All Chapters of Until She Was Theirs: Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

Lilith's POV The night wind bit against my cheeks as we rode on Cassian’s bike, the city lights shrinking behind us. Nolan sat in front, hands steady on the handles, the hum of the engine vibrating through both of us. I clung to him, laughter bubbling out of me until I could hardly breathe.“Are you trying to get us arrested?” I shouted over the rush of air.He half-turned to look at me, grin wide under the blur of passing streetlamps. “You were the one laughing out loud enough for the cops to hear!”We sped down the nearly empty road, the neon streaks fading into open highway. I hadn’t realized how much tension had been wound up inside me until it burst free somewhere between the gala and the first turn of this escape. The cameras, Theo’s sneer, Selene’s smug little laugh gone, replaced by nothing but the wind and speed.When we finally slowed, the city was just a glow on the horizon. Nolan pulled off the main road and onto a narrower path lined with tall grass. The bike rolled to a

Cassian's POVThe call came in the middle of Lilith saying something about the whole Nolan, Lilith and Theo saga going on but the moment I saw the unknown number displayed on my screen with a location tag I didn’t recognize, my stomach twisted. I stepped back, lifting a hand to signal her to wait. She frowned, already sensing something was off.“Cassian?” she asked, quieter now.I answered the call.A distorted voice crackled through the speaker. “Five minutes. If you are late, Rogue dies.”My heart slammed against my ribs. “Who the fuck is this?”“You’ve already wasted ten seconds,” the voice replied, emotionless. And then the line went dead immediately.“Cassian? What happened?” Lilith’s voice sharpened, the anxiety rising fast.I shoved my phone into my pocket and grabbed my jacket. “I have to go Lilith.”“Go where? What is wrong….”“I don’t have time to explain. Stay here. Don’t you dare fucking follow me.” It came out harsher than I intended, but the adrenaline was already clawi

Lilith’s POV I feel in my guts that something was wrong the moment Cassian answered that call. And it wasn’t just the way his expression tightened, it was the way he looked at me before rushing out the door. Like something terrible had just cracked open inside him. He didn’t say where he was going. He didn’t say who called. He didn’t say anything except “Stay here.” And just like that he was gone. The silence he left behind pressed against my chest like a weight. Tyla peeked her head out from the hallway, already frowning. “He left just like that? No explanation?” “No.” I sank onto the couch feeling frustrated, staring at the door as if he might burst back in at any second. “He looked… scared. Or panicked. I have never seen him like that.” “Well,” Tyla said, stepping into the living room and crossing her arms, “Cassian seems like someone that does stupid things. A lot of them. Maybe it’s normal.” I shook my head. “No. This isn't the usual Cassian recklessness. It felt differe

Nolan’s POVRogue didn’t make it easy to get answers out of her, but fear is a funny thing the moment Lilith stepped back and I stepped forward, Rogue cracked faster than she thought she would. She wasn’t afraid of me. Not exactly. She was afraid of what I could do with everything I knew about her. Fear for her sister did the rest.Once she realized I wasn’t going to back off, she stopped wasting time.“I keep telling you viper won’t keep him in one place,” she had said, shivering despite the heat of the workshop. “He likes to move his prisoners around. Makes it harder for people to find them… or try to rescue them.”“How many possible places?” I had asked.“Four. Maybe five.”“Write them down.”She hesitated, then scribbled names and rough directions onto a grease-stained sheet of paper.Now those same scribbled notes were folded in my jacket pocket as I wheeled my bike out of the garage and into the night air. I threw one leg over my bike, Nuala.And Lilith stepped in my path.Her fa

Lilith’s POVI didn’t realize my hands were shaking until the phone almost slipped out of them.Rogue was gone.Nolan has obviously been captured.Cassian too, maybe somewhere bleeding, tied up, maybe dying.And I was standing alone in the middle of Rogue’s now-abandoned hideout, surrounded by scattered tools, the smell of gasoline, and a silence that pressed in heavy on my chest like a vice.“Think, Lilith,” I whispered to myself, pacing. “Think.”I wanted to run after Nolan. I wanted to run anywhere that led to him. But I had no idea where Viper kept his hostages, and Rogue my last lead had walked away in a cloud of dust, leaving me with nothing but my fear and her fading silhouette.Running away like Nolan told me definitely wasn’t an option. Going to the police? Too slow. Too useless. And the moment Viper caught wind that someone was searching for him, he would kill the both of them out of spite.I swallowed hard. I needed help, but definitely not the kind of help that followed rul