yours that I’d been sent before and never had a chance to read before that battle. You have had a hard life, yet you have proven yourself a survivor. You deserved that time. Wish it could have been more as I wish you had come back for a visit under different circumstances. We shall get that time though. One day. And, I will not be bored in the least.”

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter Five

 

 

 

Nira and her vampires brought the group who were stuffed into a few black SUV’s close to an outlying area of woods near to their safe house. Nira had explained on the ride there that they’d had to find yet another one, as each one prior had been attacked by Daniel and his pack. To be overly cautious, not drawing attention to ourselves with big, expensive vehicles in a rundown neighborhood, or with a large amount of people going into one house, we’d had to make a trek the rest of the way, splitting up into groups, using the dark of night to file into the ramshackle house undetected by houses of people that never seemed to sleep, according to one vampire.