Chapter 74
The group of rogues ran for their lives, including the Scar. One of them tried to take Aurora with them but he got shouted at by bamber
“What the f**k are you long! Just f**g leave her”
He slidn’t get to finish.
The next second a giant black wolf leaped out from the darkness and bit down on the rogue’s neck!
Is sharp fangs pierced deep into the rogue’s flesh, ending his life before he could even make a sound,
The other rogue screamed at the top of his lung. He was so scare that he couldn’t even move an inch. The giant wolf turned swiftly, charged forward, and crashed with the rogue, sending the rogue flying backwards like a kite. His body hit against a tree and dropped dead.
The giant wolf bellowed deeply and shifted back to human. He shed by Aurora’s side and held her wounded leg. “Christ… You are hurt!”
“Forget abufit me!” Aurora grabbed his hand and said urgently, “You have to go after them! The Scar and the others—~||
“Maxie is on it. Don’t worry,” Damien pulled off his shirt and used it as a bandage to wrap up Aurora’s bleeding leg. “The others can’t get away…But I am not so sure about Sterning
Sterning? Is that the one with the scar?”
“Yeah. He is the Rogue King’s most trusted man.”
Damien spooned Aurora off the ground and started to head back to the Fox Town, “We crossed paths a few times before. He’ is slippery like a snake.”
Aurora buried her face to Damien’s neck. She could smell his enticing scent, which was now mixed with a rusty smell of blood.
“…Sorry,” she said with a m**d voice after a long while.
“Don’t apologize, Damien said.
“You don’t even know what I am apologizing for yet.”
“Whatever it is. I don’t need you to apologize for anything.” Damien said deeply. “You have done a brilliant job already. And you don’t need to be so strong and perfect at everything all the me. I am here to help you.”
Aurora’s heart swelt.
Only Damien could give her the sense of security like no one else could,
“You could shift and carry me on your back,” Aurora suggested. “It’s easier and faster that way.”
“No. I don’t want you
bump around on my back as I ran. Now s fine”
Damien insisted on walking and carrying Aurora in his steady arms all the way back to the Fox Town.
When they got there, a couple people ran out from the village towards them. At the front were Kaelan and Rivena. “Aurora!” Rivena cried anxiously, “Where have been looking for you like crazy! Thank **d you are safe!”
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She wanted tis take Autre gun Damien’s arms. But Damien tijd his body and avoided her.
Who went in the woods with Aurora?” Damien staired at the two of them, his eyes freezing cold.
Karlan bit down his lips. There was a self-reproachful look on his face.
I did,” he answered in a low voice.
“Then why didn’t you stay close to your Gamina, keeping her safe?” Damien demanded sternly, “Should I remind you that this is your most important job
Kaelan held his head down low, his body shaking slightly. Aurora could tell that he blamed himself deeply.
“That’s enough,” Aurora sighed. “Kaelan didn’t mean it either. Stop giving him a hard time.”
Damien let out a snort and walked pass by Rivena and Kaelan.
The fire had already been put down. Soldiers were busy rescuing people and treating their wounds. Steven and Jeff had arrived as well. They stood outside of the only intact house in this village, talking to Maxie and Glen anxiously.
Jeff cried out first when he saw Damien and Aurora, “They are back! Alpha Damien, what the hell is going on here! I heard that the rogues attacked?!”
Damien nodded, “Yes. Let’s move inside. We need to talk.”
The 6 of them stepped into the house and closed the door.
Aurora spoke up first. And she cut right into the chase:
“There is a mole among us.”
Steven’s mouth dropped open. He looked panic-stricken, “What the f**k are you talking about?”
“The timing is suspicious. They attacked us first right before we send out our advance force. And they chose the perfect target, Fox Town, which is geologically easy for them to attack and retreat, and it doesn’t have many armed soldiers. They can’t have this much information without somebody on the inside.
“Even so, you still can’t jump to the conclusion that we have a mole, Jeff frowned.
“Those are my conjectures,” Aurora said. “But the rogues also confirmed my theory.”
“They what?!”
“I encountered with a rogue’s leader. His name is Sterning I think. He said and I quote, ‘people may appear to be loyal to you on the outside, but on the inside, they belong to us.”
The room lapsed into a ringing silence. There was a mixed look of doubt and fear on everyone’s face.
After a long pause, Steven looked around the room and said, “So this is what we do now? Pointing fingers at each other? We should be discussing our next move! Instead of wasting our time on somebody’s conspiracy theory!”
Aurora’s face turned dark, “You are saying that I made it up?”
“Well, no one saw you talking to the rogue, didn’t they!” Steven countered fiercely. “And your conjectures sound groundles as well! I don’t want to doubt my alliance before the war even started!”
“We won’t be able to move forward if we don’t dig out this mole first!” Aurora snapped, “Every plan we make, every step w take… The rogues will know it first. And they will act before we do. It is **d to fight a war that is destined to lose at the ve beginning!”
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Glen serduched his head and sighed, “G**a Aurora has a point, Calm down, Steven. Let’s hear her out.”
But Steven still looked furious. He jumped out his fist and snapped. “Hear her out? You get what she is saying right Glen? She in hrying to say that the mole is among the 6 of Right here in his mom!”
Clen widened his eyes. Jeff moved uneasily in his seat. And the row between Maxie’s brows grew deeper.
“Among the 6 of us!” Maxic murmured in disbelief
“You heard G** Aurora. She said that the rogues knew about the advance force.” Steven sneered, “We hadn’t announced it to the soldiers yet. Only the 6 of us know about the plan. So if Jomebody leaked it, it has got to be us.”
Aurora said nothing. Her face was deadpan serious.
But her silence confinned Steven’s words.
Jeff looked around the room blankly. He was clearly struggling internally.
“B-But.. who could it be?” he stammered, “Every one of us has been in this alliance since the very beginning. I-It’s striking to think any of us might…No. Can’t. I can’t go down that path!”
To think that their enemy had been hiding among them all along, training with them, dining with them, going to every meeting with them….
It was horrible. And frightening!
So who do you suspect? Huh?” Steven asked Aurora with a withering look, “You can’t throw out a question like that and let it hang in the air.”
Aurora clenched the arm of her chair in silence.
She lowly shook her head, “Honestly…I don’t know. Everyone is possible.”
Steven rolled his eyes, “Even you, right? Didn’t you get abducted by rogues a year ago? Maybe they turned you at that time
“G**a Stevent
Maxie snapped. Her eyes glinted fiercely.
“You are crossing a line!” she hissed.
Steven locked eyes with her for a few seconds and turned away first. He slumped down into his seat and rubbed his hair frustratedly.
A heavy silence fell on them again.
so now what?” Jeff let out a bitter laugh, “Are we going to sit here and play the game ‘Guess Whom?”
No one laughed at his joke. People were all deep in their own thoughts.
Just then, Glen, who had stayed in silence for a long time, slowly looked up at Aurora with a struggling look.
“I actually have a question for you, Aurora,” said him reluctantly
“Yes?”
“Your guard, Kaelan..Why does he speak the rogue’s language?”