Chapter 103 Nightshade Alley

    SERAPHINA

    What’s bwrong/b?” Ronan rushed back to bme/b.

    I shook my head and quickly stood up to find the bclearing /bpulsed with shock and disbelief as a rogue dove over the waterfall’s edge with Grace in his arms. He vanished into the night–mist below,

    “No…I clenched my fists.

    I could only stare, numb, disbelieving. Everything in me screamed as 1 failed to act in time. More than that. Alpha Jude and Alpha Gideon’s state bwas /brming.

    “GRACE!!!” Alpha Gideon’s roar tore through the air.

    Chaos shattered the stillness.

    “WHAT THE HELL?!“

    “HOW DID A ROGUE E GET IN HERE?!b” /b

    “DID HE CLIMB UP THE WATERFALL?!”

    Alphas exploded into motion, some running to the edge, others shifting in ce, wolves bsnarling /bin panic. However, no one. not a single soul, was more explosive than Alpha Jude.

    “GRACE!!!” her name was

    was torn from his throat, ragged and filled bwith /bagony.

    Heunched himself toward the edge of the waterfall but the moment he neared it, his body mmed against something invisible. bSomething /bpowerful. An unseen barrier crackled against his skin like a wall of energy. It sent him flying back bwith /bbrutal force.

    He hit the ground, rolled, band /bcame up again like a beast, eyes zing, jaw clenched.

    He bcharged/b..

    bAgain/b, bmmed /bback.

    A wall. An invisible force field. A border.

    My bstomach /bdropped.

    “bWhat /bis going on? The others jumped from that waterfall earlier so why couldn’t he now?” I whispered, confused as I stood near bRonan /bwho also did bnot /bbseem /bto have bthat /banswer.

    Not far from him. Alpha Gideon bhad /bshifted, a bmonstrous /bck wolf of absolute wrath. He, tou, bolted btoward /bthe edge band /bwasunched back by the same unseen force. Hended with a ground–shaking thud, growling, furious, bhis /bbmassive /bbws /bdigging trenches into the earth as he tried to force his way through.

    Both of them. Jude and Cideon, rammed into the invisible energy like madmen.

    Neither could pas

    “They bcan’t /bget through.” I murmured.

    “That’s the edge of the bLaune /bAcademy territory, Healer bAran /bsaid from the side, his voice grim. “There’s a protective boundary No une with the intration to leave the Academy territory can cross it. Not even instructors”

    “bBar /bGrace just fell through A

    bshe /bdid

    tend to leave and dw was not rted to the Academy in any way. So this rule didn’t apply to her,” he met my er and then others frowning at the unknown fact about the Academy. She was taken by a rogue that also could not be cauruled by territory of its w

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    that rogue know toe bthat /bway?

    That’s when a cry rang out. “We bcaught /bone”

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    A border patrol wolf arrived dragging a half–conscious rogue, bloodied but alive. He was snarling and writhing as Alpha Hugo marched over and mmed bhim /bagainst a tree.

    “WHERE DID THEY TAKE HER?! Hugo bellowed, his fist tightening around the rogue’s throat.

    The rogue grinned with bloodied teeth. Remaining silent.

    Cassius stepped forward. “These fucking rogues never open their mouth easily. We don’t have time for this!”

    “FUCK, TELL ME IF YOU DON’T WANT TO DIE!” Alpha Hugo nearly ripped his ear off to make him speak.

    Until, blike /ba phantom from the trees, Ryker appeared.

    Shirtless. Bandaged. Quiet.

    Deadly.

    Without ba /bword, he yanked the rogue from Hugo’s grasp band /bbegan beating him. It wasn’t a fight. It wasn’t interrogation. It

    bwas /bdestruction.

    One punch. A rib cracked.

    A knee dislocated. A femur snapped.

    w. A scream finally ripped from the rogue’s lips,

    Blood sprayed like red mist.

    In five bseconds/b, he was nothing but pulp. The sight made the other Alphas stiffen in dread.

    -Stop, Ryker. He’ll die,” bAlpha /bHugo growled. “He’s the only one that knows where Grace was taken!” he growled.

    Only Ryker bhad /balready bbroken /bhim. He byanked /bhis head as if about to snap it from its torso and asked in a very low band /bchilling tone, “So, where did your people take her?”

    The

    Fogue

    whimpered blood and teeth falling from his mouth when he finally confessed. “N–Nightshade Alley…”

    Dead silence followed it

    Complete and utter silence fell over the clearing. While I nced around all the clueless.

    The name seemed to bhave /bsent ba /bspike of bshocks /bthrough every Alpha’s heart. Even Ronan looked unsettled.

    “Nightshade Alley..“Alpha Jude stopped breathing.

    “They took her where?” Gideon’s eyes widened

    “What is Nightshade Alley?” I whispered under bmy /bbreath but the four Alphas heard me bclearly/b. Their reaction actually

    started to clue me in

    Pluma wispered in my mind, rmed, “Could it be a ce dut a man should know?”

    My muscles tightened Could it make them suspect me?

    hispered to me. “Nightshade Alley is a rogue–run underground brothel buried in the darkest corners of the wild

    A bce /bwhere she wolves are sold ruined used and discarded like meat. It’s an abyss of nightmares,”

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