Unleashed

Ashlyn's POV

My pride was hurt as I ran out of the house. I was visibly shaking by this as I found myself sprawled on the ground outside crying my eyes out.
What was I expecting? That he would suddenly have a change of heart?
"Foolish you Ashlyn going all out of your way,your principles and manners to confess what you felt in your heart to him." I damned myself amidst my sobs.
How was I going to keep living here seeing his face and knowing that I've been rejected. My heart has been rejected. I clenched the front of my dress tightly as I cried. It would have been better if I never told him. It would have been more better if I never nurtured those feelings.
This was not purely my fault! My heart gave way to his torture and menial care. It was not my fault!
I was not going to stay here one minute. I was going to disappear and hope never to be found by him. I could not possibly face him after this rejection. I stared at my body. What's so fancy about you that he does not want anything else from me? What? I demanded of her and I got no answer.
Even I had no answer to this. I wanted out of this place and as the clouds darkened indicating the signs of rain, I did not move away.
Let the rain come down and wash away my tears. Let it wash away every shame in me. Let it fill my soul and drown my fears. Let it rid of me the love that was threatening to burn me.
I kept sobbing as the downpour came and every part of me was wet. I scrambled on my feet to flee when I heard Roselia's voice.
"Why are you out here in the rain milady?" She asked.
I turned around to face her. "I'm letting it wash away every little dignity I have left in me. I'm worthless!" I cried out to her.
"Never utter such words from your mouth again." She forbade me as she grew closer with an umbrella.
I shook my head. "It's the truth and reality just hit it hard on my face. I'll never be loved. I'll never be wanted! Not by my family! Not by anyone else!" I yelled out to her sobbing.
"What are you saying now?" She asked me worriedly. "Come inside. Let's not speak under the rain." She said to me but I refused.
"I cannot go in there. I'll only be reminded of my rejection." I said to her.
"Milady please!" She pleaded.
"I'm sorry Roselia but I'm leaving," I said to her and turned away.
"But you cannot leave! The Laird needs you. He needs your love!" She yelled out.
"He does not!" I found myself getting emotional again. "He's better off without me and so am I," I said to her and began to run not wanting to hear anymore
"His pride is preventing him from realizing the truth milady! Please come back! He needs you more than ever! You cannot abandon him at this point! He's in bondage of his birth stars!" She yelled after me but I was not paying attention to her. I just wanted to be away. Away from the cruel alpha. Away from anything that had to do with him. If I could get rid of my heart just to get rid of him too but I knew better. It was impossible. I'd die without it and it felt like I'd die if Lucifer does not reciprocate my love.
I turned on my swiftness ability to run through the forest. Running without stopping as the rain kept falling upon the earth and the smell of dirt in the air.
I was far from the Nightwing territory and I stopped breathing hard. Running and crying under the rain did not go together and I found that out in a difficult way.
I thought of where to go next. Who would I turn to to take me in? I could not go home. I was not ready to suffer any more humiliations from my father or receive taunts from my two brothers.
A sad realization dawned on me that I was all alone in this cruel world. I had no one except Darius. I concluded on meeting him. He should take me far away from the rest of the family and Lucifer too. I've endured too much pain.
I've faced too much trauma and this was the last drop. The last I could take.
The rain was beginning to lighten and I turned on my heels running again, towards the direction of home and an arrow flew past me and got stuck on a tree. It shocked me so much I stumbled backwards in fright and stopped.
I turned around wondering what was going on and I saw werewolves coming from every corner of the woods.
I panicked and turned on my swiftness to flee but was shocked more to see lycans in front of me. I was surrounded. It was like they were waiting for me and I walked right into their ambush.
"Aye,what a fine bounty!" One of them exclaimed.
"And to believe she belongs only to the supreme Laird." Another hissed out advancing towards me. He was full bearded and heavy
"Do not move an inch closer to me." I warned feigning boldness.
"Ain't no mistress finna tell me what to do." He hissed out again.
"It's our lucky day today! This will get the Laird out of his place. A very fine trade in exchange of him handing the reins of leadership to my alpha." He said and grabbed me.
I screamed kicking at this big man but it made no effects on him and then I found myself screaming a name minutes ago I wanted to forget. "Lucifer!"
Lucifer's POV
"Alpha! Alpha!" I heard Roselia's voice outside the door as she banged hard on it. I ignored her not opening the door. I did not want to be seen in this state of mine.
"You have to open up!" She yelled out.
"I want to be alone!" I said to her.
"Ashlyn is gone!" She yelled out and I was breathless for a minute. I hastened to the door and unlatched the lock.
"What do you mean by she's gone?" I demanded in perplexity.
"She said she could no longer stay here and she ran." She said to me.
I hastened down the stairs unable to feel the rush of adrenaline in my veins. I found myself panicking and as I ran out of the house to find her,I heard her cry to me. I heard her deep in my heart and I knew she was in trouble. I whistled for Ruthless and he came charging out of the stables neighing out loud.
I swung on him and rode down the forest. Not bothering to let any of my comrades know where I was going. Only I wanted to find Ashlyn. My mistress and as the thought came in,I turned it off. My mate.
As I searched for her,I began to realize and admit to myself what I've been denying all along. The feelings that had tormented me day and night. No one had ever made me feel so much emotions like she does. Was she my fundamental weakness or my strength?
I picked up her scent and noticed she'd been on this side of the woods.
