Alpha Asher by Jane
Chapter 212
Chapter 212
We left that day for the safe haven, not bothering to pack or say goodbye to our families.
It didn’t matter that I was on the verge of passing out, not when the place we promised would remain safe had been attacked. There was no more time to wait. I needed to use my magic to protect them, and I needed to do it now.
Asher gave me enough of his blood to keep me standing up right. The only pit stop we made before peeling out of town was to pick up Tristan and Giovanni. Now that the sun was finally setting, they could safely leave the house.
I cried out with relief when Giovanni passed two blood bags into my hands and quickly tore into them. It wasn’t nearly enough, but it would have to be.
We were just under a mile away and already I could tell something had happened. Smoke lingered in the air, crisp and heavy like someone had started a very large bonfire. Even coasting down the main road, the gouges in the forest were visible. Trees were knocked down and bushes trampled into the dirt. It looked like a pack of very large beasts had charged through at full force.
I wasn’t at all prepared for what I saw when we arrived.
There wasn’t a single part of me that thought the safe haven would survive an attack without any damage, but beyond all reasonable belief, I had clung to the hope that the damage would be minimal.
We rolled down the main road intersecting the town slowly, giving me plenty of time to scour every single shred of damage the witches had done.
From the number of houses that had scorch marks licking up the sides, it was clear Ember had been here.
So many of them were crumbling, halfway torn down with families hiding inside, clinging to the shadows as the last hints of sunlight faded.
It grew worse as we neared the center, so much worse.
Bodies were lined in neat rows, covered in white sheets stained grey with ash. There weren’t many, perhaps only a dozen, but it didn’t matter. Those twelve carried the same weight as a hundred as a thousand, would.
The sidewalks and street were streaked with black marks, kissed by Ember’s flame as she pillaged the town. Cars were turned over, some halfway crumpled and smoking. The stench of burnt motor oil hung in the air, mixing with the scent of death.
Tristan cursed, and Giovanni made a sound of agreement.
“Fuck, my mother and father are here.”
I craned my head to stare at him in the
back seat. If we weren’t surrounded by so much carnage and death, I might’ve laughed at how absurd he looked crammed in the backseat with Giovanni.
“Is that a bad thing?” I asked. Giovanni snorted. “If you think Tristan is unpleasant, wait until you meet his mother.”
I glanced at Tristan, waiting for him to snap or explode on Giovanni, but instead he actually nodded in agreement.
There was nothing to say that would ease their discomfort. In truth, I wasn’t too worried about Tristan’s family or what opinions his mother would have. Seeing what happened here with my own eyes, it outweighed everything else.
Asher’s hand grazed my own, his fingers sliding in between mine. I glanced away from the carnage and into his eyes, not realizing how close I was to plummeting until I felt his presence glide down the mate-bond and into my troubled mind.
‘It doesn’t matter how many times they destroy this place. We will rebuild.’ He promised, his eyes severe and set in stone.
More than anything, I wanted it to be enough, but it wasn’t.
slam of car doors. was quiet
curls flitted past as
launched herself into Giovanni’s arms. She tangled her fingers in his hair and let
Spence were the next to approach. I imagine we all had the same expression on our faces, grim
as a sort of Town Hall. Children clutching ash stained stuffed animals padded behind their mother’s and father’s, hiding
haven we’ve heard so much about?” A refined
between the two of
as a warning and
standing there, the woman with soft blonde hair and an upturned nose. She had a delicate
pumps. There wasn’t a single curl on her head that was out of place. Clearly she’d gotten here long after the fight had ended.
and disdain melting into one festering pool that I
the obliviousness
barely spared her
why don’t you show some goddamn respect
another, emotions impaled me in the chest. The longer I assessed the damages, the more I realized how long it would take to restore this
to rubble in the
us to live here, Tristan.” She scoffed; a delicate hand pressed against her bird chest. Her voice lowered to a whisper that wasn’t nearly quiet enough to be an actual whisper. “Think about your sister for
through mind-link, feeling him stiffen behind
woman said was meaningless, and empty words were not worth starting another
a man who had the same facial features as Tristan. His hair was much darker, but his deep-set eyes, angular nose, and pouty lips were identical. The little girl was the spitting image of Tristan’s mother, only
how his eyes flitted from person to person, he was observing everything carefully. They clung to my face the most, and I wondered if he was
here, and you didn’t have to come.
things she found unimportant, because she didn’t seem to notice the tension in the air or how
through over half of the houses
an observer to the damage and death the witches had caused, all with Tristan’s mother bleating in the background.
very safe, is it? What a pity. I was so hoping we could live here, but I won’t risk your sister’s life when it’s clear this place is undergoing attacks every other
but he wasn’t looking at her.
“Lucinda.” 1
man I had assumed was Tristan’s father approached. His hand was on his wife’s shoulder, but he wasn’t looking at her either.
to calm down. The shadows are reacting to
link, but it was faint, muffled by white noise
that I was paying more attention, it seemed darker than normal. Many of the streetlights were destroyed, but even the few that
a million little eyes hit
cranny, crawling over every piece of
the ground and circled around my feet,
her tongue is not one of them.” Tristan’s father said in a calm
scowled
on this place. No one cares about it more than we do. Seeing it like this is not easy for her.” Asher’s voice dropped low, and anyone with ears could
of ice. Her lips twisted and puckered, deepening the fine
then yelped and stumbled back when a few tendrils of shadow got too close for her liking. “Honestly, your father couldn’t control those things either. Disgusting, foul creatures-”
cracked as my head snapped
Alpha Asher by Jane Chapter 212
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