Chapter 22: Disclamier, trigger warning, suicide and domestic violence is mentioned

The blade was shining in the sunlight, the blade pointed and long. A hunting knife, no doubt.

Jareds eyes were wild with the knowledge that this blade could quite easily kill one of his friends, and the thing he had been trying to get rid of for years, the Golden wolf. The abomination to all wolfkind. He ran, at a human pace though, towards the wicked thing, his whole families hopes and dreams of a better world is going to come true today, nothing will get in his way. Nothing. But, Lucinda was the first one to fight back.

She put her hand towards him and started chanting a spell, her eyes were glowing, her hands were shaking and her words were not those anyone understood. As she chanted her hand lit up, then a bright blue light shot from out of her hand, towards Jared. The beam made him stop, and she picked him up with it, he wailed around in the air but she had hold of him. As long as there was no loss in her concentration he will stay up there until she sees fit to let him back down. Jessie and Gordon changed into their wolf form and stood guard around her, they would only set him down when they knew that Darley and Max were safe.

Darley saw this as an opportunity and ran towards the building, the doors were closed and it was dark, but she wasn't fazed. She yanked the door open, just to be hit with a god awful stench. The poison they had been using to keep Max in those chains. She held her breath and went into the building.

It was pitch black, her senses were tingling, she didn't know where to go she just knew she had to get her mate back. As she walked in she smelled that somebody was there, but the poison was that strong she didn't know how. Suddenly, someone jumped out at her. She was struck in the shoulder, she screamed in pain.

The person moved, and stood in front of her, by the hair she knew it was Rachel.

"Why are you doing this?" Darley shouted. Rachel was surprised that she spoke to her.

"The same reason you've walked straight into this trap." Rachel got the kife and twisted, the pain made Darley fall to the ground. Rachel leaned in, "Because, we have no choice." Then she ripped the knife back out and walked to the otherside of the room. She started to pace.

"You see, we women are classed as a lesser class, Jared has made sure that I knew this. I wasn't allowed outside of the house without his presence and I had to make sure to keep the house clean and tidy. I was gone for months, I coudn't go anywhere. And you never noticed that I wasn't around much, never came to check on me, or called me and I was under constant supervision. All women are, his whole family is like it. They believe that women are there to cook and to have sex with the man. I was made to do this, constantly. My bubbly personality was squashed out of me and the person they morphed me into is here. I was beaten on a daily basis and thankfully his wolf does not like him, so it was the man. Except my wolf has too fell out with me so I couldn't defend myself. I was purley just exisiting on Jareds terms. It was a poor excuse for a life." She finished her sentence and looked at her once friend, she was jealous. Darley had a choice, she does not. The only way to make Jared love her, was to finish his job.

"Why didn't you leave?" Rachel laughed.

"I tried, so many times. And each time I was caught by one of the rouges he had guarding the place. Then he cut me, with the very same knife I stuck in your back, as you did mine. I've been your friend for 15 years, and you didn't notice I was gone. That was the biggest knife in the abck that I had ever had." She moved forward, and crouched down.

"Now, I get to stab you, and then I get my life back." She took her foot and put it on Darleys injured shoulder, she pushed her over. Then stood over her holding the knife. Darley knew she couldn't escape, the poison was choking her that much she couldn't really see. Rachel held the knife and started a prayer, she closed her eyes then plunged the knife into herself. Darley was shocked, and struggled to get up but she did, she went to Rachel.

"Why?" She asked, Rachel looked and smiled.

"I couldn't do it. I love you, my sister." Then she died.

Darley cried, her sister from another mister was dead, and she was in imense pain. But, she would not let Rachel's death be in vain she will fnd her mate, and put that monster down.

She got up and staggered to the door, opened it and went down into what seemed a basement. As she got to the bottom of the stairs, she couldn't see her mate, her shoulder was screaming and her eyes were stinging, her lungs full with poison. It all overcame her, and she fell into the vast unknown.