Chapter 48

EMILY

I left with my grandmother holding my arm as we left the office, Dane following behind making sure we were both safe. I love my mate so much.

I feel so drained due to what I heard about my father, he not only hurt me but my sister and her wolf too. How could someone be so heartless? He tortured Sapphire just so he could control her. That explains a few things that happened whenever he was around for the last few months Sapphire would growl or even ignore him. Mila never noticed anything as he always made her forget.

I wish my sister would come back; I want to explain and make every right with her.

Being in a slight deep daydream, my grandmother guides me to my room which is located opposite Mila’s room. I sigh looking towards her door.

I turn and walk into my room.

My grandmother turns to Dane “Can you give us a few minutes? I need to talk to my granddaughter alone. She can tell you once we are done.”

Dane looks back at me, making sure its ok to leave. I smile and nod at him. He places a kiss on my cheek, “I have to speak to Nate anyway, I have something to tell him” he says as he turns to leave.

Once he has left and out of sight “Emily dear, we need to talk about your father. I think you need to know some things before you consider everything. I know you loyalty lays with Mila but you need all the facts and I know you are not going to like any of it” she says in a serious voice.

I look back at her and notice that she seemed torn about something. Her eyes burrowed together “Go ahead grandmother; I will hear what you have to say.”

Her grandmother smiles back at me and nods. She takes a seat on the chair which is facing the window “You see as you know your father is a proud man. He told you when you were younger about how we escaped our coven and most of them were dead due to some dark magic and rogues” she says as she looks at me, I nod “Yes that’s what he told me. What’s wrong?”

She sighs “He told you some lies, our coven was under attack but the man Yariel that he mentioned, he said he started it” she looks back at me, I soon realize that there were sadness there in her facial features “He did but with more help from your father” she says.

I gasp “What do you mean?”

She looks at me, a tear slides out her cheek “He and Yariel were best friends at the time. They both had mates, from different beings. They wanted to be with them but our coven was hell bent on stopping them being together, they had strict rules about other super natural beings being together.”

“Once the coven told them to leave their mates and reject them. Both men were livid. They didn’t want anyone telling them who they could love. I wasn’t part of the problem as the rest of the coven went behind my back. They knew that I would not agree to it. They all came to an agreement and made it public knowledge without me being notified. Your father thought I made the choice. I would never think about separating mates. He made a big scene and stormed off saying we were going to pay” she says while looking out of the window.

“He left the coven that night” she sighs but her face says more. You can tell she was trying not to go back to that place. She turns to me...

“Your father turned up a few days later with Yariel and a few other members of a dark coven that wanted to get rid of us. They wanted everything that we worked for. I never believed in anything the other members said but obviously the others thought the different types of species mating was uncalled for. Your father started chanting and fire exploded everywhere, catching every material that was in range, women and children screaming while the men try to put out the fire. The fire spread everywhere, killing everything that it touched, even people” she sighs, more tears slide down her cheeks “I lost good friends and family that night.”

“So Dad started the fire, why did he blame Yariel?” I ask trying to work out why he would blame someone for what he did, especially someone who he bad mouthed all the time.

“Your father thought that the coven leaders kidnapped your mother but she was being held by Yariel. Your father was made to believe that we had her but when he realized that we didn’t and Yariel came into the room with your mum, everything fell into place” she looks away “Your mother was in on it too. But Yariel and her made the whole thing that the leaders took from her. They made out we were holding his mate. Your mother was a dark Fae, we knew of her work. But the leaders sentenced her to death for her crimes against my knowledge so I had no say in the matter. He blamed everyone for what she did except the one who caused more damage. He told your father to kill everyone and they all could live together in peace. Your father was shocked that Yariel who had grown up with for years would stoop so low but we learned that Yariel's mate was dead. He must have known she was but he was not showing any signs of heartache.”

She still has tears flowing “I know what it was like to lose your mate, when your grandfather passed away, a big part of me left with him. I had to fight to protect our coven but also look after your father. Your father just grabbed your mums hand and killed the leaders. I was outside the boarder so I didn’t know only when a young boy who saved me, he told me what your father did. He wanted to save his own mother but that was a sad realization that she was dead as she was a coven leader. She had the same point of views as me” she says.

