Page 189 of Rogue Alpha Prince

Cain.

He’s being stabbed all over his body and I feel it through the mate bond because he marked me. No… It’s not enough reason to feel that. I worked with enough marked couples on the battlefield to know they don’t feel everything. Only the life-threatening ones…

I abruptly stand up, my chair tipping over, and everyone stills in the dining hall staring at me curiously.

“Ca— Alpha is not healing.”

“Not healing from what?” Beta asks but doesn’t look me in the eyes. He knows something.

“Tell me what the fuck is going on, and why my husband is getting stabbed as we speak?!”

The silence is deafening, and I wince at the new source of Cain’s pain.

“He doesn’t have a mom!” Claudia can’t take it anymore. “She got killed as soon as she was no longer needed for breastfeeding him!”

Beta stands up tipping his chair, and screams with an authoritative voice, “Guards! Take her to the King’s council for betraying her Alpha’s secrets.”

Chapter 50 – FRANCINE

Cain’s POV

Ihear a heavy metal door opening but don’t look up from the dark puddle of my blood. I hear loud steps, and soon, I see a short, heavy woman with an ugly scrunch on her face, right in front of me.

Francine. Finally.

The only one that could actually kill me if I’m right about the stone.

“Do you know how many Arab guys with blue eyes we have on this side of the north? Just one. The Rogue Prince,” she says mockingly, probably bloating with pride.

As if I didn’t serve myself to them on a silver platter already stuffed with lethal amounts of wolfsbane just so I could meether.

I involuntarily shudder when she touches my forehead with her greasy fingers to push my hair away from my face. Then she takes a rusty knife, and I fight with myself to not bite her head off.

Maybe I can’t escape from this hellhole without the little extra help I need from Atlas, not far anyway, but that doesn’t mean I can’t rough her up a little.

I don’t though. I want her to be clueless about my true raw power, at least until I have a better idea of where the amulet might be…

She takes a big swing with her knife-holding arm and soon I feel a cold wet thing on the back of my head. My knees give up under me but not before I notice a big, silver, real-heart-shaped cage-like pendant slipping out of her blouse.

The one containing the amulet that I have been relentlessly looking for over the past few years.

But the last thing I register before my mind goes completely blank is the fact that it’s… empty.

Fuck—

Chapter 51 – Who I’ll Never Be Able To Meet

Back to Asher’s POV

Ienter the makeshift military camp in the middle of the cold night, cursing myself for still wearing the long-sleeved mini-dress and not eating more of that tasteless soup.

I’m mad at all these grown-ass men around, fighting like preschoolers. In the middle of all this chaos, I can see Beta trying to diffuse the situation between the Officers while he fights with Gamma Atlas himself.

“Are you ready to tell me what’s going on here?” I shout, feeling through my mate-bond that Cain is fucking not here either.

“What are you doing here?” Beta roars back at me.

I tailed you, isn’t it obvious?

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