All Chapters of Rouges and Rebound: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

Cassandra’s POVI wake up the next day with a start, I had another night mare involving my parents. I tap my chest trying to calm my racing heart. It takes a while for me to remember where I am, beside me Lydia and Lia sleep soundly.I doubt I would be getting any sleep again so I make the wise decision of crawling out of the tent for fresh air. It is still dark outside and I am not what the time is but the air is cool and I am finally able to breathe again.I take a deep breath before I start moving, I let my feet lead me where they want to as I mull over the events of the past few days. Within the span of some weeks, my carefully crafted life of two years has been up turned. My hand reaches for my grandmother’s necklace on my neck, except it is not as comforting as it used to be. Now it is tainted with my guilt from what I did to Lydia, nothing I touch is safe. I wrap my arms around myself as the familiar piercing pain wraps itself around my heart.There is the sound of snapping sti

Cassandra’s POVAfter the long hours of planting, we all retire to the same place we had the bonfire for dinner. Gray and Ray disappear at some point while Lydia introduces me to the few people she met; they are friendly people but want I really want to do is go back to the tent where I can be left alone. My social skills were never any good before I left the pack.“Hiding in a corner again, are we?” I look up to see Gerta, she smiles at me and I give her a small one back, “You are very talented at avoiding association, do you know that?” she says as she sits down beside me.I merely smile response, “Don’t act humble now, you did it a lot to me at the apartment,” I give her a sheepish smile.“Are you really the owner of that apartment building?” I ask her, but before she can answer I ask again. “Why did you keep trying if you knew I was avoiding you?”Gerta smiles with a shrug, “Because the first day you arrived at the building, you had this lost look about you like your entire life h

Cassandra’s POVRay arrives at our tent the next morning, Lydia is waiting to rip him apart the minute he arrives.“You asshole!” I hear her scream at him from my position inside the tent.“Hello, Lydia,” he replies calmly.I step out of the tent and he turns to me, “Here to take me to the slaughter house?”Lydia places herself between me and Ray, “I’m going with her, I want to enlist too,” she folds her arms.“This has got to be the most ridiculous show of bravery I have ever seen,” we both turn to see Gray heading in our direction, he has his usual scowl on his face except this time it has a hint of distaste.Lydia immediately changes course, “Right, I forgot about the devil.”Gray cocks his head before turning to Ray, “This is the childish bullshit we have to deal with now?”“Call it what you want asshole, I am still going to join your stupid fight squad,” she tells him, meeting his glare with one of her own.“You can’t join, Lydia. Your wolf is still volatile, you should be busy l

Cassandra’s POVLydia and Gray glare at each other, both having no intention of backing down. Truthfully, when Lydia had announced she would be coming with me after I told her about Ray’s instructions to me, I had given her a dubious look. These two do not seem like the type to let anyone force them into something they never agreed to.“If I may,” Xavier speaks up and all heads turn to him. He had arrived at my tent to take me to Ray, I had felt like a primed sheep on its way to the slaughter especially since Tessa arrived with some clothes for me to change into a few minutes earlier.“Lydia going with you two doesn’t sound so bad, what are the odds that they have her scent too,” he tells us.“Stop talking Xavier,” Ray growls and Xavier goes quiet but he has a smirk on his face.“Yeah, what he said,” Lydia speaks up, “Whatever that means, he has a point.”Gray rolls his eyes before turning to Ray, “She is a wolf, they couldn’t possibly have her scent.”Ray has a faraway look, and he g

Lydia’s POV“How do you know they are Hunters?” I whisper back to Gray, he gives me an obvious look.“I’ve fought enough of those scum bags to be able to pick them out in a crowd,” he tells me, “And I recognize one of them from the day we rescued you and Cassandra.”I grab his hand in panic, “He could recognize you.”“I know,” he growls, his head and gaze focused on the table, “They are probably looking for Ray and Cassandra, I should warn them,” he brings out a small phone just as a hand clamp down on his shoulder.My spine goes tense and the hairs on the back of my neck stands on end as the huge man smiles at us, “Hello,” he says in an oddly soft voice, “Mind if I join you?”Gray growls but the man forces him back into his seat with his hand still on Gray’s shoulder, “You gave my men quite the run for their money, Grayson. If you weren’t a dirty rogue, I would have recruited you.”Gray scowls at him, “Lucas, you found me. what other luck you got going for you,” he spits at the man.