Letting go

Ashlyn's POV
I had left the pack house earlier that morning to the river and that was when a shot was fired at me leaving me unconscious.
I was regaining consciousness when I heard Lucifer renounce his position as the Laird and when Hawking had let his guard down and I took the chance to take the gun from him without wasting time, I fired the rifle.
He'll let loose as bullets and arrows flew around. Lucifer transformed immediately and as an arrow was fired towards me,he stood in front of me grabbing the arrow and breaking it into two before running over to the shooter to rip his head off.
His comrades too had shifted and many of the pack warriors were coming out of the territory. The battle was fierce as the battalion of rebels took over fighting too.
Lucifer ex mistresses all charged towards me and had also transformed into their forms except Sofia. Celine transformed into a werewolf and Sia, Juliette and Meredith transformed into lycans.
I let Iona take control and shifted into her form and charged towards them. I scratched with my claws and bit with my teeth. These were the strongest weapon of a werewolf.
I easily took Celine down but Sia, Juliette and Meredith in their lycan form were not easy to deal with.
They surrounded me, circling me as the battle around us got fiercer.
"This is going to be your end Ashlyn." Sofia said to me while she stood outside the circle the trios were creating around me.
I snarled at her. I was not going to back down easily. The trios bent down on me trying to suppress me to the ground and use their claws to brutally hurt me and I leapt up to free myself and the force I used pushed them away a bit from me and I ran out from their midst.
Then I saw an arrow flying towards my direction and I snatched Sofia and she screamed as I placed her in front of me and the arrow penetrated her instead. She dropped to the ground dying in her own pool of blood.
From the corner of my eyes I saw Lucifer and his comrades fighting with the alphas of the rebels and a few were running away.
From the top of the hill,I saw a man positioned with an arrow and sent them towards Lucifer. The one arrow instantly became three and I ran towards Lucifer. It was like he knew the arrows were coming too as we both grabbed each arrow and the last brushed past his fur.
He growled like a wounded lycan and jumping on the rocks that led to the hill,he leapt towards the man who was trying to get away and tore him into two.
The battle went for hours and finally the rest of the rebels left raised the white flag in surrender. Already many laid dead on the ground and an arrow unsuspecting arrow had pierced through Celine too. Sia and her musketeers tried to run away and Ripper, Rage, Stealth and Kill surrounded them. They were not to be spared for their treason.
The rest of the rebels too were rounded up and bounded in chains and led back to the territory.
The smell of blood were everywhere and the scavengers of the sky were already hovering over the dead bodies on the ground.
Lucifer set the transformed lycans bodies on fire and let them burn to the ground before following the rest of the pack back to the house.
Roselia and other women of the pack house were outside the house each of them with plaids in their hands ready to cover us all when we shift back to human form.
They threw the plaids over us as we began to shift back. I stood up completely in my human form with the plaid around me and so were the others too including Lucifer.
I walked into the house. They knew what to do. Perhaps the rebels would become prisoners and be spared or they'll be hanged on the gallons.
I got into my room and went into the bathroom to get myself cleaned. I stayed in the bathtub dallying in there as I heard voices downstairs. I suspected it to be Lucifer taking actions on the rebels at least to certify that there would be another coup de etat.
I finally got out of the bathtub and don on one of the dresses in my closet. I turned around to find Lucifer leaning on the wall.
My heart raced. "How long have you been there?" I asked him as I advanced towards the mirror. Why did I not hear the door open?
"Long enough to see you dress up." He said to me. He was already dressed too.
"Alright." I said simply. "And the rebels?" I asked him.
"They all claimed to have been pressurized and deceived by Hawking so I decided to make them prisoners in the dungeon never to see the sun again." He said to him.
"Hmm," I said as I brushed my hair. "And Celine, Sia and the rest?" I asked him.
"Hung for their treachery." He said to me.
Was this the end of my trouble? "I thought Celine meant so much to you,why then did you have her hanged?" I asked him and I could feel his eyes on my back.
"Not after what she did to us." He said.
I stared at him from the mirror and our eyes met. I looked away. I still felt a little bit of anger for his distrust towards me.
I dropped the brush and turned to leave the room. "Ash?" He called me in a low tone. I paused but did not look back. "I'm sorry." He apologized.
I turned around raising a brow. "For what exactly please?" I asked him.
He advanced towards me. "Everything Ash. For not trusting you enough. Love is about trust and I failed on that part. I am very sorry. I beg you to please forgive me." He said to me.
"And what if I do not?" I asked him raising a tilted chin.
"You have every right to be angry at me and.." he began and then stopped when the door burst opened. It was Vino.
"Alpha,the vampires are outside the house." He said in a perplexed tone.
"On my way." Lucifer said.
I raised a brow. Vampires? Then it dawned on me it must be my brother.
"Darius!" I yelled out and ran out of the room and raced down the stairs and out of the house and indeed my brother and a Clutch of vampires were standing outside the pack house.
"Darius!" I exclaimed in tearful glee as I ran into his arms. He held me to himself tightly.
"My little lovely sister." He said to me kissing my forehead repeatedly. I giggled. It's been so long I've seen him.
Then I realized he was in the Nightwing pack house and Lucifer had threatened to kill him the next time he sees him. I panicked.
"You need to leave Darius. He'll kill you if he meets you here." I said to him.
"Not without you Ash." He said to me and just then Lucifer stepped out of the house and I turned around to see him standing three steps away from us. His look was expressionless. What was he thinking? I wondered.