Protected by the Last Kitsune

Didn’t see that coming.

I am sitting in the throne room that is also used as the king's office, Kayleigh is laying on the floor next to me I reach down petting her, “I don’t know if I will make it out of this alive, I know it would hurt Harley to lose his mate, I just hope he will forgive me and move on.” Kayleigh looks up at me with a worried look “I haven't felt right for the last 2 days. I don’t have the energy to fight for too long. I know I will meet my end tonight, but I will take that bastard with me when I leave this world.” Kayleigh lets out a soft whine before she whips her head to the doors standing on all fours in a defensive stance, I smirk “So, it begins” I stand up walking around the desk leaning against it waiting for him to show himself, I can hear them tearing through the castle now.

The doors burst open as he saunters in like a proud peacock I swear if he had feathers they would be on full display.

“I came to give my condolences for your family, it's a shame really, ” he says with a smirk as he continues to saunters closer.

“ Like you give a s**t about my family” I spit out with venom.

“ You're not surprised to see me, what a shame I was hoping to surprise you with my visit. How did you know?”

“Know what that you were still alive? Or that it has been you trying to kill me and my family? or is there something else I am missing?”

“ Well, it doesn't matter really, after all soon you will be with your beloved queen and your children soon enough.” As soon as he finished his words he pulled out a gun pulling the trigger.

I phase-out of the way behind him, The bullet hitting the back of the chair Kayleigh runs out to help with the fight breaking out all over the place.

“Well, here is a surprise for you, I am not who you think I am though, my acting is better than I thought.”

He swings his body around the vision of his shocked features clear in my vew before I grab the gun out of his hand turning it to ash. The heat from the fire within, then punching him in his stunned looking face with the still heated fist. His shock doesn’t last long and he rolls away from me.

“Who are you?” he demanded as he stood up circling me, rage seeping through his movements.

“Oh, but you know very well who I am, the look on your face only moments ago shows true, so tell me Matthew, WHO AM I?? What is the name you will be screaming as you descend into hell?”

“The Shadow”

I smile at him as I watch pure fear hit his features. “I would love to play with you, sadly I am just not in the mood for it. 9 shadows fan out from behind me as they fly past me and right into Matthew, turning solid as they enter his body, holding him in place. All 9 except for one, one is frozen in front of his face as I speak to him.

“I have been sent here Matthew to punish you for everything you have done and will do, normally I would take pleasure in punishing you, but I am changing my ways, I no longer wish to be who I once was, I want to live in peace and love, not blood and shadows. So tonight you get a quick death.” before I was able to make the next move I was attacked from behind, I am not sure how I didn’t scene in pending danger sneaking up behind me, but I am thrown to the ground before I hit I let the last tail go drilling into Matthews' head, blowing out his brains through the back of his skull as it hit with much more force than I had intended, but hey when you're being attacked you lose focus even if for a second. The new wolf bit into my shoulder, taking my arm with it as it hit the floor, I scream out in pain, my blood is spilling all around the floor as I look up and see the one person I didn’t expect to see, Teala’s wolf standing there with my arm in her jaws, I watch as my arm falls to the ground. She returns to human form with the look of disdain and discus, twisting her once beautiful features.

“What are you doing Teala?” I ask in pure hurt and confusion, for once I was afraid I didn't want to die anymore I wanted to live.

“ I know Harley is made for you, but I fell in love with him the first night we met at your apartment, watching him always looking at you, pining after you like a lovesick pup. What do you have that I do not? I never wanted anything until I met Harley. He was the only thing I have ever truly wanted. Mates are very rare in the Royal blood so we choose our mates, but I can't have him as long as you are here. I am sorry Lita I love you, but you need to die now. I am better for him anyway I can give him what he needs.”

I was frozen by the betrayal I couldn’t move this moment didn’t feel real, my only best friend was going to kill me, the thought was sinking as she jumped on me and started beating my head off the floor between the blood loss and the relentless beating from Teala I finally succumbed to the darkness that was calling for me, before my eyes closed for good I watched as Kayleigh came up behind Teals taking her head clean off, before lying next to me with her head on my chest, whining for the life she was watching fade out.

Harleys' pov.

When I finally made it to the throne room, there were 3 bodies on the floor, one decapitated, one with holes all over his body than there in the middle was Lita her friendly wolf Kayleigh lay atop of her whining, she was missing and arm blood was also pooling around her head what the f**k happened here? I asked as I noticed the princess's head lying on the floor looking up at me. The anger just raged through my body, I walked closer to Lita thinking she was dead, I was a mix of emotions, Angry that she had killed the princess, sad that she was gone but relieved the monster was dead. Gunner was losing his s**t in my head, whining so loud for his dead mate, the very last of her kind.

