Always Mine

Always Mine is told in the first person by a young member of a group with a bitter grudge against its enemies. Everything went wrong the day one of those enemies violated one of their own. Since then the group has been stuck waiting, with no move to make, until Anthony reaches his limit and demands revenge. The next generation, who are made to attend school with the enemy's children, want it too, and they set out to kill them all as payback. Nobody expects the cost.

The narrator believed they were doing the right thing but failed, and now can only wait and hope, knowing Daisy could be lost. The narrator has loved her since first seeing her as a dirty, neglected, unloved girl, and would die or kill for her. The narrator once thought their father weak, but did not understand what had been set in motion. The Skulls always had a reason for what they did, and now saving them has become a race. Old wrongs must be put right and the truth must come out.

With Daisy's life hanging in the balance, the narrator is ready to let the beast loose, because a life without her is no life at all. She keeps the narrator in check, and Daisy has always belonged to the narrator just as the narrator belongs to her.