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.

built this place?”

sense still.Though she was too far gone by the time I found her,”

of the

killed them, and those that I didn’t kill, your rogues did in the attack.It is perfectly safe out here,” he tells me and I watched him carefully, not liking

Taylor here when I go back for her,” he

you expected, but it is only temporary until the heat dies down, and then we will flee the country,” he tells me, gripping the blanket and tugging

the bathroom?” I

outhouse,” he says, and I quickly

creak under my feet, and he watches me.I try to take in my surroundings, yet when I move off the bed, the clang of ” chains makes me realize the attachment

sure how you would wake,” he tells me as I stare down at the chain that was

pocket.He bent down, undoing the chain attached to the

did I not notice that

of it was all I

at the door.I look at it when he steps

you,”

unnecessary,”

feeling through the bond tells me it is,” he whispers before giving me a nudge, and I clench my teeth

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

but I won’t be getting

I didn’t really need to use the bathroom

the tiny porch, and I could see nothing but darkness and trees showing how

from dew, and I wondered what

abandon me out here, or

would be wondering where

They had to be.

“Ava?” I ask.

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

creaks as I open it, and I frown.I would rather piss in the woods or my ruin my

hygienic than this shit box; it was quite literally a

open,” Carter says, gripping the swinging door before it

me to go when you are holding the chain you shackled

and

letting the

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 a

is no light,” I tell him, and he holds the

hardly stayed out here long enough to

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

the stream,” he laughs, and I look down at the makeshift

least turn away?” I ask him, and he does, keeping one hand

not wanting to touch it in case my ass developed tinea

asks when I

you want to suss out the woods a

word for it,” I tell him as I step out, letting the door swing

we were because I could see no lights, and I briefly

the air was a little

around the foot of the bed.I sit on the edge

he asked, and I nodded, watching him and looking  around the

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