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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 eyes, and I wanted to

and Madalynn

thankful to him,

you, Damian,” I

say anything, only

to reach out for him, to plead my case for my life and

will my baby be assured of a life with a mother that will love

might’ve been intending to persuade him to spare

hope that, one day, I can

sighed and turned to look at me for a moment again before he said,

my wet hair back from

few more minutes before the light

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

a flight of stairs and through another

wall before me. It was made of uneven stone and should’ve been difficult for anyone to scale, but he pulled something out of his backpack and tossed it up and over the top of the

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

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

up and took hold of his wrist, and he yanked me up so that I could reach the top of the wall. The rain continued

job, Rosalie,” Damian said

burning, and we weren’t anywhere near

over the other side. I watched him as he neared the ground, and his

from his

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

object at his feet appeared to

A sharp one.

head away as Damian looked up at me, instinct telling me it was better if he didn’t know that I

it, I couldn’t say, but it made

would be surrounded by

once we were far enough away from

shouted, and I realized I made a perfect target sitting on top of the wall, especially with the lightning

of my mind for the moment-after all, it made sense that he might need a knife if we were planning on running through the woods. I grabbed hold of the rope ladder