Chapter 109: At the Cost of Her Own Life

Troy

Hayden was sitting on a rock, chewing loudly as he snacked on what looked like a piece of jerky. I grimaced at the sound, shifting my weight to sit more comfortably on the cold dirt floor of the tunnel.

“You’re welcome for the clothes,” Hayden quipped, “I fig ured I could offer you one last kindness by not having your balls dragging in the dirt while we wait for, uh, whatever hap pens.”

“And what exactly is going to happen?” I asked tersely. Hayden shrugged. “Why are you here, exactly?” | asked, gen uinely confused. Hayden was a dumbass, as thick as they come. I found it highly unlikely he had much, if anything, to offer Tasia.

“Carl took a liking to me, I think. I’m not so bad once you get to know me.”

“You’re a rapist and murderer-” | bit out. Hayden chuck led.

“Yeah, well. Whatever world Tasia and Carl are gonna make once they have the stones… it won’t matter. Everyone l’

ve wronged will be dead. A clean slate.”

“You’re the worst,” | mumbled, biting the inside of my cheek as I tried to come up with a plan.

0001 “I had been working with Damian, you know. I knew every

thing he was planning on doing with that map everyone was Tooking for. Damian sent me to Valoria to meet with Carl after you and the princess took off on that pirate ship. I figured Carl and Tasia had more to offer me than Damian did. They said I’d be an Alpha, that I could live in the castle. Stuff like that.”

“In exchange for what?”

“Betraying Damian. Killing him when he returned to Valo ria with whatever the God’s name is… Lyon, whatever-”

“Lycaon,” I corrected.

“Yeah, that’s what I said. Anyway, Damian never came back, and then we got word that the princess had returned to Winter Forest, so… I just hung out with them. Like I said be fore, I did have sex with Tasia-”

“Cool,” I replied dryly. “You realize these people are going to kill you, right? You’re not like them. You’ll be useless to them when this is all over.”

He ignored me, biting into another piece of jerky he had fished out of his jacket pocket.

“I bet they’ || spare Maeve, you know? They’ll need her blood, or whatever.”

| swallowed against the fury, willing myself to keep my mouth shut.

“I bet if I asked, they’d give her to me, you know, as a prize for helping them,”

I bucked against my restraints, the rope binding my hands

behind my back going taunt and biting into my skin.

  1. 19. Vouchert

“Oh, calm down, Troy. I’ll be gentle=”

A bang rang out through the tunnel, then the sound of falling rock. I turned my head toward the broken door that was leaned against the entrance to the room, then I heard voices raised in alarm, then snarling.

through the tunnel, and I slowly turned my head

| asked, running my tongue along my

scream ripped through the tunnel, and then the space was

handful of oil lanterns that hung

from his perch on the rock. Keaton lunged for ward, tackling

absolutely wild, robbed of his “gentle but somewhat violent giant” look. He hadn’t shifted, but had definitely been fighting by the look of his tattered

make this slow,” Robbie huffed as he cut through my restraints. “I don’t wanna be

them some privacy,” | swallowed, closing his eyes as Hayden began to beg for mercy. “Is it

seen a Rogue before, Troy? Creepy looking creatures. The Drogomor warriors are takin’ care of ’em, though. Rosalie ran in here alone, before we could stop her. This is a big

likely with Ta sia. Are… is everyone safe? The

he led me away from the grisly scene taking place between Keaton

“They’re fine. Safe.”

took a strained

fought them off one by one. I took the brunt of the beating, my face black and blue with bruises by the

should shift, it might be

It took Keaton

“What? How so?

through the tunnel. All of the hair on my body stood on end as I recognized the scream as Maeve’s, and I turned hurriedly toward the

as he stepped for ward into the lantern light. He was panting, sweat prickling on his brow as though he had been chasing someone.

is she?” I demanded, my

still in his wolf form and finished with Hayden, leapt

the ground, his teeth inches away from his

of things; blood and dirt and a few sticks

Hanna… I’m not sure. And I haven’t seen

who was grimacing under Keaton’s weight, Keaton paw pressed into his

too late, your precious boy is

just as dirty as the rest of us, but her

I tried to go to her but Ethan held out

strange rumbling sound echoed through the tunnel. The lanterns on the walls began to

out!” Ethan bellowed, pushing Maeve toward me. I looked down at Keaton, who bared his teeth, waiting for the green light to bite into

It’s over!” Carl laughed,

grabbed Maeve and pulled her to my chest, holding

the safe house.

and Robbie. I need to

gave me the most loving, knowing look I’d ever

would be the last time I’d have a chance to

but Robbie had already closed the short distance between us, gently

away as dust and dirt began to fall from the

the tunnel’s depths as

an unreadable look flashing in his eyes. He looked down at Carl,

into Carl. Carl’s head bounced against the floor on impact, and he was knocked out cold. It was impressive, but I didn’t have a chance to say so. Keaton was trying in vain to shift

using the wall to support him self. He pointed to the lantern, and for the first time, I noticed the red stones hanging from each of them, the same stone found beneath Dianny, and what their city had been carved

shit. Are

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