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Neah.
"Hi Eric." I mutter as he slips in my room. "Is everything okay?"
"It's fine." He mutters, locking the door. "Dane just wants you to stay here for now."
"Why?"
"No particular reason."
'He's lying.' Nyx mutters
'I know.' I spit back
Eric doesn't look at me as he moves around the room and checks the windows.
"You know if someone wants to get in, they can just break the glass."
He avoids my gaze.
"It's back isn't it? The Rogue Lycan. That's why you are here and Damien has gone."
He gives me a weak smile. "It wasn't that long ago that you didn't really say what was on your mind. Keeping your thoughts to yourself and not wanting to know the truth."
"Dane has gone after it, hasn't he?"
"He's with Damien and Klaus, yes."
"Dane told me what Damien said about the Rogue. How they like to play games? If you are checking everything is locked, you think it's going to come here, don't you? You think it's going to come for me?" "It's just a precaution. We don't know what it wants."
"Where?"
Eric doesn't answer me.
"Eric, tell me."
"It was at the hospital. It has Raven."
"What? Why?" I stare at him, why hadn't he just told me that in the first place?
'He's not stupid, he knows you will want to help.' Nyx murmurs
"I don't know. All I know is that it was at the hospital when Raven linked Dane." "And?"
"It's taken her into the forest. Neah, Dane wants you to stay here."
"It's a Lycan." I mutter
"A Rogue Lycan." Eric replies. "You can't do anything, it doesn't listen to anyone."
"But Damien thinks he can help?" I frown
Eric's shoulders drop.
"There's something you haven't told me. What is it?"
"The Rogue is Damien's brother." He looks over at me. "I don't know the ins and outs. But this is not the first time he has gone after Raven."
I stumble back, sitting on the bed. I could feel my own deep frown, annoyed that this had been kept from me. Why hadn't Damien said anything? Or my own mate. Raven was my friend. I march over to the closet, pulling out some boots.
"Neah, you can't, you have to stay here. The twins."
"I am not leaving her!"
"Think of the twins!"
"I am. Do you think it's just going to stop if it kills Raven? What about all the children in the pack? They will be easy targets and I would have just stood aside and let it happen!"
He blocks the door. "I can't let you go, Neah. Danes orders!"
"Move Eric!"
"I need to protect you."
"Then come with me." I glare at him.
"Dane is going to kill me." He mutters as he steps to one side
"Then don't let anything happen to me." I snap as I stride through the door.
Eric follows me through the house, insisting that this is a mistake.
I swing around to face him.
"Maybe it is, but Raven doesn't deserve this. They were all turned because of me. And now, because there is one that has taken it too far, she might die. I can't let that happen, Eric. If she hadn't been around when Veronica drugged me, I wouldn't be here today. So please, be on my side and help me find her."
He nods his head at me and we quickly make our way down to the forest.
I step into the forest quietly and ask Nyx to block Dane. I knew he had asked me not to do that, but I didn't need him worrying about me when his sister was missing. Only Eric is to know I am here.
Moving quickly, my legs seemed to know exactly where I wanted to go, carrying me without question.
I'm not sure how far we have travelled before I hear a scream. A scream that sounded like Raven.
"Are you sure about this?" Eric whispers, grabbing my arm.
I nod, "I have to try," and charge forward leaving Eric behind
I could hear Damien talking. It took me a moment to see him, high in a tree. He was in Lycan form. He could talk in beast form?
'I think there is a lot we haven't been told.' Nyx mutters as I squat behind a bush.
Raven screams again and over in another tree is another Lycan, holding on to her with ease. She's barely fighting and blood splatters onto the ground below her. "SALEM! This isn't a fucking game!" Damien roars at him.
Salem, did he seriously just call him Salem?
'As in her first mate?' Nyx asks curiously.
'But he was a Wolf?'
'Has she ever mentioned that?' Nyx murmurs
'Are you saying that she knew and didn't tell anyone?'
'No. Think about it. You said she told you he rejected her once he found out who her pack was. What if someone from Moonshine told him to stay clear?'
I look up as Raven screams again. The Rogue Lycan has its teeth buried around her waist. It was killing her right in front of Damien. I couldn't take it anymore.
I step out from my hiding spot. "Let her go."
The Rogue removes its teeth from Raven to look at me.
"Let her go!" I repeat.
"Gladly." He drops her. There is a blur of movement as Damien dives down from the tree to try and catch her before she slams against the ground.
The Rogue lands in front of me. Standing up to his full height and looming over my small frame.
"You are the female Alpha." It snorts. "What is so special about you?"
"Nothing."
It lets out a gargled laugh, locking its beady eyes on me. "You protect Wolves? How noble." "You're Salem?" I ask. For some unknown reason, I felt no fear, staring into the eyes of death. "I am."
"You were mated to her? You were the one who was mated to Raven?"
"WHAT?!" I hear from behind me. I don't move a muscle, if I looked to see what Damien was doing, it would be a mistake. Dane had told me that. Dane had said not to look away if I came face to face with it. "Once upon a time." The Rogue growls.
"You rejected her."
"I did. Wolves and Lycans don't mix." He snarls at me, bloody drool dribbles from its jaws. "Though Wolves do taste delicious." He runs his tongue along his teeth.
"Was it your choice, or were you told to reject her?"
"Like I said, wolves and Lycans don't mix."
"You won't touch them." I stare back at him.
He lets out that gargled laugh again "You think you can stop me?"
"I've killed Lycans." I knew my eyes were darkening as I stare at him
He laughs again, but this time, it's not as gargled and sounds more sceptical
"Because you are some almighty Alpha? That doesn't work with Rogues."
'Tell him. He hasn't figured it out.' Nyx mutters gleefully.
I stare up into his beady eyes, "I am your Alpha whether you like it or not, Salem."
He growls at me and takes a step back. "I don't go by that name anymore and you will never be my Alpha."
"You are a product of a Moonshine Lycan, that makes me your Alpha." I hated using the term, but right now, it was needed and without Nyx, I probably wouldn't be standing here. "You can't deny that. You feel it. You know I outrank you whether you want me to or not." "I am a Rogue."
"Keep telling yourself that."
"I will kill you."
I don't respond as Damien creeps up behind him, forcing his claws through Salem's back before dragging them down through his skin.