The Rose

Chapter 26: Together again

Draco's POV

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I stormed through past the guards and my parents straight towards Roselyn. I could hear her heart beat, faint but beating, in my ears. Silver was holding her hand while she slept. She stood smiling. "Is she?"

"No still clean. Just fine, tried and bruised in places I do not wish to think about. However she is fine." Silver said rubbing my arm reassuringly. "She is just fine."

I sat beside her bed, her tiny frame barely moving as she breathed. I brushed her red hair away from her face, a slight smile on her lips. I kissed up and down her face. Mine, she is mine.

I felt Silver watching me, question in her eyes. "Yes."

"What?" She asked her eyes growing wide.

"He is dead, should be at least. I stabbed him, brutal. He lost an eye too." I said, a smirk hinted at her lips. I saw Rose adjust in her sleep. I looked to Silver, she cocked her head. "Is she going to be okay?" I asked.

I saw her face flush. "Yes, you care for her. She confides in you, and she has me." She replied. "She won't have to do what I did."

I looked at her, my blood boiling. "What do you mean by that?" I felt my nails lodge into my palm.

"I..was raped by the pack." She whispered.

"What?" I asked, I heard her but I wanted to hear it again.

"The pack..my brother and father stripped me of my clothes and tossed me to them. Let them do anything they wanted with me when I was kicked out for disobeying." She replied tears prickling at her eyes. I stalked towards her and opened my arms. She raced to hug me. I held her carefully.

"It's alright don't worry. I will protect you."

Silver looked to Rose. "You are so lucky." She finally said after a few minutes of silence. "She's beautiful and loves you so much."

I smiled, realizing that I had no idea what gender she liked. Most wolves were straight but after what the pack did to her I can see her being either asexual or lesbian. He held her arms in my hands and nodded. "Thank you Silver. For bringing her this far."

"I see you have questions sire." She said with a smirk, I gulped would this be offensive.

"Do you like men or women?" I finally said, she sat dumbfounded at the questions. She than began to laugh.

"Neither, after that night sex was out the window." She said. I saw her shutter. "They both..both men and women.." her eyes closed and I pulled her back into a hug. "It was horrible."

I gulped, even after watching what my Roselyn endured I still couldn't fathom what she went through. I held her tightly. "I am so sorry."

She frowned and I saw the tears roll down her cheeks. "Don't worry, I'm sorry I didn't know."

"You don't need to worry or apologize I'm sorry I.." she just held me tightly.

"Shh Silver, after the loyalty you have shown the past while you will become my second in command. Not my wife but my most trust companion. Silver the werewolf guard of the vampiric kingdom."

I saw her smile grow wide, her canines protruding out. I chuckled. "I would love that."

"Good." I smiled wide. Rose began to stir and we both ran to her side. I was on her left and Silver on her right. She sat up quickly, I heard her yelp and felt a pain in my left thigh. I realized her bond to me was growing closer. Her pain was becoming my own. "Hey hey Rose calm down baby girl." I said kissing her forehead.

She smiled throwing her arms around my neck. I kissed her lovingly. "You you're safe." She said pulling away from me, the bite mark from Graham was scabbing over. I growled wishing it was my bite not his. She noticed the blood and her eyes went wide.

"He cannot hurt you any more." I said caressing her. I heard her in her mind ask me if he was gone for good. "I stabbed him, if he is alive we should learn in the future. If we hear of his death, he is dead for good."

She nodded happily, Silver kissed her forehead and I her lips. She blushed at my actions and hugged Silver tight. "I have offered Silver a position as our royal guard. Your hand maiden if you wish, but I know that she will do well in a high position."

She nodded smiling. "She deserves the best. She brought me her, she didn't stop not until we made it to your mother and father. Past the guards too." She smiled, her eye lids drooping, I could tell she was exhausted.

I looked to Silver. "Is this true?"

"Yes, my future king. Your father.. he offered me queen if you did not make it. But I knew you would. I knew you would make it."

I heard her say it, but my brain could not comprehend the words. My father offered the spawn of the man who tried to rape my mother a spot as queen? The man who offered her this position was not the king and father I knew. He was different and willing to allow a werewolf place as queen.

But why?

What did I not know or understand.

I nodded at her, I couldn't think of anything to say.

Which never happened.

Rose fell asleep again after drinking some water and eating a little bit of food. I needed to get something to eat as well but knew that my place was next to her, guarding her.

The wolves would be after me, after they learned of what I did. If they have even found him yet. I doubt it, the screams he made could have been mine, they all knew I was there. I shuttered at the idea of me being killed and my Rose being used as a sex slave for Graham.

I shook my head in anger at the idea by went back to watching her. Silver had gone to get us food returning with meats for the two of us and blood for me. Roselyn slept peacefully only muttering once in a while, Silver chuckled at her babble. I kissed her forehead lovingly. Silver smiled watching us, I couldn't help but be thankful for this women who saved my girl.

I hugged them both carefully. They were mine and we together would bring down the wolves.

I had started with Graham, and we would end it all with his father.