Reclaimed

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Chapter 103

When Aurora and the other disappeared into the distance, people sending them off all returned to the Crimson Fortress.

Except for Angelina.

She stood in the wind and gazed into the darkness, thinking about what Aurora said to her before they left.

About Chloe.

Angelina couldn’t help but asked herself: Did she really place her trust in Chloe too easily?

Nevertheless, Chloe did ask her maids to cut her hands off without a blink of an eye. Could a person that brutal change that completely overnight?

Angelina slowly let out a shaky breath.

If that was the case…

If Chloe had been faking it….

And even worse, if Chloe really had something to do with Veronica’s death…

Then she couldn’t forgive herself for letting Chloe off the hook that easily.

Just then, a strange noise came from her back.

Angelina jerked around and snapped, “Who is there? Step out!”

It had already passed midnight.

No one should be out here at this hour.

A slim figure slowly stepped out of the bush and walked into the moonlight.

It was the same person that Angelina had been thinking about just a moment before.

Chloe.

“What are you doing here?!” Angelina gasped in shock.

Chloe chuckled, “Sending my dear sister off, just like you did. Too bad that I didn’t get a chance to wish her good luck.”

Angelina clenched her fists. She suddenly felt a thrill of foreboding.

“How did you know about this?” she growled.

Their plan was supposed to be a secret! She even waited for Chloe to turn in before leaving their tent.

So how did Chloe find out about everything?

Chloe seemed to enjoy the furious look on Angelina’s face a lot.

She giggled and took another step forward.

“Oh, I know about a lot of things,” she said. “I know that Aurora and Damien are going to the Great Canyon, which is practically suicide. I also know that you won’t be able to boss me around like a fucking slave any longer. And most importantly, I know that—”

She grinned flashing her teeth, with a twinkle of joy in her eyes.

-you are doomed now.”

Suddenly a sharp pain pierced Angelina’s body and she fell.

Crushed to the ground, Angelina curled her body in agony and struggled to look around.

Layla was standing by her side, holding a baseball bat, which was the weapon that she just hit Angelina with.

“Y–You-”

Angelina breathed heavily, gritting her teeth.

“It was you A–And-”

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-And me,” said a deep voice behind her back.

Silas stepped out of the dark shadows and walked over. His lips curled in triumph as he looked down at Angelina.

“I bet that you didn’t see this coming, did you?” Silas smiled.

Angelina glared at him. She wanted to jump up and attack him. But she couldn’t move. Layla must have broken her rips when she hit her with that

bat.

Silas lifted a foot and stomped on Angelina’s shoulder, enjoying her humiliated face.

“This is the fatal weakness of you guys,” he laughed. “You are always too gullible. Too eager to believe that people have changed. That weakness makes you overlook certain things.”

“You… You killed Veronica!” Angelina cried hoarsely.

“Well, you caught me there, even though a bit late.”

Silas shrugged.

“What am I supposed to do? Veronica was going to tell Aurora on me. I couldn’t let her do that.”

He moved his feet to Angelina’s neck, adding more pressure to it. Angelina’s face was quickly turning red in suffocation.

“It won’t work…You still won’t win…”

Angelina uttered, struggling.

“Aurora…and Damien…they are coming at you…. They–they are strong-

Silas burst into laughter.

“Oh you really have faith in them, don’t you? OK, I admit it. Alpha Damien is the strongest werewolf I have ever met. I probably won’t last 10 seconds with him if we are at a one–on–one showdown. But so what? I am still going to be the last man standing because I can outsmart him.”

Angelina clenched his ankle in agony. She couldn’t breathe anymore under the pressure that Silas put on her neck.

“Remember that box of snacks that you gave Aurora?” Silas asked with

a smile.

Angelina’s body twitched. She was choking.

they are now.”

I asked Chloe to add a litle something extra into their s snacks.

