From Rougue To Luna novel Chapter 62

"Thank you for helping mommy." She said in a whisper and my heart stopped, my breath catching as I struggled to pull my face up to look at her.

I finally settled for rolling on my good side and letting my head tilt up as it rested against the floor. I tried to speak again, but nothing came out, so I simply nodded as several more tears streaked down the side of my face.

I heard a loud booming voice, dripping with Alpha authority and felt my body jump painfully in response as it stopped outside of the door.

"If you don't open this fucking door Cage, I will do it myself." the voice said loudly.

After several long moments, the door flew open, blasting off of its hinges as wood splintered into the room. Huntleigh screamed and jumped behind me, my hand reaching around for her to wrap my arm around her protectively. She shrank into my back as close as she could and dug her face into my shoulder as I felt her little body begin to tremble. My eyes snapped up to see a tall man with a figure so large he made the doorway feel smaller as he stomped through it. His dirty blonde hair was cropped at the sides, leaving it long on the top of his head and pulled back tight. His piercing ocean blue eyes searched the room wildly, landing on the huddled mess that was my body lying to the side as Huntleigh pushed tighter into my body, whimpering slightly.

He clenched his bearded jaw and his eyes widened before hardening and turning to snarl at Cage who was now standing board straight and clenching his fists hard at his side as he glared down at me. "So it's true? Where's the other one?"

"She's back beneath the floor boards in a cubby. She's fine." Cage gritted out as his eyes remained locked on me in the floor.

"Show me. Now." The man barked as he squared his shoulders and turned to walk out of the door behind Cage. He paused in the doorway and looked over his shoulders, his nostrils flaring slightly as he eyed us, finally shaking his head and walking through the door and down the hall.

Avery. They're going to get Avery.

Rhett's POV

--A day and a half before--

I growled loudly, taking several pacing steps before my fist collided into the wooden wall behind me, breaking through and splintering the wood around me feet. "How did he get in without us noticing? Who was on guard?"

Asher straightened and clenched his jaw in frustration. "Weston is working on that right now. We should know something soon. It seems he had a gap and saw his moment. He took her. I saw only one set of tracks leaving the path before I grabbed Ivy and ran here as fast as I could. Rhett look." He tilted her head to the side to show a tiny hole in the side of her neck. "She's been injected with something. That bastard drugged her. He probably did the same to Lili. There's no way she would have gone without a fight otherwise."

I closed my eyes tightly, searching with every ounce of strength I could for her. I felt my wolf perk inside of my mind, prancing nervously as his ears pinned back. She was alive. I could feel her through the mark. I didn't know much else, but that was enough for now. She was still alive.

Within a moment, the door opened and a small older woman entered, hurrying to the side of the desk. I'd already sent for the healer through the link as soon as Asher had told me he was on his way. "Move aside gentlemen." She said, rushing over to inspect Ivy as she pulled out her medical bag. "You think she's been injected you said?" She questioned.

Asher and I both nodded yes in tandem and she leaned down, smelling the wound, opening Ivy's eyes, and checking her vitals before reaching into her bag and pulling out a cloudy white vile and a syringe.