Chapter 121: The Ginger Girl, Piper Pryde
I gawk at the girl with the wavy ginger hair. She stands at around 5ft 11inches. Her longs legs are insinuated by the long jacket she wears around her waist. On her back I can see a small sword hang them. I bet she’s killed many people with that sword, probably killed the pack member with it.
Behind me I feel someone standing behind me, It’s Alexander. I’ve been focusing most of my attention on the girl and I didn’t even notice his presence. His shaky hand squeezes on the side of my waist, it’s a warning. Telling me to stay calm, and don’t do anything irrational.
“What do you want Piper.” Alexander finally says. He looks as if he would leap over me and strange her. Besides Katherine Constantine, this is the second daughter of Sylo I’ve ever met. They are very intimidating women; I would hate to meet their ring leader Sylo Sniper.
“Oh, don’t be scared Sascha and Sascha’s mate. I just wanted to come down and pay my respects to your fallen soldier.” A playful smile comes on her face, I can hear the mocking in her voice. Her tongue scrapes over her perfect sharpens teeth.
“The fallen solider that you killed.” Alexander sneers.
She lets out a shocking gasp. Her hand clutches her imaginary pearls. “How dare you accuse me of something I did. I’m applaud, is this how you treat a lady.”
“Your so lady, just a psycho asking to be killed.”
“Like you killed Sasha.” She takes only three steps and is suddenly in front of us. Without injuring Alexander, she snatches me up. That sword that was once around her back is now grazing against the front of neck. Her other arm wraps around my waist, holding me captive in her arms. Even if I wanted to escape, I would most likely die.
“Let me go!” I scream at her, trashing under her grip. She lets out a deep chuckle that rumples her chest and vibrates my back.
“Ah you got you a good one here Sascha. She’s. . .feisty I’ve always liked them feisty.” Across the yard I see Alexander, and look of horror is on his face.
“Let her go Piper.”
“Mhm. . .but I don’t Wanna. And she looks like a screamer, are you a screamer little girl.”
“PIPER!” He screams.
“SASCHA!” Piper screams back even louder. Her knife that was once against my neck is now plunged in Alexander’s forearm. He groans out in pain as he cowers over on the ground. Dark crimson blood drags down his arm and onto the green grass.
“What the hell is wrong with you, leave him alone.” I try to get out of her grip to help Alexander, but I fail tremendously.
“But I don’t want to, I’m having fun. If you move around one more time, you’ll be stabbed next. Now watch this.” Another knife purposely slips from her hand and landed in his other arm; a painful groan escapes his lips. His eyes look to mine, pleading with me for the pain to stop.
I start to get angry; my blood starts to feel hot like a sauna. Breath plunges in and out of me as I try to control it. All I see is someone hurting Alexander, my mate. The person I’m going to spend the rest of my life with.
“Leave him alone, or else.” Piper laughs yet again.
“Quinneth stay out of this.” Alexander manages to muster out. Using all his energy to say that one line.
“No Alexander. She’s hurting you I can’t let that happen.” My anger surges out. Around us I unconsciously create a ring of fire around me and Piper. The flames are a bright red and dark orange, the heat starts to make both of us sweat.
“What the hell.” Piper whispers under her breath, but I’m able to hear it.
“If you don’t stop hurting Alexander and let me, go. I will kill the both of us.” I scream over the fire; I make the fire even bigger and grander.
“Quinneth don’t do this!” Alexander is now on his feet trying to come over to us.
“I don’t want to do this, but Piper is pushing me. It’s up to her.” I can feel her working it out in her brain, trying to figure out what exactly to do.
“Fine- fine.” She throws me on the ground, I stop the fire instantly. Leaving her in the spot she was before I rush over to Alexander.
“Where did you learn to do that?” He groans out as I try to remove the knifes from his arms.
“Katana taught me, that’s not Important.” Since the kidnapping, Katana has been coming over and teaching me how to control it. When the fire started ranging, I went a little overboard but I needed to show Piper how serious I was. Of course, I wasn’t going to kill her or me, but she doesn’t need to know that.
“Pull them out Quinn.”
“What, are you sure. They look pretty stuck in there.” My finger trails over the silver knifes. “Ok, 1. . .2. . .3!” I yank both the knifes out at one time. Saliva starts to ooze out of his mouth as he bites his tongue. “Are you ok?”
“Oh, I don’t know there was two knifes stuck in my arm.” I give him a scolding look.
“Don’t be sassy, I saved your life.” Turning around I see Piper is looking down at us, analyzing how we interact with each other.
“Sasha said you had the powers of a Zastitnik, but I didn’t think you had anything like that. Amazing really.
“Just leave.” I groan out to her.
“Not before delivering a message. If you don’t turn yourself over, Quinneth, someone will die within the next 24 hrs.” After leaving the non-cryptic message she vanishes through the woods.
"How did you stop Piper?" Katana asked.
"I used my power. . .fire." A smile comes across her lips.
"Good job. You are not under any circumstances are going with them.” Katana said.
“I know. . .but what if they kill another person because of me. I-”. She stops me in mid-sentence.
“Trust me, she won’t. You had guards around your house, and everywhere you go. They won’t get anywhere near you. You are my mission, and I will not fail to protect you.” She seems so determined; it scares me but makes me feel protected. She’s been around the daughters of Sylo, and Piper Pryde most of the time. If she believes she won’t hurt anyone else, then I can live with that.
“Not to be. . .selfish or anything. But why are you so adamant on protecting me. It’s just we don’t really know each other, but yet you're willing to lay your life on the line for me. Does this have anything to do with Shilah, Sasha’s sister?” I see something in her eyes. . .something I'd never seen before. Nervousness.
“I’m just doing my duty, competing my mission. Just leave it alone.”
I scoot closer to her on my bed, “You can trust me Katana, I won’t tell anyone. Tell me, please.”
She lets out a breath, then tell me the story. “Year ago, when I stayed in Insofar, I was close with Tura. Tura was Yount’s wife, Queen of Insofar and Sasha’s step-mother. In a matter of time, she fell pregnant, she was so ecstatic and so was my uncle. On the other hand, not everyone was happy, Sasha’s mother, Stella resented Tura and her unborn child. Tura being pregnant meant that Sasha was no longer first in line, but second in line.”
“Sasha was second in line because she wasn’t the child of Yount’s mate.”
“Exactly. Once Tura started to wind down in her pregnancy, she started to become paranoid. One day I saw her in the library reading a book, then suddenly she started to freak out. They had to keep her trapped in the room, she wanted to harm the baby. She kept whispering of a danger, something that would kill her child.”
“Once she had the baby, I was commissioned to send the baby out of Insofar to a pack in Nygaard. At the time I didn’t know who the baby was, no one told me for my protection. It was my first mission, and I took it seriously. A few weeks after dropping her off at the pack, it was raided by rouges. Everyone their ended up dying.” From her telling me this story, I understand why she is so focused on saving me.
“That’s why you are determined to make sure I’m ok. Because you couldn’t protect her.”
“Yeah.” After that the conversation was laid to rest.
Gifts
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received Weekly Power Status
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