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Chapter 54 He Had A Knife

**Rosalie’s POV

The rain picked back up as Damian and I ran around the exterior of the capital. It was pouring so hard, I could hardly see where we were going, but I kept my eyes on him and forced my feet to keep moving forward.

Faltering at this point wasn’t an option. I had to keep moving for my baby’s sake and for my own.

According to the plan, we would need to get out of Mirage first.

“This way,” Damian said, and I realized he was ushering me through a small door in the ground that reminded me of the cellar we had back home. I wouldn’t have even known it was there if he hadn’t tugged it open.

The door led down a flight of stairs to a narrow tunnel. Damian pulled a flashlight out of his pocket and illuminated the stone surface. At least it wasn’t raining down here.

“Where are we going?” I asked him as we ran along.

“The tunnel ends right before the wall,” he said. “We’ll have to climb over it.”

“And then what?” I asked, my heart pounding in my ears.

“Then… we’ll have to run for a couple of hours through the woods to a cabin. I hope your wolf is fast.”

I almost stopped running. “Wolf?” I said. “I can’t shift, Damian. I’m not twenty-one yet.”

He turned and looked at me, coming to a stop. “Sh*t,” he muttered. Shaking his head, he quickly adjusted his plan based on the news. “It’s fine. I’ll carry you.” Then he turned to face down the tunnel again.

Damian was running again, and I was struggling to keep up. “What about after we get to the cottage?” I asked him.

It took Damian a few moments to respond, as if he wasn’t quite sure what the plan was after that. But he had to know, didn’t he?

“After that,” he said, “we’ll head for the shore. There’s a boat leaving tomorrow morning for Suntra. It leaves from the east port at 10:00, and we’ll be on it.”

as

Suntra. I’d never been there before, but I’d heard it was a lovely place-a place where there were all kinds of people and it was easy to get lost. “Do we have money?” I asked.

Damian nodded. “Yes, I have money,” he replied. “You don’t need to worry about anything, Rosalie. I’ll take care of you.”

turned and looked at

met his eyes, and I

Madalynn was just trying to get rid of me-and

far, Damian had proven himself to be on my side. If I was sincere and thankful to him,

Damian,” I told

say anything, only

him, to plead my case for my life and

“I can’t express to you just how much this means to me. You’ve given me a hope I never expected to have. Not only will my baby be assured of a life with a mother

filled my eyes just thinking about it. I might’ve been intending to persuade him to spare me,

hope that, one

a moment again before he said,

said quietly, brushing my wet hair back from my

before the light from

Damian shouted between ripples of thunder. “We’re almost

of stairs and through another door, back out into the pouring rain. By the time the wall came

of uneven stone and should’ve been difficult for anyone to scale, but he pulled something out of

Damian went first, easily climbed the twenty-foot

hold of it and began to pull myself up as well. When I was near the

up so that I could reach the top of the wall. The

said behind me. “Great

still burning, and we weren’t anywhere near

I watched him as he neared the ground, and his hands

fell from his

and the rain was coming down in torrents, but as the lightning lit up the sky behind him, the light caught a glint

object at his feet

A sharp one.

at me, instinct telling me it was better if he didn’t know

had it, I couldn’t say, but it made a cold chill

knew I was safe as long as we were inside of the capital walls. If I started crying for help, we would

far enough away from

a perfect target sitting on

knife if we were planning on running through the woods. I grabbed hold