Chapter 188: Return to the Rogue District

Edrick

“It’s located in the Rogue district,” the investigator said, his face pale and his eyes wide.

The Rogue district was such a dangerous place that even the police were terrified to go there. But I wasn’t; if I had to fight a thousand Rogues to save Moana and Ella, then I would do it.

“Let’s go,” I said, storming over to the door.

“Mr. Morgan, are you sure it’s safe for you to come—” one of the cops began, but I whirled around to glare at him intensely. I could feel my eyes beginning to glow, and my stare alone was enough to make the cop fall silent and shut his mouth. The rest of the cops nodded, and we left Selina and the maids standing in the foyer.

“Stay here and call me immediately if Moana happens to show up,” I told Selina as the elevator doors closed. The last thing I saw was her nodding grimly with tears in her eyes.

I climbed into the passenger seat with the police chief and then we were on our way. As we drove across town, I couldn’t stop thinking about what Kelly had implied… How she thought that I would actually marry her in exchange for Moana and Ella’s lives. But the sound of

Kelly had threatened them and forced them to leave quietly. For all I knew, maybe she gave them something to make them sleep, and had her men take them away. Honestly, the latter was preferable in some ways, at least for Ella; I would have preferred if she could have just been magically asleep for everything so that it wouldn’t haunt her later. But deep down, I logically knew

way through the city, using their lights to make traffic move aside so we could get quickly through the city. It wasn’t

darker part of town, where Rogues lined the streets and stared at us as we drove past. I nodded grimly, just trying not to look out the windows too much in case any of the Rogues got pissed off and decided to

console with the location that Kelly’s call came from pinged on it, and as we got closer, it felt as though the tall buildings were caving in on us. The darker the Rogue district became, the heavier and more sickening it felt. On either side of the street, I could see Rogues wandering aimlessly. They looked at the cop cars with suspicion, and I knew that if we ran

eventually, that was exactly

out of an alleyway

cars behind us. “Looks like we’ve got a Code Purple up here,”

there for a few seconds, then clicked his radio again, this time using the speaker on the car

way,” he said firmly. “We need to pass. This is

even then, the Rogues didn’t move out of the way. In fact, they only began to walk closer to the car. More Rogues came out of the alleyway then, and by that point there were at

dammit,” the cop

shifted at once and descended on the line of cop cars. The car shook violently as two Rogues jumped on the hood, barking and snarling. The cop and I

couldn’t just sit there and hope that the police would fight through the Rogues; I needed to help. I quickly jumped

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