I turn to walk away when I hear a gasping sound just as I am about to turn around the guards and the king rush in taking in the scene before taking Lita away. She is still alive? How the blood loss alone should have ended her. Now I am stuck I can't get away from her, If I reject her I lose Gunner what the f**k am I going to do?

Weeks have passed Lita is still in the hospital in a coma no one is allowed in not even the Queen and King only the nurses and doctors are allowed in, they give hourly updates to the royals on her condition, the latest one being her vitals is getting stronger they are expecting her to wake up any day. I am pacing in my room, No, No this can’t happen, I can’t be stuck with that monster I need to do something. Then it hit me, I knew what I had to do.

I walked to the hospital waiting in the shadows for my chance. When the coast was clear, I snuck into her room, I took a syringe from the drawer, removing it from the wrapper taking the casing off the needle and pulling back the plunger allowing it to fill with air, I walked over to her placing the needle on her neck pushing into her jugular than pushing all the air into her vein kissing her softly on the lips as a goodbye. I walked out of the room and back into the shadows waiting. Soon a drill sounded alerting all staff of the distress of Lita in her room, everyone rushed passed, I watched from the door as they did everything they could. But to no avail, she was gone. As they shut off the monitor and cleared the room that is when I heard it, I grabbed the arm of the last nurse leaving. “Wait, do you hear that? There is still a faint heartbeat.” but then as the nurse looked up to me with sadness and a tear falling from her eyes, she said, “that was the last beat her baby's heart will ever take, they are now both gone, I am so sorry for your loss sir.” Those were the last words that were said as I realized what I had done. As I stood there shocked a woman I have never met before walked passed me. And went right to Lita room placing her head on Lita’s stomach as she sat in a chair next to her. Tears flowing freely, I walked over to her.

“How do you know Lita?”

“She saved me from a life of hell, I am Kayleigh”

I looked at her shocked. “How is it possible? A wolf cannot become human once taken from the host. So how?”

She looked up at me with her tear-soaked face as she wiped them away with her sleeve.

“She promised me she would find me a new host. One worthy of me, if the witch could take me out she could also learn to put me back in, that was her promise to me, and even in death, she kept her promise. I just wish she had a chance to do what she dreamed of.”

I scoffed at her words, “ what would that be? Take over the world? Bathe in a pool of blood? Kill everything in her path?”

With my hurtful words, she stood up, looking me deep into my eyes as she yelled her next words.

“She was done with the line of work she was in, she did what she did because she felt she needed to, to rid the world of the monsters that are out there she to had to become one, her life being hell, nothing but pain and misery, she kept her heart and her love intact no matter what she had been through, in hopes that one day she too could have a life filled with love and happiness. Once she found you and realized she was pregnant, she vowed her life of violence was over. She would give her pup the life she never had. But now she will never have the chance. All she wanted to do was to make the world a better place. Had you not pushed her away and paid attention to your mate, you would know nothing meant more to her than you. You where her life, even when you pushed away, she fought passed the pain thinking it was just the stress of this upcoming war. But even then she knew this would be her last. I think she knew her life would be ending sooner than later...

I had not noticed the tear slipping free once she finished what she wanted to say, I never realized that Gunner had escaped his cage to not only see his mate dead but to also learn so was his pup, it wasn’t till I hit the floor in the worst pain I had ever felt surged through my body, nurses surrounded me bringing into a room as I screamed out in pain. “What is happening to me?” the doctor looks at me as he says your wolf is dead. You are now human if you live that is. He then bent down to my ear so I could hear him, I watched you on the Camera in her room, you killed your mate and child, I will not give you anything for the pain, and I hope the goddess lets you suffer before you die with your wolf and burn in hell if by chance you live through this. I will make it my mission in life to make you pay for what you have done with the shadow... By the way, my name is Dr, Collen…. As his words sunk in I realized who he was, he was the man I never met him was Lita’s Hander it was then that everything passed before me, the huge mistake I made, the regret, the loss, the love I felt but ignored all of it hit me like a ton of bricks, images of what life could have been if I had just given her a chance if I had just trusted her and loved her like I should of from the start. I prayed that the goddess would just take me. But now my suffering was truly about to begin. I was discharged two days later, I felt the shadows following me, waiting for their moment to strike.

As the years went by, my paranoia got the best of me, I spent my life hiding underground, drunk swiping at every shadow I saw, the madness settling deep within, till one night the shadows finally came, forcing me to watch the death of my mate and child over and over and over the action of my own that cost me everything that I had and ever wanted, a loving family of my own. A life of happiness and love. There is no greater torture than to be given your deepest desire just to have it get ripped away over and over in so many different ways.