Chapter 226
Chapter 226
He grins at me like a fucking idiot. “She’s found her beacon of light.”
‘Beacon of light?’ Aero quizzes
“What are you talking about?” I demand
Damien shakes his head at me,“She’s surrounded with a darkness that she is constantly fighting off. The darkness slowly crushes you. It takes over every inch of you when you are least expecting it.”
“While Neah fights it, there is no space for her to have the ability to be a strong and powerful Alpha. We can protect her, we can give her the tools to help her stay in control, but we can’t fight it for her. That’s something she has to do on her own. And she can only do that when she finds the thing that gives her hope. And it sounds like she has found it. She just doesn’t realise it.”
‘We didn’t give her hope?’ Aero sounds defeated. ‘We are her mate.’
‘I don’t think that’s what he means.’ I mutter back
“There must be something else we can do for her, that I can do?” I ask the Lycan staring back at me.
His dark eyes hover on me as he slowly shakes his head.
When it came to Neah, I often felt powerless. It was a shitty feeling, watching my mate struggle and not being able to do anything to help her. She was having more good days then bad but the darkness was still there, seeping into her thoughts.
Sometimes I would catch her staring into space. Her dark thoughts weighing heavily on her as her mind shifted through them.
“So you are saying that the twins will be the ones to save her?” I press
“The ones to save her. The ones to give her her strength. The ones who will make her really understand who she is. Raven is my light just as those pups are hers.” He gets to his feet. “This could be her turning point, Dane. This could be the thing that really puts her in power. She just needs to hold on to that light.”
I had questions about Raven being his light. From what I understood he had broken free of rogue life long before he met Raven. But the questions were not relevant right now.
He reaches the door and turns his head back over his shoulder. “I will be your Beta, Dane. But at the end of the day, my priority will always be protecting Neah. Oh, and you can be the one to break the news and I will not be referring to you as Alpha.” He smirks before heading out the door.
I tidy up the office before going to find Neah. It buys me some time, trying to decide what I should say, in the end I opt for the truth. Lying could have an even worse outcome. And I want to grow old with her. Surrounded by our kids and grandkids.
She’s sat in the large armchair in front of the window of our bedroom. The twins are cuddled into each side of her as she reads them a story. I recognised the book too. It was one of the first that Klaus had given to Neah to help her learn to read.
A children’s book about animals. It had been flung across the room multiple times when she struggled.
Her eyes flicker up to me, but she continues to read as though she never once struggled.
Both boys are asleep by the time she is finished. She closes the book and smiles at me while hugging them tighter but her smile slowly fades. “What’s happened?”
“Salems dead.”
“That’s good isn’t it?”
“Blair killed him.”