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Chapter 28 - All Yours

"Danny..." I started but didn't know what to say at all. I felt so conflicted. But I thought back to what Thalia said and I knew she was right. She was always right. My parents would want me to be happy and killing werewolves, killing Danny wouldn't be the way.

But what would make me happy? If I didn't avenge my family's murder, then what else was there that would bring me some sort of happiness? I knew killing werewolves really wouldn't. It took me a while to finally come to terms with that. But if not that, then what?

I suddenly turned around and looked at Danny. I took a good look at him, taking in his messy brown hair, his brown-green eyes, his deep dimples that showed up even when he wasn't smiling. I looked at this werewolf who was standing right in front of me, staring back at me with sadness, hurt and longing in his eyes. And that is when I realized something.

I didn't like seeing the hurt look on his face. I didn't like seeing him sad like this. I didn't like seeing him being attacked by rogues. I didn't like seeing him in any kind of pain. I wanted to see him happy. Seeing him happy would make me happy. Not killing werewolves, not living in anger and sadness like this, not by trying to push Danny away.

"If you want to leave, you can Alina. I'm not going to stop you. If you don't want anything to do with me, then who am I to stop you." He said looking down in defeat. I didn't say anything as I watched him with conflicted emotions. He looked up and met my gaze with so much pain in his eyes, it hurt me to look at. "I'll take you down. I'll make sure no one hurts you. I'll make sure everyone knows I let you go." He said as he walked towards the door of his room, holding it open for me.

Without thinking I started walking out the door, hearing Danny following behind me. We then quietly made our way downstairs. I couldn't believe it. He was letting me go. I should have felt happy at how easy leaving was. But I wasn't. I felt... I didn't even know what I felt. The thought of leaving brought me so much despair.

We were outside by now and had passed by the guards. We were nearing the gates and I didn't like how I was feeling. Soon enough though, we were at the gates and we both stopped walking. Danny turned to look at me, sending me one last look of defeat before he turned around towards the palace, leaving me standing at the gate. I watched his back, his shoulders slumped down as he walked away. I felt this tight constricted feeling in my chest as I watched him.

I then looked past the gate and recalled the last time I ran away. Lastly I looked at the ground just when I heard laughter. I looked to my left and found Zander carrying Rosie out into the gardens while she laughed at something. "Put me down Zander, I'm not made of glass. I'm not going to break!" She exclaimed in giggles. Zander playfully glared down at her for ordering him, before breaking out into a grin.

"You do know I'm just using your pregnancy as an excuse so I can hold you close to me all day long." Zander said before leaning down and pressing playful pecks all over her face while she giggled some more.

My heart felt even heavier as I watched them too. They looked so happy together. They were so cute together and things just seemed to work out so well for them in the end. I remember hearing all those stories about how horribly Zander used to treat her that it's so shocking to see Zander act so playful and loving with her like this. From what I heard, Zander didn't like her at first because he hated humans. But he got over that and accepted her.

That reminded me greatly of my situation with Danny. And that's when I realized, I couldn't leave. Danny was what I needed. I immediately started running back towards the castle. I pushed past the guards ignoring when they started yelling at me. I didn't care, I needed to find Danny.