"Ashlyn!" I yelled out and I got no response. I could not connect with her through the mind link which meant she was far away from where I was.
"Ashlyn!" I yelled out again but still no response from her. I came down from Ruthless as I tread deeper into the forest. Where would she go? Home? I doubted it. She loathed her family too much to do so. Where was she?
I was out of the territory and her scent was still in the air and still fresh. She'd been here moments ago.
"Stay here friend. I'll go find Ashlyn." I said to him but he neighed shaking his head. He would not let me go alone. "Fine." I said to him and shifted into Steel's form following the scent of Ashlyn with Ruthless right behind me.
I kept following her scent under the mild rain and in my unconscious mind to get quickly to her,I fell into a trap. A trap set exactly for a lycan. I growled making an attempt to break free from it when a choker rope was thrown over me and other lycans emerged pulling the chains hard on me.
I growled. I fell right into a trap set by my own subjects. Ruthless made an attempt to save me but he was no fit for these mighty beasts.
"Kill the goddamn animal if possible!" One of the unshift lycan yelled out and in a flash Ruthless was thrown off with a clawed attack. I growled loudly. No! I could not lose Ruthless! I saw him on the ground bleeding from where he had been cut.
Then I saw Ashlyn been dragged towards me with other lycans and werewolves behind her. Her mouth tied with an handkerchief. She looked at me with fear.
"Well well, it's the mighty supreme Laird is it not?" One of them said and he looked awfully familiar to me. Part of a clan I knew but could not place my fingers on.
I was not even thinking. All I cared about was Ruthless lying on the ground and Ashlyn being mishandled.
"I have your pretty mate here and I'll only give her back to you in exchange for something." He said.
I growled at him. What was this fucking bastard talking about?
"If you want the lady here,you have to step down from being the supreme Laird." He said and I growled at him. I was stepping down for nobody. My lineage never did and it would not begin with me.
"The choice is yours Lucifer Saunron." He said. How dare he try to bargain with me? I was angered as I pulled on the chains used in refraining me bellowing loudly. I was fired with an arrow and I growled.
She watched in horror as they tried to kill me to make me surrender. I pulled on the choker around my neck and lowered my body and lifted it up at the same time and I threw off a few lycans holding the chain away and I got a bit free but instead different arrows were fired at me hitting me on every part of Steel's thick skin and as the moon rose up in the dark sky,I felt weak as I fell to my knees as I began to shift back to human form and in a few minutes would be in my demonic beast form. The invincible One was not as invincible as he thought.
Just then I saw one of the lycans begin to pull the string of a bow holding three arrows in them. In my human form,I would be a dead man and as he pulled the strings Ashlyn screamed. "No!" And it came out as a muffled sound and as the arrows flew from the string, she kicked at the man holding her hostage and in a speed like that of lightning she got the arrows in her hands before they got to me.
I stared at her in shock. She loosened the handkerchief over her mouth. She stood before me.
"Anyone who comes closer to him would have me to contend with!" She yelled out with so much anger and vigor that I've never seen in her before.
"What can a witless vampire like you do?" They taunted and I wanted to rip them in halves for that statement.
"Try me." She said,her tone underlying warning. She sounded so fierce and sure of herself. Just when I thought I would transform into my demonic beast form under the moonlight,the moon went into hiding as a thick cloud of rain made it unseen.
"Get them!" They yelled charging towards us.
In a flash was Ashlyn snapping out the necks of the unshifting men. She had her fangs out and buried it in their necks. I was shocked and amazed. Was this Ashlyn? My Ashlyn?
She was untouchable as she let out a deep yell from her very core. Her eyes were bloodshot and her expression that of a killer vampire and a vengeful werewolf. Where did her sudden strength and courage come from?
Then I heard the bellowing of other lycans and I turned to see that my comrades had come for me and were shifting into their forms and unleashing the beast in them on the other lycans.
I broke free from the trap that caught my leg and was able to shift back into Steel's form and side by side with my comrades and my mate every werewolf and lycan that had laid this ambush was dead to the ground.
I turned around to see Ashlyn breathing heavily and I ran to her swinging her into my arms as I shifted back to my human form as the rain drizzled.
I held her tightly to myself despite being naked before her. I never wanted her out of my sight again.
We were back to the house and I had don on new clothes. Ruthless was being attended to in the stable. I hoped him to be fine. I could not afford to lose him.
I sought for Ashlyn in her room but found her not. I saw Roselia who told me she was standing outside the drizzling rain.
I rushed outside and indeed she was. I went to her hugging her from behind. The little things I did with no one else,I did with her.
"Do not ever run away from me." I said to her. I almost lost my mind tonight. I went crazy in frantic search for her.
She turned around. "You did not want me." She said to me.
"Do not say that," I said lifting her chin up. It was time I let her in. "I do want you Ashlyn. Not just your body but your heart also." I said to her and she stared at me wide eyed.
"Do you mean that?" She asked me and I nodded. "Am I getting your heart too?" She asked me.
I swallowed. "You have it. I'm willing to give this a trial but I cannot promise you anything. I cannot give my word that things would change quickly." I said to her. Her smile spread allover her face and it melted my heart. Why was I just realizing she had such a beautiful smile?
"As long as you're willing to try,I can wait for you to love me just like I do." She said to me.
"We'll take it one step at a time." I said to her.
"You're worth the wait." She said to me and I felt my heart beat faster as I lowered my lips on hers. What good deed have I done to deserve her? But yet I wanted to be this way with her for eternity.