Chapter 455
Chapter 455
They circle the house, taking it in turns. I couldn’t stand it any longer. Slipping out of bed, I silently grab the rifle that I stored in my wardrobe and creep up towards the window.
Aiming at one, I don’t fire immediately. I watch as they talk to each other in hushed, gravelly voices. They spoke in code too and just like that, they leave. Disappearing behind the empty house opposite mine. Unusual behaviour for Rogues, they didn’t usually care about a locked door or window.
I watch until the sun rises, but they don’t come back.
“What are you doing?” Madison asks with a yawn.
*There were Rogues here last night.” I’m not going to lie to her.
“You didn’t wake me?”
“They didn’t do anything. It was more like they were looking for someone.”
“That’s not normal, is it?”
“No.”
“Were they looking for you?” she asks
“I’m not sure.”
Her eyes cast a glance over the rest of the room. Almost like she expected to see Cooper here. She shivers and quickly gets dressed. “Can we go back to Black Shadow now?”
*Sure.*
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Madison is quiet in the car. Brining her with me had been a mistake, but without her. I never would have got that shit out of my back.
“I will keep you safe.” I mutter and place my hand on her thigh but she pulls it away.
“You don’t know that.”
“I know that I want to protect you. I know that I can now I’m back to full strength.”
*He made me inject something into you without my knowledge. How can you keep me safe from that? How do I know that this isn’t a dream created by Cooper?*
I pull the gun from my hip and hand it to her. “If you think this is a dream, point it at me and pull the trigger.”
She takes it and slowly lifts the gun. I don’t slow the car. I don’t stop either. If she really believed it was a dream, then I was about to die.
I take my eyes off the road to look at her. She can barely keep the gun straight. Tears flood her chestnut eyes. “I don’t know what to do?”
*Yes you do.”
Her breathing is heavy as she continues to point it at me. A little gasp escapes her parted lips. “He wouldn’t know would he? He wouldn’t know that you would voluntarily let me shoot you?”
I shoot her a wink and she drops the gun into her lap. “Besides, you would need to take the safety off.” My fingers drum on the steering wheel. “He’s really got to you, hasn’t he?”
From the corner of my eye, I see her bob her head. “It’s like nothing is mine. He took away my abilities. He somehow convinced me to do something to you. What else could he have done? Did he make me do that to other people? Did he touch me when I was with him? How long has he been watching me?
I didn’t have an answer for her. But I understood why she was so reluctant to want to do more than be kissed. He had put more cracks in her soul and I couldn’t let anymore appear.
“He wouldn’t have touched you, he has a thing for men, not women.”
I watch her relax and then lean forward, “Is that Blair’s brother?” Madison asks
I slow the car to see a boy with blonde ringlets running in our direction. His feet pound the pavement, sweat drips off of him as he eagerly looks around. Ignoring the cars passing him.
“Why would he be out here, alone?” Madison asks.
I pull the car over and the moment I step out. He tries to pick up speed, running away from me.
It takes two seconds to grab him. “Where do you think you are going?”
The little shit tries to kick me in the balls.
“I don’t think so, get in the fucking car.”
“You can’t tell me what to do. I hate you.”
I glare at him and he drops into silence. The kid certainly did have a darkness about him.
“Get in the car.” We were only a couple of miles out from the pack, so he had made it quite far, but who was he running from?