CHAPTER 6: The Law That Binds Rogues

***RENA***

I sat on my bed, thinking about earlier and how bad things must be getting for Blake, his brother seemed pretty pissed off, at him, and maybe me. I bite into my nails nervously, till I hurt my hand and start to bleed.

“Yeah, sucks to be wolfless, I can’t even heal a tiny nail-biting mishap!” I said to myself as I sighed hard. Frustrated and tired of it all, I decided to try my best to get it off my mind.

“You shouldn’t be the topic of every gossip on your first day awake here…” Simone said as she waltzed into the room like she owned the place, and maybe she did.

“I’m not.” I simply said, staring at the floor as different thoughts of what was going to happen to Blake amidst his angry brothers plagued my mind.

“You should take a walk outside and see for yourself,” then Simone stopped moving around doing whatever it was she had been doing.

“The alpha kings are the kindest and tightest of siblings and they’ve ruled in harmony, but since you came and latched onto Blake, it’s all been different,” she pointed out, but somehow, I felt I could catch a glint of jealousy in her voice.

“Is this about something else? Something you’re not letting me know?” I wasn’t going to be that girl who didn’t face her fears or that girl who was too calm to address issues the way they were.

“No!” She curtly replied, looking everywhere but at me.

I walked towards her with a subtle smile on my face, then I led her by the hand back to the bed I had been sitting on.

“Is everything alright?” I pressed, I knew she was kind, at least, she’s kind to me before, so there must be a reason for her to be on edge.

“I don’t know… It’s just, I got yelled at earlier,” she croaked, almost as though she’s going to cry any time soon.

I squeezed her hand reassuringly.

“Yelled at? By the alpha kings?” It felt like something Blake’s brothers could do.

“No… not them… the people from the pack…” she sniffs while I just or her back, trying to calm her down.

“The alpha kings are the best, they won’t even do anything to anyone, honestly, they can have their differences, but they’re not so bad…” She formed a weak smile, which I tried my best to return.

“But a rogue wolf has no home anywhere, and by law, that's who we are, we won’t be recognized here, and we can’t go back home either, it’s sad, isn’t it?”

For the first time, I thought about my home and how I had truly missed the place, but then, I couldn’t say much about how she felt here, since I barely knew anything about the people here.

“Of course you don’t have the experience and this is probably scaring you,” she patted my hand and I snapped back to reality, she must think I was silent cause this scared me.

“No, that’s not it, I was just lost thinking I can’t really relate to all of this cause I’ve not been out of the castle since I woke… and you whom I’ve met have been so kind to me.” I tried to reassure her and that seemed to do the trick.

“So how have you been surviving then? You seemed like the happiest person ever when we first met.” I couldn’t help but wonder and since I was also a rogue, it’s best I asked, I thought.

“Well, the alpha kings stand up for me when around, but when they’re not, it’s a different issue. I can’t really change what has been or who I am, but I believe my situation will be changed sometime soon enough, one day…” She sounded hopeful and I loved that for her.

“Our situation could be changed?”

“Of course, say you marry a man of high power or are mated to one and he decides to accept the mate bond and mark you, don’t you think you’ll be respected? As women, we have options by marriage, but the male runaways like us are lost forever…” her voice trailed off as she spoke the last part. She must feel sorry for the male rogues or maybe she knew one who was going through a lot right now.

“Then I'd better make sure Blake marries me…” I muttered to myself.

“Uh?”

“Nothing, I’m just wishing hard I end up with a high ranking mate…” I lied, but it wasn’t completely a lie, was it?

“So tell me, I know we’re not supposed to ask or question, but why were you found in such a luxurious dirty wedding dress?” She finally asked, I knew it must have weighed on her kind for a very long time.

Her curious eyes searched mine for an answer, but as a rich heiress that I was raised to be, I’ve always been taught not to wear my emotions on my face, so I knew she could never derive what I was thinking or how that question made me feel.

“It’s just one of those things, I’m not ready to speak of it just yet, but when I am, I promised you’d be the first person to find out…” I reassured her and thankfully, she didn’t press further, she nodded with a smile.

“I'd better get going now, that weird alpha king is to arrive today.”

“Weird alpha?” I questioned and she nodded.

“Some alpha Andrew or something…” I froze.

I had totally forgotten Andrew was to come to Silverstone, but then, why was he arriving today when the alphas of Silverstone had just given their go-ahead earlier, did he know I was hiding out here and had he been waiting for a go-ahead to come in?

Different thoughts plagued my mind and I began to hyperventilate.

“Hey? Rena? Are you okay?” Simone asked, but I couldn’t utter a word. I calmed myself down slowly and nodded at her.

“Oh cool, I should go now, or do you want to come along?” She asked.

I sat there wondering whether to face the people who were here to capture me or run to Blake and have me mark me right away.

“Do you have an idea where the alpha kings are?” I asked and she nodded.

“Come along, I’ll show you where before I go downstairs.” I didn’t argue or say a word, I just followed her closely.

Yeah, the right thing to do was to go make Blake mark me.