Macey POV

I awoke to fingertips brushing up and down my arm.

The chill in the air made me inhale deeply as tingles spread up my arm where his fingertips caressed.

I pretended to remain asleep when the vibration of a phone ringing beside my head buzzed and vibrated against the wooden cupboard it was sitting on.

My mate growls, and where I have been laid dips so I know I was on a bed, the jostling movement as he climbed off made that evident, my eyes flutter open, and I squint, remembering to remain calm and keep my heart rate down as I tried to take in my surroundings.

Brown wall paneling covered the walls and was the first thing I noticed in the dimly lit room.

The old-fashioned lamp with a floral shade made little light in the PO 10 X < room and the smell of burning wood reached my nose, it smelt a little damp making the scent a little too strong, reminded me of pine needles, the crackling sound reaching my ears at the same time his voice did.

“What is it, father?” Carter asks.

At least I knew who he was on the phone to.

“Not my problem.I did my part.I am done now.Find your own way into the city to enact your revenge.I want no part of it anymore,” he growls into the phone.

“I have better things to entertain myself with, but I left half the money in the mining tunnels for you.It should tide you over for a while.” 

Momentary silence has me lifting my head, which was a mistake on my behalf.

In my drowsy state, he sounded further away.

Turns out he was only a couple meters away and as I turned, I caught his eye.

Carter smirks at me, turning away, and I glance around to find I am in some small cabin.

“Contact Clark, he may help you,” Carter tells his father before I hear yelling and my eyes flick to Carter to see him pull the phone from his ear and glare at it before he let out a growl.

“Well, I told you he was a moron.If he has got himself locked up, what do you expect me to do about it?Figure it out.This is no longer my problem,” he snaps back before hanging up.

I swallow when I watch him set his phone down ,I quickly wiggle up on the bed to find I am only dressed in my bra and panties.I tug the itchy brown blanket higher, and Carter purrs before stepping closer and crawling onto the bed.I watched him.

He was a predator, and I refused to be his prey.

Bond or not, he was not my Alpha, and I would never be his Luna.

Watching him as he moves closer before I turned my head, looking out the window.

The place, I could tell, was somewhere deep in the woods.

I could hear the owls and night creatures outside, and I was met with total darkness, my own face reflecting back at me in the window.

“Where are we?” I ask, turning to look at Carter.

“In the woods,” he purrs, and I lift my knees, drawing the blanket closer.

“Yes, but where?” I ask him.

“My mother’s place.She built it with the forsaken,” he says.

this

aren’t all crazed.Some held some sense still.Though she was too far gone by the time I found her,”

the forsaken?” I

didn’t kill, your rogues did in the attack.It is perfectly safe out here,” he

to bring Taylor here when I go back for her,” he says, and

it is only temporary until the heat dies down, and then we will flee the country,” he tells

use the bathroom?” I

says, and I quickly get

try to take in my surroundings, yet when I move off the bed, the clang of ” chains makes me realize the attachment to my

me as I stare down at the chain that was also

off the bed before pulling a key from his pocket.He bent down, undoing the chain attached to the foot

I not

weight of it was all I could

grips the chain before pointing at the door.I look at it

take you,”

unnecessary,”

me it is,” he whispers before giving me a nudge, and I

adjustment, one you will used to.One thing about rogues is we adapt,” he

that the truth, but I won’t be getting accustomed to this

before spotting the small outhouse; I didn’t really need to use the bathroom or whatever the heck that ice age contraption was but the moment

could see nothing but darkness

was wet from dew, and I wondered what time

know he won’t abandon me out

where I am by

They had to be.

“Ava?” I ask.

her.My plans didn’t go as planned in the city, and my men were arrested,” Carter tells me with a growl as I make

would

it was quite literally a box

the swinging door

when you are holding the chain you shackled me with?” I ask, trying to keep the

and clicks

letting the

plunged into darkness X 4000 and roll my eyes before letting out a breath and pushing the door open.I sure as shit didn’t want to fall into the damn thing, and there was

me

him, and he holds the

panels on that thing.I hardly stayed out here long enough to warrant using it,” he

be on some huge mountain, yet in the darkness, I could see nothing and the wind up here whistled and howled between the

bath you’ll find here is the stream,” he laughs, and

I ask him, and he does, keeping one hand on the door,

pee, not wanting to touch it in

he asks when I

want to suss out the woods a little so you know

take your word for it,” I tell him as I

out of the city we were because I could see no lights, and I briefly wondered if

the cabin, the air was

bed and locked the chain around the foot of the bed.I sit on the edge watching as he undresses, removing his shirt and moving toward the small kitchenette in only

watching him and looking  around the

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