“Your father never knew I knew what he did. When we left, I overheard him with Yariel telling them they had to go their own separate ways. When Yariel left, there was a woman waiting for him and I knew one thing, she was his mate but he lied to your father about her being dead. Your father loves you very much and he would never hurt you Emily but when Mila’s family came and they were under your father’s protection. When he realized that Yariel was working with the rogues, he made some sort of deal with them. I think he wanted to use Mila to discover whatever Sapphire won’t tell him. He knew you were very close that’s why he did what he did. Your mother wasn’t in on it but if she knew all about this, she would have helped you” she says “She changed about five months later and even started be good especially after having you.”

She gets up out of the chair and walks straight to me.

“Emily, I believe your father is still working with Yariel and the rouges, it’s funny how they would show up on times when Mila was on her own. He must have been testing her” she sits next to me “We vowed together that we would protect Mila at all costs and we will, I know you will. But I think you are the only one who can kill Yariel, you might have to kill your own father too”

I stare down at my own hands; I cannot believe she wants me to kill my own father. But I would gladly kill Yariel, he has caused so much grieve for everyone from our town, my family, my gransdmother's coven and even my sister. I look back at her “Do you think anyone else was involved in the whole matter?”

She nods her head “Yeah I do, Gerald most definitely, he would follow your father everywhere when he was a child, he would do anything for him. I also believe Barry the Bear shifter too he has had it in for wolves especially wolf packs, he never liked Mila, he only pretended to be nice when she was there but I could see the hate every time he was around or near her.

I take in everything she had said while she still holds my hands together in hers.

“How do I kill Yariel?” I ask finally.

She takes one her hands and places it under my chin to move it for me to look straight at her “You use everything you got, you have more magic than he has. You are one strong witch.”

“I believe he is using someone’s blood to gain more magic but he needs more” she says “You will need to kill him and if your father gets in the way, you need to be willing to take him out too.”

I nod. She looks towards my door and smiles “I think your mate is back dear.”

She gets up and I smile at her “During the war, I will be with all the women and children in the bunker as my magic is not like it used to be back in the day” I nod and get up, I place a kiss on her cheek. Her eyes shine “I will see myself out and Em” she looks up with a wicked grin on her face “Your mate wants to mate and mark you, wait till after the war as we need your magic to survive and then afterwards he is all yours.”

I giggle “I will tell him” I say and open the door to find Dane standing outside with a smile on his face.

He smiles “All done, everything ok?” He says looks at me, by god he is handsome.

“Yes everything is ok but young wolf, keep the marking and mating till after the war as we need her magic to survive this war” I blush hard at hearing her voice as she leaves, I know she's grinning knowing full well that she just embarrassed me in front of my mate.

I open my door wider for Dane to come in. He follows me inside and closes the door.

“Can you tell me what she told you?” he asks.

I nod and explain in great detail of the story about my father and Yariel, details of what I have to do. After I explained everything, he stares at me with wide eyes, stunned “How do you feel if you have to kill your own father?” He asks me suddenly.

I sit next to him and stare at the floor.

“I have to.......I have to for Mila, for all of us. My father caused so much pain for everyone, my grandmother's and his own covens destruction, torturing Mila, taking away every single memories that I had of what he did to her, me and now he is going to do it all over again” I say “Can I ask you a favor?”

“Anything my love” he says taking my hand in his “I will do anything you want and I will stand by you in whatever happens.”

I look up at him and smile “That’s good to hear, I want you near or close to me when I kill Yariel and also my father.”

He nods and grins “So after the war, I can have you as my mate.”

I laugh and smile “Once the war is over, I will be all yours.”

I lean into him and place my other hand on his cheek, moving his lips closer to mine and I kiss him passionately.

After the short loving kiss, he pulls me closer to him and I place my head on his shoulder “You are amazing Emily, we are all grateful to have you here in our pack but one thing I am damn so happy about is having you as my mate, you are my true mate.”

I sigh and close my eyes.

I pray that I can find the strength to kill Yariel and possibly my father; I also pray for Mila’s safe return as well, I just hope she can forgive me for what has happened to her and Sapphire.