The Rejected True Heiress (Liora and Callum) novel Chapter 230

Bianca complained the entire way down, of course. She kept having to stop to catch her breath or make Jessica clean the scuffs off her pink boots when she slipped on the stones. Marcus looked like he was resisting the urge to push her down into the ravine himself.

At the bottom of the ravine, while Marcus and the Gammas inspected the rogue’s body, I poked around for clues. I spotted some crushed leaves a few feet away and crouched to get a closer look.

“Look at this!” Bianca suddenly shouted, holding something up. “I found a clue.”

We turned to see her holding a scrap of fabric. Callum took it and sniffed it. “It’s got this rogue’s scent on it,” he said. “No one else’s. Probably just ripped during the fall.”

Bianca folded her arms and looked around more. Then, she gasped again and trotted off, pointing. “Footsteps!”

Curious, we followed her. My brows shot up when I saw what she was pointing at.

Rabbit tracks.

“The other rogue must have gone this way,” she said, peering into the bushes. “We should follow these tracks.”

Zane shot me an amused look. I just shook my head and kept looking around. Bianca waved Marcus over and showed him the tracks. From where I stood, I could hear him grunt, “You do realize those are rabbit tracks, right? Not wolf tracks?”

I didn’t bother looking to see her reaction, although I could hear her stammering something out in response. Just then, I spotted it—a patch of murky, slightly muddy dirt.

It hadn’t rained in weeks now.

I crouched down, brushing my fingers across the damp soil. When I pulled them back, they were slightly red and faintly tinged with the scent of copper. Blood. I frowned and looked around, then spotted something else. This time, it was a boot print in the dirt a few paces away. The same boot print we’d followed from the crime scene last night.

I stood to wave the others over, but found Bianca standing right behind me. Her eyes widened, and before I could speak, she whirled around and cupped her hands around her mouth. “Hey! I found something!”

The Gammas came jogging toward us with Marcus at the front. Bianca grinned and pulled aside the underbrush. “Look what I found!” she exclaimed. I stared at her with my hands on my hips, but she pretended not to notice me.

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