If

Rage seized Angelina’s heart.

they eat those and they will because they trust you, they won’t be as strong as

This fucking bastard-

“You seem mad,” Silas chuckled. “But shouldn’t you be more mad at yourselves? You caused Veronica’s death. And soon, you will cause Aurora and Damien’s death as well.”

He stomped on Angelina’s neck hard.

Angelina’s eyes rolled to the back, and she passed out.

*Should we hide her body somewhere?” Layla asked.

“Just leave her here. We are going back to the Great Canyon today. There is no need to hide our tracks any longer.”

Silas dusted off his hands and beckoned to Chloe.

Chloe walked over and cringed against his arms like a docile sheep.

“That thing you asked me to put into their snacks… What is it?” Chloe asked curiously. “Is it poison? Is it going to kill them all before they get to the Great Canyon?

“No poison is strong enough to kill a werewolf, silly girl.” Silas said idly. “It is something much better.It is Layla’s blood.”

Chloe was shocked and disappointed.

“Her blood?” she cried, “What can her blood do? Kill them? If it can’t do that, then you had wasted a golden opportunity to-”

She suddenly quivered.

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Because she just found Silas staring at her with a dark face.

“Careful, my mate, I don’t like to be questioned,” Silas hissed. “If you are coming to my kingdom with me, remember one thing. That I am the King. And you are my subject.”

“…Yes, my king,” Chloe whispered in fear.

“And you will see what Layla’s blood can do to them when we get back to the Great Canyon. The rogue’s blood has special powers. You will find out about that soon.”

He rubbed Chloe’s hair like petting a lap dog.

“Let us hit the road.”

Silas smiled and gazed to the north.

His eyes were gleaming with excitement.

“My dear guest…my arch nemesis Alpha Damien…is waiting for us.”

It took the group one full day before arriving at the Great Canyon. They moved as fast as they could and only stopped for a few times to have some water and snacks.

Before going into the Great Canyon, they also had a complete makeover under Kaelan’s instruction. They had to make sure that their outfits and appearances could fit into the rogue’s crowd.

Angelina once told Aurora that the Great Canyon was in fact a black market.

And she was exactly right about that.

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In the shadowy underbelly of the canyon, nestled amidst crumbled buildings and hidden alleyways, lied this mysterious market, a hub of illicit trade where the forbidden met the desperate.

Within this eerie place, rare and dangerous stuffs changed hands.

Aurora saw shops selling fresh werewolf organs, handcrafted weapons, strange medicines such as Elixir, Aphrodisiac, fatal poisons and etc.

She also saw cages lying by the streetside with little

pups locked up inside.

“This is human trafficking!”

Aurora whispered into Kaelan’s ear furiously as they walked down the hectic main road.

“Can’t we do something about this?”

“Actually, it is not as simple as it seems.” Kaelan whispered back. “Those pups are trained thieves. If you buy them off, they will rob your house and return to the seller with all your money by the next day. It is a common trick in the rogue’s world.”

Aurora let out a long sigh internally.

They spread out and did some field work.

They would pretend to be interested in something and started a casual conversation with the vendor, asking them if they knew anything about the Rogue King.

But their efforts proved to be in vain.

“Nobody knew anything about the Rogue King!”

Glen hissed frustratedly to them after an hour of talking to people.

“They all have different stories. Some said that Rogue King is a hideous old woman, and some said it is a handsome man. And there is something even more ridiculous–hear this–one guy told me that the Rogue King is a beautiful woman with a killer body, and she only became king because she had fucked every man in the rogue’s world!”

“This is a nightmare,” Jared rubbed his temples with a wry smile. “I doubt if they have really met the Rogue King before.”

“Most of them haven’t,” Karlan said. “The Rogue King lives in the Grace Ruin, which only the true rogues have access to.”

Damien tapped his finger on the table.

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“It is simple then.”

He said in a deep voice.

“We should take the test and become the true

rogues ourselves.”

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