All Chapters of The Rule of the Rogues: Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

What do you grab when you have only six minutes to leave your home? Adira was conflicted. Not about leaving, she’d never called this hellscape home anyway, but because she had no idea what to take; everything she owned and was allowed to keep in the dingy basement bedroom she’d inhabited over the past four years was easily replaceable. The labs, doctors and endless experiments weren’t something she would miss but that didn’t change the fact that uprooting her life and taking nothing with her felt odd. Memories didn’t seem sufficient. After all she had been through day after day, hoping and praying the ‘well-meaning’ doctors who worked at the lab would find a cure for lycanthropy so she could be free, was there really nothing to take from it but a collection of sickening nightmares?She owned nothing of significance and yet leaving with nothing felt wrong. There had to be something she salvaged from the neverending sea of suffering inflicted upon anyone and anything which stepped over

Now they were away from the warehouse and appeared to be in no imminent danger, Adira had the chance to fully take in the man she was now responsible for. He was a young man, couldn’t have been any older than twenty five, possibly even Adira’s age. She didn’t know what to think about that. The idea of finding something in common with and relating to a man she may end up having to kill unsettled Adira - it was much better to ignore the fact that he is a person too.“Are you okay?”“Fi-”Her voice game out rough and raspy, the attempted words clearly grating her dry throat in all the worst places. The water she had, though partially satisfying for her dehydration, failed to help with the scratching in her throat. She cleared her throat as best as she could and took another gulp of water before attempting to speak again.“I’m fine.”The man raised an eyebrow and studied her suspiciously. His gaze was uncomfortable, as if he could stare straight through her and into her soul. Adira wasn’t

There was definitely something strange about this woman. Of course that wasn’t Braxton’s main problem as he dragged her out of the water to lay on the rocky edge beside him. There was no getting out of this now; the guards had seen him and he doubted they would stop, especially while she was still free. Whatever the woman was running from was atrocious, he could tell that just by looking at her, but he knew better than to ask any direct questions about it. Even he wasn’t that insensitive.He kept an eye on Adira for a moment as he just sat on the rocks, wanting to make sure she was still breathing, at least. It would have been great to know that she couldn’t swim before he jumped off a ledge holding onto her but he tried to ignore the inconvenience given the circumstances.Once he had established that she was, in fact, breathing, he turned to face away from her. He slipped his shirt off, wringing it out to remove at least most of the water, even if he was just going to put it right ba