FreeNovelChapter 0322
| watch Grace go to the shower, listening as she turns on the water. Thank the Goddess she finally woke up.
When | called Rik earlier, he assuredthat it's not uncommon for females to be knocked unconscious when
they are marked, but neither he nor Liam had that with their Guardians. However, neither of them were on the
run, exhausted, half-starved and emotionally distraught at the tthey were marked either.
I'm thankful she doesn’t hateright now. | had shorrible flashbacks to the twhen | tried to force the
mate mark on Cara. | know the situations were different, but | can’t lose Grace. | wasn't joking when | said |
never thought I'd be given a fated mate. With everything that has happened in my life, | didn’t think | deserved
one. It just goes to show that the Goddess has a plan, even if we don’t know what it is.
| clean up while Grace showers. She takes quite awhile and I'm not sure if this is a common thing for her or if
she’s avoiding me.
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When she finally comes out, | grab my things and head into the bathroom. | didn’t have many clothes to begin
with and I've lost son this journey. I'll need to figure out how to pay for new ones soon, along with
everything else.
My plan is to take Grace to my old pack lands, the Silver Dawn Pack. | had started to rebuild it when I planned to
take Cara as a mate. It still needs a lot of work, but it has beca place where rogues can go for a second
chance, a sanctuary of
sorts.
| had called myself their Alpha and they had followed me. Many were killed in the battle against the Canyon
Ridge Pack when | kidnapped Cara. Any that acted like true rogues, those that killed indiscriminately or couldn't
abide by the hierarchy of the pack, were banished or killed. What is left, are those that are able to fight, and
those that are willing to be a part of a pack again.
There are too many stories of rogues that are on their own, simply because they cfrom poorly run packs
that had overbearing or cruel Alphas. Grace's story and mine are not isolated incidents. There are so many
rogues that are packless. through no fault of their own. | created a pack, a place where all the individuals. and
families that wanted safety, wanted a place to call home, could cwithout fear.
I haven't been back in a long time. After Cara was rescued, | ran. Then | was caught by Liam and held as his
captive for six months. Now I've been on the run with Grace, keeping her safe. But it’s tto go home. Tfor
Grace to see what
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she’s in for if she decides to accept the mate bond. All | have to offer her is a broken-down pack with a bunch of
misfits trying to make their way in the world.
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I sigh, getting out of the shower, pulling on a pair of shorts. | like feeling Grace's emotions. It has calmed Louis,
but | hope that someday, she will acceptand want to complete the mate bond. | want someone by my side,
helpingto rebuild a place that was broken into something amazing, something that everyone that lives there
can be proud of.
When | walk out of the bathroom, | see that she’s already in the only bed in the room. | don’t want to presume,
so | pull the chairs at the table closer together and prepare to sleep on them.
“What are you doing?” Grace asks me.
“Just getting comfortable.” | say. When | look at her, she’s frowning at me.
“In the chairs?”
| look down at them. Yeah, nothing about them looks comfortable at all.
“I already told you | can’t sleep unless you're lying beside me.” She pats the bed beside her. “I mean, unless you
don’t want to.”
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