Chapter 120 Found You
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My chest heaved as I stood frozen, even though from such a distance I could not know where he was looking or what he was saying. All I knew was he beheaded Juan.
Just as I was distracted for a moment by him, a blur of a black crashed into me, pushing me back just in time, shielding me from a rogue.
I gasped. It was Asher.
His jaws clamped around the rogue’s neck and tore into it like paper. The rogue collapsed in a spray of blood. I blinked, and quickly changed my path before Asher or anyone from the Academy saw me.
I ducked beneath a slashing paw, my own claws raking through a rogue’s chest. Around me, she–wolves fought with a ferocity I’d never seen before. The underground brothel was war–torn and blazing, walls groaning under the heat and blood.
That’s when I heard the elevator.
A low metallic groan that chilled me. I turned just in time to see the cage of steel descending again. That meant someone was coming.
“No…” I whispered as the doors split open with chaos. Dozens more rogues poured out, their target clear: the she–wolves.
Not to kill, but to take. They wanted them back because without the women the brothel was nothing.
“No!” I howled, barreling toward them. Five massive rogues stood in my way, bodies thick with muscle, grins laced with malice. They knew that many of the girls were bruised, bleeding, barely standing. They were easy targets.
I could not let that happen. I stood in their way, ready to take all of them down before they could even touch a hair on those women’s heads but just as I charged at them a shadow fell beside me.
A sleek white wolf raced to my side, her beautiful eyes meeting mine once. I was taken aback for a moment. It was Grace.
She charged at the rogues with me. I ripped off the side of a rogue while she attacked his head, snapping his neck in one go when he was distracted by my attack. Just like that I distracted the rogue and she continued finishing them. Since she was in her wolf form her moves were sharper and faster than mine. Later, she slid like silk between enemies, breaking and blinding them. I came in after, tearing through bone and blood.
They never had a chance to reach the she–wolves.
Behind us, black Alpha wolves from the Academy joined in. All of their aim was protecting the women.
Just when I thought the situation was under our control, the elevator was coming down again.
“No, no, no…” I murmured, looking up.
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The doors began to groan open and more rogues came to attack us.
“It will never end,” Phina growed furiously in my mind, “We are in their alley. In their house!”
I stopped and looked at the women. Escape was their only option. Just as I thought it, Asher’s voice rang in the air.
“Don’t waste your time on a fight,” he stood atop a fallen pillar, blood on his cheek and fire in his eyes, “They’ll keep coming. Find the escape route and run!”
“What escape route?!” Reed shouted back, teeth bared, “There’s no exit except the elevator! And the elevator is-”
Boom.
A gas tank flew through the air and hit the elevator. The explosion shook the floor.
Dust. Flame. Screams.
When it cleared, we all stared at Finn, his eyes dark, his breathing erratic.
“There,” he pointed behind the destroyed shaft. Through the haze and cracked stone, a dark tunnel mouth revealed itself.
“Run!” Finn growled, “It would lead you out of the Alley!!”
I gasped. Out of the Alley? How did he know? Could it be that he had remembered the brothel map?”
My heartbeat quicked with a thrill.
“Run!” I shouted to the she–wolves slashing at a rogue trying to grab a she–wolf’s arm. “Now!”
The she–wolves didn’t hesitate. They ran without looking back, some in tears and some still in fear. But none of them stopped.
Every rogue that tried to follow them, I killed.
Blood on my arms. Blood on my legs. My body was failing but my will was stronger. The Academy Alphas fought on the other side, covering those last few escapes.
The building cracked and groaned, pillars crashing, ceilings falling.
That’s when I heard Alpha Jude’s voice through the chaos, “The fire’s spreading fast! All the she–wolves are out, we’re leaving too!”
Before any of them could see me, I hid behind a pillar.
Finn and Asher exchanged a look and nodded grimly before sprinting toward the tunnel. Alpha Jude disappeared last with Grace in hand.
The tunnel swallowed them all. I leaned against a broken pillar, my chest rising and falling.
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Everyone was gone. Though I could not follow them. I could not leave because…everyone had left the brothel except him…
“Ronan,” I breathed, turning toward the east side where fire licked the ceiling. That was where he’d gone, “He was not among us. Where did he go?” I whispered, legs already moving, “East is already on fire. So where was he? Could he be stuck in the fire?” my heart dropped in my stomach.
“Ronan!” I screamed, dodging falling beams, smoke choking my lungs.
Where was he? Why did he never come back?
Just as I reached the base of the stairs, a pillar caught in fire was about to fall on me, when a strong arm wrapped around my waist and yanked me back.
I screamed, thrashing wildly, thinking it was a rogue.
Then I felt it.
The heat of his body, his possessive and protective grip and his masculine scent.
It was him. My back slammed into his chest. “I am here,” he whispered.
Breathing hard, I tilted my head up to find Ronan bathed in the blood. My heart drummed in my chest and I quickly turned to him, still in his arms. “Where were you?”
A sudden explosion outside the Sinspire Brothel and the howls of rogues answered my question. My eyes snapped up only to find the entire Sinspire Brothel was on fire not just from the inside but the outside. Not only the brothel around the Sinspire but all the brothels in Nightshade Alley were in flames!
My eyes widened and mouth gaped as I slowly glanced up at Ronan in disbelief, “Did you…set the entire Alley on the fire?”
I could not believe my own words but the fire in his violet eyes was telling me he really did.
He reached out to pull the veil on my face slightly down and smiled, “You were running in the fire, screaming my name. Were you worried for me?”
My heart skipped a beat as a heat rushed
