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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.”

looked at me, slowing his

and I wanted to believe

a ruse, and Madalynn

thankful to him,

you, Damian,” I

say anything, only

out for him, to plead my case for

hope I never expected to have. Not only will my baby be assured of a life with a mother that

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

a kind, brave soul, Damian. And I hope that, one day,

turned to look at me for a moment again before he said, “I promise to keep you safe, Rosalie, and

said quietly, brushing my

a few more minutes before the

of thunder. “We’re almost to the

up a flight of stairs and through another door, back out into the pouring rain. By the time the

difficult for anyone to scale, but he pulled something out of his backpack and tossed it up and over the top of the

ladder. Damian went first, easily climbed the twenty-foot wall, then waited

a deep breath, I grabbed hold of it and began to pull myself up as well. When I was near the top, Damian reached down. “Give me your hand, Rosalie!” he insisted. “I’ve got

me up so that I could reach the top of the wall. The rain continued to pummel me as I

said behind me.

lungs were still burning, and we weren’t anywhere near

I watched him as he neared the ground, and his hands slipped about halfway down.

fell from his

it was so dark, and the rain was coming down

at his feet

A sharp one.

telling me it was better if he

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

the capital walls. If I started crying for help, we would be surrounded by royal guards within seconds. There would be too much evidence pointing to Madalynn,

far enough away from the

target sitting on top of the wall, especially with the lightning illuminating my

put the knife out of my mind for the moment-after all, it made sense that he might need a knife if we were planning on