Page 217 of Rogue Alpha Prince

“Two weeks ago, both.”

‘I know you were looking for more, but couldn’t find it. Just tell me the names so I can help you,’ Cain keeps mind-linking me.

‘We had six underage girls missing in the last few years…”

‘Underage? We had only one fourteen-year-old blonde girl come here two years ago,’he actually answers me.

Fourteen?

‘That would be Sara Manning, what happened to her? You don’t have a file with her name. Was she adopted? Name changed, or something?’

There’s a pause in our mind-link that makes me nervous. I let the doctor change the sonogram prop for the intervaginal one and scoot a little bit lower, but I don’t even register what he’s been saying about my scars.

Maybe he didn’t say anything at all seeing I’m clearly mind-linking with his Alpha.

Cain finally answers, and I try to calm my racing heart.

‘Ash… She’s not in the files because she was never sworn in, and…’

‘She was kidnapped. Did you do it?’ I accuse, knowing damn well Rogues are not saints. Even if I managed to close my eyes at some of the things while living here.

‘No. Well, I had a hunch that she was planted, so if she was kidnapped… I think I was right, and Unwanted kidnapped her and left her at our land to—'

‘Where is she?’ I can’t let the girl be separated from her loving family even one more day.

‘Asher. Before I could finish my investigation, she was gang raped and strangled to death by my father’s guards for his entertainment.’

I feel numb and lost.

‘She was fourteen, just a kid,’ I say, wiping the lone tear from the corner of my eye.

‘I know, and I couldn’t even penalize them because my father let them, and technically they didn’t break the law. Because she wasn’t sworn in,’ Cain adds, and my blood boils.

‘You are telling me there is a law that lets you do literally whatever you want with anyone outside of the Rogue pack? Don’t tell me. It’s in the blood book, too.’

There is another short pause on his end, and that tells me everything.

‘I could change so many things with that one law. It’s very long and so horrendous,’ he says finally, taking me aback.

He means changing it when he kills his father. As far as I know, King’s death is the only option to change the blood book law.

‘I thought you wanted to change the law that made you kill all your siblings,’ I say, not sure anymore if he told me that or if I just assumed that that’s what I would want to do in his place.

‘I did. But…as I said, I could change so many lives of the whole pack for the better, and you don’t want to have kids with me anyway.”

‘I…’

‘Ash, do you really think I don’t know why you didn’t want to heal your uterus? On purpose? Anyway, I’m just saying, you were right before. We could just have one mini-wolf to fulfill the agreement between the Kingdoms and in that case, me changing that law would be just a meaningless revenge. A revenge I would already get by killing him, so…’

My mind is racing because then he could agree to get killed at an old age, so our one pup could then change that law too, and the problem wouldn’t pass to our grandchildren…

‘No more than one pup it is,’ I agree because the wellness of the whole pack and other werewolves is more important than changing the law that only affects our very hypothetical offspring… ‘You should change the law that would really make a difference.’

I shut Cain off when I notice the Doctor is looking at me as if he asked me something.

“I’m sorry, Alpha was mind-linking me. What’s going on?”

“So, um, you seem to have had ovulation about fifteen days ago,” he sends me a small smile and clicks something on the machine, taking measurements, I suppose.

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