His Moonsilver Mate (Abby and Kade) novel Chapter 64

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10:56 Mon, Nov 2 A.

Kade

Chapter 64

Where is she?”

The rogue lifted his head slowly. Blood had dried beneath his nose and along one side of his mouth.

One eye was beginning to swell shut, but he still managed a sinile

“Still asking?”

I stepped closer. “Where is Abigail Hayes?”

His smile widened. “You should’ve kept a better eye on her, Alpha.”

I hit him.

The chair scraped hard across the stone floor.

Liam said my name behind me, but I barely heard him.

The rogue spat blood at my feet. “Didn’t take much to get her out, either.”

Knox slammed against my control.

I grabbed the front of the rogue’s shirt and dragged him forward.

“Where is she?”

He laughed.

Something inside me snapped.

My fingers tightened around his throat. His chair tipped backward as I drove him against the wall.

Knox surged close enough that my vision sharpened and my nails started pressing painfully against ‘my fingertips.

“Kade.” Liam grabbed my shoulder.

Ryan caught my wrist. “Let go.”

“Get off me.”

“You kill him, he takes the location with him.”

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I released him. The chair dropped back onto all four legs. The rogue coughed and laughed again

turned away before I changed my mind.

Ryan moved between us. “I’ve got him.”

I wiped the blood from my knuckles across my jeans. “He knows where they are. Make halk.

Ryan gave me a flat look. “That was already the plan.”

Liam caught my arm before I could turn back toward the chair. “Come on.”

“I’m fine.”

“You nearly shifted in an interrogation room.”

“I said I’m fine.”

“You’re bleeding on the floor.”

I looked down. The rogue’s blood covered my knuckles. Some of it had splashed across the front of

my shirt.

Liam’s eyes unfocused for a second. Then he looked at me again. “Tiernan’s here.”

That pulled me back into the room more effectively than anything else had.

“When?”

“Just arrived.”

I looked once toward Ryan. He had already pulled a chair in front of the prisoner and sat down.

The rogue’s smile was gone.

“Go,” Ryan said. “I’ll send word when he gives me something.”

Liam took me upstairs.

I didn’t remember most of the walk. By the time we reached my room, the worst of Knox’s rage had settled into something heavier.

Liam shut the door behind us. “You’re not going into a meeting looking like that.”

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and wrapped a towel around my split knuckles until the bleeding slowed.

Everything felt mechanical. I turned on the water, washed the blood away, changed my shirt, and kept breathing because there was nothing else to do.

Liam leaned against the doorway. “You good?”

“No.”

He nodded once. “Me neither”

A few minutes later, we headed downstairs.

Tiernan was already in my office with Cole and two Ravenwood warriors. My mother stood near the

end of the table.

Every head turned when I entered.

“Sorry to keep you waiting.”

Tiernan crossed the room and held out his hand. “Kade.”

I took it.

His gaze flicked briefly toward my knuckles, but he didn’t comment.

“I’m sorry.” The words were simple enough that I could accept them. “If we’d gotten here sooner-

“You came as soon as you could.”

His jaw tightened. “Still feels late.”

I understood that too well. Every minute Abby was gone felt late.

Tiernan released my hand. “We’ll find her.”

I wanted to believe him.

“Thank you for coming.”

“You don’t have to thank me.” He gestured toward the men behind him. “You know Cole. These are Mason and Drew. I brought twenty wolves altogether.”

Twenty Ravenwood wolves meant more scouts, more patrol coverage, and more people we could

send out without leaving Moonhaven exposed.

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I looked at him immediately. “Well?”

“He talked.”

The room went still..

“How much?”

“Enough to stop searching blind.” Ryan moved toward the regional map and flattened it across the table. “He confirmed the Rogue King’s base is west of Moonhaven. Outside recognized/pack territory.”

My attention sharpened. “How far west?”

“He wouldn’t give me a distance.”

“What did he give you?”

Ryan traced one of the old roads with his finger. “They don’t use the main routes. They move through the mountains using abandoned logging roads and old service tracks.’

Cole leaned over the map. “That covers a lot of ground.”

“It does.” Ryan tapped farther west. “But he reacted when I pushed him on this area.”

A wide stretch of neutral land sat beyond the last claimed pack border. Forest climbed into mountains. Old roads disappeared into empty spaces marked with abandoned mines, hunting cabins, ruins, and settlements that hadn’t been occupied in decades.

Tiernan frowned. “What kind of reaction?”

“He lied differently.”

Cole looked at him.

Ryan glanced up. “Until then, he denied everything. Didn’t know where the Rogue King was. Didn’t know who moved where. Didn’t know anything about the routes.”

“And then?”

“When I named the western mountain roads, he stopped denying it and started telling me they never went there.”

Which meant they did.

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Tiernan studied the western edge of the map. “How many routes are there?”

“Too many.”

Ryan wasn’t exaggerating.

Several logging roads had been abandoned long enough that newer maps barely showed them. Others split into narrow service tracks that disappeared beneath tree cover before reaching the

mountains.

The Rogue King could hide an entire operation out there without anyone finding it unless they knew exactly what they were looking for. And he had chosen the territory well.

I looked at Ryan. “Do you believe him?”

“About the west? Yes.”

“About the staging point?”

“Yes.”

“Then we start there.”

Tiernan nodded. “I’ll send Ravenwood scouts with yours.”

“Good.” I pointed toward the first three routes that crossed into neutral territory. “Send the first teams now. Experienced trackers only. Everyone else moves at first light.”

Cole studied the map. “What about Moonlraven’s borders?”

“We keep enough wolves here to hold them.”

Liam looked at me. “You think they’ll hit again?”

“I think the Rogue King already has what he came for.”

The words tasted wrong.

Abby.

Ryan’s expression hardened. “Which means the attacks were never the point.”

“No.”

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