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CHAPTER TWENTY SIX
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The Rogue's Desire CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN
PATRICKThe sun rises on the execution day.My stomach is a ball of knots.I have barely slept.I don't want to witness the execution. Even if she is just a sorceress, she looks like my mate. My love. My Rylie.But I must prove that I'm strong enough to overcome this.I can’t lead otherwise.There's a knock at the door.It's Robin.He pokes his head around. "Ah. You're awake. Good."He seems disconcertingly chipper."Shall we go?" he finishes.We head down to the dungeons.The guard unlocks the door.The room is dark.The cold stone walls make me shiver.I have a feeling I'm not going to like this.I move forward into the gloom.Now I can see her.My breath catches in my throat.She is sitting on the ground, leaning against the wall in her human form. Her hands are bound in silver ropes. Her eyes are downcast.She's been crying.I feel my heart wrenching in my chest.Robin takes a few steps towards her.The sorceress whimpers.She looks so much like Rylie.H
The Rogue's Desire CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT
RYLIEPatrick begins to untie the silver ropes around my wrists.I feel a wave of relief just being near him."Rylie," he mutters, his voice full of emotion."Patrick," I whisper.I can't believe it.Is this really happening?I'm so happy."You're okay now," he says. "I'm here. I won't leave you."The burning silver ropes loosen, and I fall forward into his arms.Patrick pulls me in close to him. He crushes his lips against mine.It's like fireworks are going off in my body.It feels like a million years of separation have been overcome, at last."Rylie, my beautiful Rylie, I thought I'd never see you again," he whispers.I cling onto him. I can't believe that Patrick is real. That he's really here in front of me. I can't believe he loves me and has come to save me."I love you," I say. "I love you so much.""I love you more than life itself," he replies.I pull back with a sudden memory. "The letter! The things I said. Patrick, that wasn't me."He shakes his head.
The Rogue's Desire CHAPTER TWENTY NINE
PATRICKMy heart is racing.Rylie is being so brave.I'm standing here watching her, thinking, this is the girl who I love.She is fierce. She knows what needs to be done, and she is doing it.One rogue is arguing with her, complaining that she is the one who killed his girlfriend. But Rylie is calm and collected in the face of his anger."I'm sorry," she says. "And I know it doesn't make up for it, but I'm going to do everything in my power to make sure that you and the rest of the rogues are safe. I'm going to protect you.""I don't trust you!" he shouts. "And I don't trust him," he points at me, "either."And Rylie says, "I know. But we need to work together. We need to stand together. And we need to fight back."She is a natural leader and doing a wonderful job as our luna. I have never been so proud. I feel like I can do anything with her at my side. Even defeat Hunter's army.Rylie, Robin and I get the rogues organized."Are you ready?" she asks.The atmosphere
The Rogue's Desire ONE
The pack house is a mess, but it would have to wait for now. I am already running late for patrol and I can’t afford another mark against my name. Not if I want to keep my title of gamma. I grab my satchel and check I’ve at least got a protein bar to have for a snack when the door slams shut behind me. “Rylie.” My whole body can’t decide whether to freeze or melt at the sound of my name on his lips. “Hunter,” I reply, rolling my eyes as I turn around to face my alpha. I let my gaze roam up his broad chest until our eyes lock, and every ounce of reasoning leaves my mind as I lose myself in the icy-blue eyes of the alpha. A smirk haunts his lips, a hint of a shadow covering his hard jaw. In two strides he stands before me. I barely reach his shoulder, but I refuse to let him intimidate me. One of us has to keep an ounce of self-control. “You seem tense, Rylie,” Hunter comments. “I’m late for patrol,” I mutter, scanning the empty pack house around me. Everyone else
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My elbow was instantly in the rogue’s ribs and he doubles over, coughing. “Get the others!” I order Val as I take another swing at the fallen male on the ground – smashing the base of my gun into his head and knocking him out cold. “You’ve picked the wrong day to mess with me,” I growl under my breath as I shoulder my gun and aim for the shelter of the trees.“Rylie, on your left!” I hear Val shout.I duck, spin on my heels and fire off to my left and the rogue is down in an instant. I can’t help but smile to myself. “Val, we need to move out!” I yell, climbing to my feet and breaking into a run.I’m surrounded in an instant, a rogue on either side of me. I can’t see Val in my peripheral vision, but pray she’s following behind me. I go to aim to my right, the rogue’s gun instantly mirroring mine. But instead of pulling the trigger, I duck and the bullet meant for my chest embeds itself in the rogue to my left. The other is down before it has a chance to realise its mistake.
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The moans of pain grow louder the deeper into the forest I travel. They say you know when one of your own is hurt. It’s like their pain is your pain. You feel it in your veins, with each beat of your heart.And it hurts like hell. My heart feels as if it’s being pulled from my chest, my lungs burning with each breath I take. But I know I am getting closer. The trees envelope me in their canopy overhead, and the sky is starting to grow dark. But nothing will make me turn back and head for home. Not when one of my own is in pain and needs my help. I could never live with the guilt if I left them out here to die. But the air is growing cold. I shiver, goosebumps littering my flesh. I’m not sure what I plan to do when I find whoever is injured. With nothing but a knife and my bow, I’m almost as helpless, but I guess I’ll cross that bridge when I get to it. I cannot be the one to bring death to the pack for my own recklessness. We knew the threat of the rogues was in the
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My mind spins with conflicting feelings.A rush of love.A confusion.It conflicts with my sense of duty to protect the pack.How can a rogue be my mate?I lower my bow, the arrow slipping from my fingers. It falls with a thud on the carpet of grass and dew. I know I can’t harm him.I don’t know how to balance my own feelings with what I know to be true. I don’t know how to make the world stop spinning. “Who are you?” I ask.He says nothing."Who are you?" I demand again.He lowers his bloody hands. The wound in his arm is still bleeding freely.Then he takes a step forward.My breath catches.He takes another step. Then another.With trembling hands, I place the arrow back in my quiver. I know as he gets closer that I won’t be able to stop myself from reaching for him.He can’t be my mate. There must be some kind of mistake.He stops a foot away from me.Tall. Broad shoulders.Handsome beyond all definition of the word.He stares down at me. His eyes rove over my
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I am frozen to the spot.I try to swallow, but I can’t.I stand there, my throat dry and my breath coming in short bursts.I look away from her, to the trees.I look for the rogue.But I don’t see him.My whole body is tensed up, ready for the attack to come."I should kill you," Val says.Her voice cracks.She is shaking."I know," I reply.I can feel my pulse pounding in my ears.I am rooted to the spot.Val pulls back the bowstring.But she is not going to do it.I know she is not.From the quiver in her voice and the shaking of her body, I can tell the last thing she wants to do is kill me.Without a second thought, I reach for my own bow and arrow.I train my arrow on her.Deadlock.We both stand there, bows trained on each other."Riley," she gasps."Let's not do anything hasty," I say.We both stand there, our bows still pointing at each other, our eyes locked.It's the first time we’ve pulled our bows on each other and it makes me feel sick.I can see t
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