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.

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“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.

echoed through the tunnel, and I slowly turned my

guys, or yours?” | asked, running my

glossing over his eyes as an other scream ripped through the tunnel, and then the

in the dim light of the handful of oil lanterns that hung on nails along the walls. Blood dripped from his teeth as he looked at me, recog nition flashing behind his

then winced as Hayden screamed and scrambled from his perch on

of the room, panting as he frantically looked around. He looked absolutely wild, robbed of his “gentle but somewhat

cut through my restraints. “I don’t wanna

give them some privacy,” | swallowed, closing his eyes as Hayden began to beg for mercy. “Is it just you and Keaton?” | asked, rubbing my wrists where the

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

to find Maeve and Hanna. They’re likely with Ta sia. Are…

me on the shoulder as he led me away from the grisly

“They’re fine. Safe.”

took a strained

Tasia’s warriors. With no time to shift, we fought them off one by one. I took the brunt of the beating, my face black and blue with bruises by the time we took down the last man, but finally, we made it into the main part of

we should shift,

dunno if that’s true. It took Keaton a long time, and

“What? How so?

on end as

for ward into the lantern light. He was panting, sweat prickling on his brow as

demanded,

wolf form and

had him pinned to the ground, his teeth

toward us, covered in all kinds of things; blood and dirt and a few sticks

Hanna… I’m not sure. And I haven’t

Ethan was panicked. He looked down at Carl, who

late, your precious boy

running up behind us from the depths of the tunnel. She was just as dirty as the rest of us, but her face was lined with terror. “Oh, Goddess, Dad, we have to-we have to-Mom

her but

walls began to vibrate, their oil-lit

me. I looked down at Keaton, who bared his teeth, waiting for the green light to

over!” Carl laughed, grinning

and pulled her to my

the safe

Robbie. I need

put something in my hand, a knife, and gave me the most loving, knowing look I’d

wondering if it would be

already closed the short distance between us, gently taking Maeve

dust and dirt

was gone, swallowed by the tunnel’s depths as he ran through the

Keaton!” | commanded, but Keaton hesitated, an unreadable look flashing in his eyes. He looked down at

whole weight into Carl. Carl’s head bounced against the floor on impact, and he was knocked out cold. It

it was pure agony. He was red and panting by the end of it, shaking as he wobbled and 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,

shit. Are

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