I shoved Darek as hard as I could, my eyes bulging out of their sockets, my breath coming out in furious pants.
"What did you do? You can teleport now?" I scread in half fury and half disbelief. "You kidnapped ...again! You..you think you can do anything like I’m just so thing you own?"
He didn’t even flinch as I spat the words on his face. Of course, he wouldn’t. He just stood there with his jaw set, breathing controlled, and looking like he was out here taking a stroll in the woods and chanced upon by accident. The fresh night air clung to both of us, and if it wasn’t for that particular situation, I would have even enjoyed it.
"Maeve, listen–"
"No! I don’t want to listen to anything you say. I don’t want to look at you, I don’t even want to breathe the sa air as you."
"Just stop yelling before they find us and co to take you back again," he snapped, his teeth clenching and his last shred of patience draining from his body.
"Oh really? You’re worried about my safety now?"
"I’m worried about the both of us. I don’t want them corrupting you again back there underground."
"You do realise it’s you who’s corrupting , right?"
Darek rolled his eyes as he let out an audible exhale. "Okay, that’s it. We need to get to the White Hall first. Kinley will be there."
I stopped in my tracks. Kinley.
According to Avelora, Kinley was supposed to be their most successful and trusted inside man. Darek...he couldn’t know. He probably didn’t know that with the way he trusted Kinley and called for him every ti.
My face smoothed instantly, my anger draining away.
There was still a chance.
I was tired of escaping Darek but if I played it right, I could still be a part of the Rebellion as long as I got back to Kinley again. There was still a chance I could return to Valden and the others.
He could save .
"Kinley?" I asked carefully, making sure to keep the eagerness out of my voice. "Why should we et him?"
"Because we just got mated under questionable circumstances. So both of us need to get tested, and we need him to assess the bond. And also because we need him to help figure out our plans going forward."
I let a beat pass, pretending to think about it before sighing in defeat.
"Fine. Let’s go."
Darek stared at , suspicion flickering in his eyes as it raked up and down my face. "Just like that?"
"Just like that," I said eting his gaze calmly. "You want to talk to Kinley? Let’s go do that. I need to know how bad my situation is, being mated to you right now. And if there is a way to get rid of this bond between us, rest assured I’ll find it, Darek."
He wasn’t convinced. I could tell. The way that his shoulders stiffened and his eyes lingered on my face for a little too long...he knew I was plotting sothing. But he finally shook his head and gestured for to follow.
We didn’t change back into our wolves this ti as we made our way out into the lights again. But Darek moved like he knew every path and every root and crevice of the woods. If I had ever lost sight of him I was sure I would get lost in no ti.
By the ti the pale spires of the White Hall building appeared, the moon still hung above it like a glowing erald stone.
And Kinley was right there, waiting outside the doors like he expected us. His coat was rumpled, his glasses looked slightly crooked, and his thick and greying brown hair looked like it had been in a state of disarray for quite so ti.
When his eyes finally landed on us, they widened in relief.
"You got out," he breathed. "Thank God, both of you’re alive."
"Can’t believe you doubted it, Kinley," Darek muttered as he brushed past him.
"Yes, well you never know," Kinley’s gaze darted to nervously. "Anyway, we’ve already made all the arrangents you had asked for through your guards. I’ll need Maeve to co with ."
Darek pursed his lips like he wasn’t sure he should let out of his sight so easily after going to all that trouble. But then he seed to think better of it and walked back into a separate lab after giving a nod of appraisal to Kinley and shooting a ’don’t try anything’ glare at .
Kinley gestured to to follow him and I did so, walking through the familiar path of the White Hall where I once walked as a asly Oga.
The mont we entered the lab, he turned around and grabbed my wrists, his eyes wild and skin pale.
"Holy hell, Maeve, what happened? He’s not supposed to be here."
"He sohow got here, I’m not sure how. He also manipulated into completing the mate bond which ans I’m mated to him now under the Green Moon. You need to tell Avelora. Now."
Kinley clenched his eyes shut, rubbing his temple with the tips of his fingers as he realised everything was falling through the cracks.
"Alright, for now, you’ll have to play along and just pretend to be on his side. He trusts you. Just use that to your advantage. I’ll try to contact Avelora as soon as possible and make arrangents. Just don’t let Darek suspect that I’m part of Rebellion. Ever."
I swallowed hard. The idea of pretending to side with Darek made bile rise up my throat. But Kinley was right. If Darek wanted to use , I’d just have to use him first. That was the only way I could see Valden again. The only way I could bring him down.
"He’s unpredictable, Maeve. If he suspects then..."
He didn’t have to finish the sentence. I knew what would happen.
But I was going to play this right this ti.
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