His Moonsilver Mate (Abby and Kade) novel Chapter 45

Chapter 45

Sloane

By the time they stopped asking questions, I wasn’t sure how long I had been in the chair.

My wrists had gone numb beneath the leather straps. My shoulders ached from being held the same position, and every time I let my head fall forward, someone made me lift it again,

At some point, I had started repeating myself.

Names.

Places.

People.

The same answers until I wasn’t even sure which questions I was responding to anymore.

A hand tapped my cheek.

Not hard.

Just enough to drag me back.

“Sloane.”

I blinked.

Cressida stood in front of me.

Her face came slowly into focus.

“Stay awake.”

I swallowed.

My mouth was dry.

“I told you.”

My voice barely sounded like mine.

Cressida watched me.

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I turned my head toward him.

was leaning against the wall as if he had been watching something mildly entertaining instead of hours of interrogation.

I hated him.

He pushed away from the wall.

“Abigail Hayes,” he said. “Eighteen. Recently shifted. Beta’s little sister. Alpha’s mate.”

My stomach tightened.

Jax kept going.

“Brown hair. Blue-gray eyes. Lives in Moonhaven. Kade keeps her close.”

The Rogue King stood near the other side of the room.

He had barely spoken for most of the interrogation.

That had been worse somehow.

Every time I looked at him, Rhea stirred weakly beneath the silver suppressing her.

Mate.

I shut her out.

Jax looked toward him.

“That’s the girl.”

The Rogue King’s expression didn’t change.

“It means nothing.”

Jax frowned.

“She’s important.”

“To Kade.”

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“I have a picture.”

My stomach dropped.

I remembered sending it.

Abby walking away from the clinic.

Nothing special about the photo.

Just enough for Jax to know who to take.

He held out his phone.

The Rogue King looked at the screen for less than a second.

Then he handed it back.

“An eighteen-year-old girl.”

Jax’s jaw tightened.

“She’s the one I was hired to take.”

“And?”

Jax glanced at me.

“She’s protected constantly now. They moved her into the packhouse. Kade nearly tore Moonhaven apart looking for her.”

The Rogue King looked bored.

“Again. That tells me Kade wants her.”

Cressida turned toward him.

“She recently shifted.”

“So do thousands of wolves.”

Her expression cooled.

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“What color is her wolf?”

Nhesitated.

The room seemed to sharpen around me.

“Gray.”

“What kind of gray?”

“I don’t know.”

His expression hardened.

“You don’t know?”

“I haven’t seen her shifted.”

Jax looked at me.

“You were there when she changed.”

“No.”

I forced myself to keep my voice steady.

“I heard about it.”

The Rogue King stared at me.

“Heard what?”

“That her wolf is gray.”

“From whom?”

“People.”

A humorless smile touched his mouth.

“Useful.”

I looked away.

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“No. It’s gossip.”

“She matches enough.”

The Rogue King’s attention shifted to him.

“Enough for what?”

Jax spread his hands.

“She’s eighteen. Newly shifted. Kade is hiding her. Sloane paid me to remove her before any of us

knew what she was.”

My head snapped toward him.

“That had nothing to do with her wolf.”

“I know.”

Jax smiled.

“That’s what makes it interesting.”

The Rogue King said nothing.

Jax continued.

“You keep saying she could be anyone. Fine. Then see her.”

Silence settled over the room.

I looked at him.

Cressida did too.

The Rogue King’s expression sharpened slightly.

Jax nodded toward me.

“She knows Moonhaven.”

My stomach turned.

“No.”

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“She knows the packhouse. The patrols. The people. She lived there.”

“I said no.”

This time the Rogue King looked at me.

Jax smiled.

“She can get us inside.”

“No.”

My voice cracked.

I pulled against the straps even though there was nowhere to go.

“You can’t.”

The Rogue King’s brows lifted.

“Can’t?”

“They’ll catch me.”

“Probably.”

His answer stopped me.

I stared at him.

“If I go back, Kade will know.”

“Kade already thinks you betrayed him.”

My throat tightened.

“He’ll have me arrested.”

“Perhaps.”

I shook my head.

“No.”

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I looked at Cressida.

She said nothing.

At Jax.

He was smiling again.

“I can’t just walk back into Moonhaven,” I said. “They know what I did.”

The Rogue King stopped in front of me.

Then his mouth curved.

“Who said you were going alone?”

My skin went cold.