Chapter 0045
“We’ll keep an eye out. Anyone with medical supplies, check on the fallen.”
One of them turned.
“We need to get him back toward the carriage,” said, nodding towards the guard who was leaning on one of the trees, panting and bleeding from his side.
“Violet, cover me.”
She said nothing, but I felt her following me toward him. One of the wolves lunged, but I didn’t even flinch. It was cut out of the air by Violet’s attack. I shoved back the rogue that had my warrior pinned and hefted him up.
I tossed him to the nearest warrior to get back to the carriage and turned back. Violet was already jumping back into it, and another wave of howls filled the air. They had to be reinforcements for the rogues, and I shook my head.
“Well, I’ll be damned…” One of the warriors said. “What kind of woman are you marrying, alpha?”
I laughed. “A warrior.
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A better warrior than me, for sure. The few groups of rogues I’d faced had always been smaller groups of rogues that hadn’t been so far gone. Some of them had been violent, but they hadn’t been murderous. After a bit of fighting, they were usually calm enough to talk to. All the other times, they reacted well to me, and there was no need to fight.
I figured out sometime in my teens that it had been because my mother had still been without pack bonds when she birthed me, and most rogues if they weren’t too far gone, could smell it on me. They considered me one of them.
Admittedly, I had also slacked off in training while at the Academy as a form of rebellion against my father.
The chaos of the battle engulfed us, the snarls of the rogues filled the air in between grunts of exertion. I tried to keep an eye on Violet, but every time I glanced her way, I was struck by the sight of her. She was a force of nature, her daggers flashing in the dim light as she fought with an intensity that took my breath away.
She moved like a whirlwind, quick and fierce, dodging and slashing with precision. I’d seen strong fighters before, but she fought with experience. She practically danced around them. The fact that she was moving like that despite the broken bond was just another thing to be amazed by.
It also made me suspicious. Seeing her recall the dagger with ease had been a surprise. Even if It was a magical weapon, most wolves couldn’t use them to their full potential. It was possible that they had come from beyond the border and thus followed a different set of rules, but I wasn’t convinced of that. She wouldn’t have pulled them out if it were that kind of secret, so
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she much have been using them at the Academy.
Did she have magic, too? Did she know that she had magic? Maybe that’s why the bond felt like it was reaching out to me.
Maybe that’s why the sex had been so fucking amazing, too.
“On your left!”
I snarled and deflected a wolf’s attack and slammed my dagger into its chest, killing it instantly. Violet dispatched another rogue, her eyes took on a soft, familiar glow, but I couldn’t tell if that was her wolf or just magic.
“Keep pushing!” I shouted, urging my warriors to maintain the pressure on the rogues.
“Don’t let them outflank us!” I barked at the guard to my left before another wolf lunged at me. I dispatched it quickly, but my gaze flicked back to Violet as she gutted another wolf, swiped a shield from my guard and charged forward, sending a large rogue flying back into a rock.
By then, the numbers had evened out a little more. Another howl sounded and they all turned and started to flee. One of my guards started to run after them.
“No,” Violet said. “You go into their territory, you’re as good as ambushed.”
She flicked her blade free of blood. Her eyes scanned the area. Then I felt something. An instinct. She looked up. Her eyes aglow, her dagger raised as if to throw it and looked just over my head to where the carriage was.
“Get down!”
