All Chapters of The Rogue Queen’s Vengeance : Chapter 91 - Chapter 98

Ronan’s Pov"Her parents were traitors," Thorne continued, watching my reaction carefully. "And the girl carries their legacy. Every day she lives, every wolf who sees her silver eyes and feels her aura, the risk grows. Raven understands this. He's gathering rogues under her banner, using her bloodline to legitimize his claim to power."The pieces fell into place with sickening clarity. Raven wasn't just sheltering Aria. He was using her. Her bloodline, her heritage, her very existence, all tools to build his rogue army into something that could challenge the packs.And Aria, broken and desperate after I rejected her, had walked right into his trap."Then your problem is with Raven," I argued, even though I knew it was futile. "Not Aria. She's done nothing wrong.""Our problem is with anyone who threatens pack stability." Thorne's patience was clearly wearing thin. His eyes hardened to chips of ice. "You have forty-eight hours, Alpha Draven. Help us retrieve Aria Blackwood peacefully,

Aria’s PovRelief flooded through me, warm and dizzying. He meant it. Whatever else I questioned about his motivations, this was real. He would protect me."Then we fight," Garrett said grimly."We can't win against twenty Executioners," Kian argued. "Even with our best warriors, we'd be slaughtered.""Then we don't fight fair." Raven's voice dropped, taking on that dangerous edge I had heard him use with enemies. He moved to the map, his fingers tracing lines across the territory. "We use the terrain, set traps, divide their forces and we use our greatest advantage."His eyes found mine again, and something in his gaze made my stomach clench."Aria's power," he continued, circling around the table toward me. "The Silver Fang power that the Council fears so much. They're coming for it, so let's give them a taste of what it can do.""I'm not a weapon," I said quietly."No." Raven stopped in front of me, his hand coming up to cup my cheek. The gesture would have looked tender to anyone

Aria's POVI couldn't breathe.Not because of Raven's earlier grip on my throat, though the bruises there still throbbed but because of what I was witnessing.Ronan stood over Raven's broken form, his chest heaving, blood streaming from a dozen wounds. Behind him, his warriors were mopping up the last of the rogue resistance. We'd won. Against impossible odds, we'd actually won.But the look in Ronan's eyes when he turned to face me wasn't triumph.It was anguish."Aria." My name came out rough, barely more than a whisper. "I'm so sorry. For everything. For being too blind to see Varyn's manipulation, for the rejection, for not fighting harder to keep you. I was a coward who chose duty over you, and I will regret it for the rest of my life."I opened my mouth to respond, but Laura's scream cut through the night."ARIA! BEHIND YOU!"I spun just as a massive gray wolf launched from the shadows. Not one of Raven's rogues, this one wore the distinctive black and gold collar that marked Co

Ronan's POVThree days ago, I watched them take my mate in chains.Three days to gather every favor I was owed, every alliance I'd forged, every ounce of political capital I had accumulated in twenty years of leadership.Three days to raise an army."This is insane," Alpha Darius of Stonehaven Pack had said when I arrived at his border. "You're asking me to attack the Council. That's treason.""I'm asking you to stand against corruption," I had corrected. "Elder Varyn manipulated me into rejecting my true mate. He's been working with rogues, destabilizing packs, playing Alphas against each other for his own gain. Aria Blackwood isn't the threat, he is.""And you have proof?""I have his confession. Recorded by my Beta before we imprisoned him." I had played Garvin's hidden recording—Varyn admitting to decades of manipulation, gloating about how easy it had been to control me.Darius's eyes had gone cold. "If this is true...""Then the Council has been compromised. And they're about to