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The three of us eat and talk and I discover I don’t mind Becky all that much. She seems okay to me, and if she’s going to be with Levi, I have to get used to her being around.
We talk about a little of everything getting to know Becky better. We knew of her but not really anything about her. She seems nice enough.
“So, are you coming off your birth control?” Angel asks. I shake my head as I take a bite of my sandwich. “What? Why not?”
“Ry doesn’t want to have kids here.” I go on to tell them what he told me and how Jen’s death affected him when Becky chimes in.
“Is it bad I feel the same way? I never brought it up to my parents, but I don’t want my kids to live like this. I’m not saying Levi is a bad guy or anything like that, but wouldn’t it have been nice to choose who you wanted to be with?” she asks. I nod my head. I get it. I truly do. I wasn’t exactly sure what I was going to do if I hadn’t married Rylan. I’m not sure I could have forced myself to marry Jack.
“Silas is the same way. He said he’s talked to Ry about it, too. He said he feels like we’ve all been brainwashed here into believing what they tell us to believe and that there’s a whole world out there we don’t even know about,” Angel says. I didn’t know they talked about things like that. Ry has never said anything before now.
“Damn, that’s … wow. I didn’t know they felt that way,” I say as I pick up my drink.
“Would you leave it all behind?” I ask, looking between Angel and Becky. “If Levi and Silas left, would you go?” They share a look before Angel speaks.
“I don’t know what life would be like out there. Here, we have some kind of order, don’t we? We have rules we follow. What would it be like not to have rules to follow?” she asks. I see the intrigue in her eyes. She’s thinking about it.
“I would go,” Becky declares, pulling my attention to her.
“Really? Why?”
“I don’t want to think about my child being possibly murdered here. Would you go? If Rylan wanted to leave?”
“Yeah. I think I would follow Ry into the fucking depths of hell if that’s where he wanted to be.” Admitting that out loud causes a surge of pride inside of me. I would do it. I would follow Rylan anywhere he wanted to go. I would be anything he wanted me to be as long as he was by my side.
I reach up and rub my hand over my chest, where the brand sits under my shirt. We took the oath. Forever. And that’s exactly how long I want to have Rylan for. I know with love comes pain, and I wonder just how much more we can take.
I lay back on the couch and close my eyes, letting my thoughts run wild as I think about Rylan. I know what I said was true. And I know if it were the other way around, he would do the same for me.
What Rylan and I have can never be broken. It doesn’t matter how hard we try to fight it or each other. We’ve always belonged in each other’s lives, and we always will.
I rest my hand over the brand and smile. The reason for being branded doesn’t bother me as much as some of the others because I look at it a little differently than they do. They see it as a life sentence.
I see it as my connection to Ry. And that’s a connection that I never want to fade. I want to keep it forever because I know what I feel for him, and this is only the beginning.
Chapter 27
Rylan
We’re geared up and ready to go. I wasn’t going to wait around for the fucking Kings to have their meeting. No. That would take too long, and I don’t have the patience to wait. So, I’m taking matters into my own hands.
Brady isn’t home. He hasn’t been back home since he tried to shoot Syn at school. But I know where he is, thanks to Hunter. It’s good to have the Gods on your side at times, and this is one of them.
I crack my neck from side to side as we make our way through the trees. Brady has been staying at a small shack hidden by the trees the Gods used to use for torturing people.
We met up with Hunter and a few Gods before we came out here, and they were more than willing to help us with Brady. Now, we creep around the outside of the shack, ready to pounce. I can feel my rage filter through my blood, charging me.
Hunter motions toward the back, and I nod as he moves in that direction. Silas, me, and a few Gods move around to the front. We have the place surrounded. He won’t be able to escape this time.
I raise my hand in a countdown before I kick the front door open. We move in quickly and there he is. He raises his head just as we fly into the room. He has nowhere to go. He stands to his feet and holds his hands in the air while we surround him.
“What the fuck is this?” he yells.
“This is your death,” I tell him. I reach up and pull the mask off my face, revealing who I am.
“You can’t do this, Rylan. It’s against the rules!” He yells, but I see the smile on his face. He thinks I give a shit about the rules after what he did.
“You put your hands on something that belongs to me.”
