UnTamed [Book 3]

We Had A Deal

Game of Thrones is seriously screwing me up.  I'm waiting so impatiently for the next two episodes... okay, enjoy :)

Chapter Quote:

"The thing about love is that you never truly know the person that you're with until you see them wrestle their demons in broad daylight."

~Unknown

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Chapter 26: We Had a Deal 

Luke 

For the next seven hours, sleep wouldn't come easily.  If he tried, all Luke saw was Ryan's dead body and all he heard was the sound of his sword running through the guy.  If he had to go back in time to that moment, he wouldn't change the outcome.  Bryn's life came first over everything.  Luke couldn't lose her again.  The first time it happened, there was motivation to keep him distracted.  But if he lost her a second time, Luke feared for his sanity.

So, instead of sleeping, Luke sat outside Bryn's room, waiting to hear how she was.

"Luke?  May I speak to you?" Hallie asked softly.  He looked up at her.  She was standing in the doorway of Bryn's room.

"How is she doing?" He replied, standing up.

"Still asleep, but she woke up briefly.  Checked to make sure you and her brothers were safe then crashed again.  Ryan must've hurt her before you or the twins saw her.  She got stabbed in the leg."

"What?!  She'll live though right?"

"Definitely.  This isn't the worst she's faced, and by far not the worst she's going to face.  Bryn knows that too."

"What is it she's going to face?  You act as if you know what it is.  Everyone here seems to know something I don't.  What is it?" Luke demanded exhaustedly.

"I'm not at liberty to say.  If you want to find out, you have to ask her.  She'll tell you.  Not willingly, but she will.  You're her... you're her kryptonite."

"I don't want to be her kryptonite!  I don't want to be the reason she gets herself killed!" he hissed.

"Luke, I didn't come out here to make you more upset than you already are.  I came to see how you were doing.  Bradley told me what you did to Ryan," Hallie said.  At the mention of the guy, Luke shut down.  She picked up on it instantly. "I've never killed someone so I have no idea how you're feeling but what you did, you destroyed Hannah's top general.  You destroyed one of her strongest military leaders.  You killed the guy that has tormented Bryn for the past year.  You killed the guy that was about to kill the girl you love.  Ryan was not a good person, and even if he survived the war, he would continue killing demigods that supported the gods.  Do not let the darkness of this eat at you.  I don't know you well Luke, but I know you have this light in you and with all this darkness going on around you what with the end of the world and the curse and now you killing Ryan, I can tell you're letting the darkness consume you, you're letting it eat the light in you away.  You have made it this far with what's been thrown at you so fight back Luke.  Fight back."

"I'm trying Hallie.  I'm not doing a good job of it though," Luke confessed.

She gave him a sympathetic smile. "I know you are.  That's who you are.  But you need someone who wants to save that light in you.  I think you know who I'm talking about.  I'll see you later.  Go in and see her." Hallie patted him on the shoulder and disappeared down the hallway.  Luke stood in his spot for a good minute, letting her words sink in.

Taking a deep breath, Luke poked his head into Bryn's room.  Prerana, Ana, and Vanessa were sitting around her bed.  When they heard him come in, they all stood up.