#Chapter 82: The Arrest

Agnes Elijah swiftly sent the rogues away, their handcuffs rattling around their wrists as the warriors led them to the pack cells. Once they were out of our sight, I let out a shuddering breath and dropped my hands back to my sides. “I can’t believe that Ava would send four rogues after me,” I breathed, hardly even daring to say the words out loud as if that would somehow make it all that much more real. “I mean, she always hated me, but this…” Before I could finish, Elijah swung toward me and grabbed my shoulders. “She won’t hurt you again, Agnes.” Something in the intensity in his gaze made my breath catch. I opened my mouth to say something, anything, but no words would come out. She won’t hurt you again. Time and time again, Elijah proved just how fiercely loyal he was to me. Even with our relationship being one of necessity and not love, he still cared far more than anyone else ever had. Far more than my own parents had ever cared.