Reclaimed
CHAPTER 79

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Chapter 79

They locked eyes for a few seconds and Aurora reacted first. She jumped at him, kicked off his knife and tackled him to the ground. Kaelan let out a painful gasp as Aurora twisted his arm to his back.

“Aurora! It’s me!” Kaelan cried.

“I know it’s you!” Aurora hissed, “What are you doing by my bed side with a knife!”

Kaelan stared back at Aurora with a shocked look, “W–What are you talking about? It’s your knife! You always keep a knife under your pillow while sleeping. Remember?”

Aurora glanced at the knife that had dropped to the ground.

Kaelan was right. It was indeed her knife. It was an old habit of her to keep a weapon nearby when she was asleep.

“OK. But what were you doing with it? And what were you even in my tent?” Aurora snapped.

Kaelan’s body shivered.

At first Aurora thought he was shaking in fear, but then she discovered that it was because of shock and anger.

“Are you suspecting me?!” Kaelan snarled with a hurtful voice, “You think I was–was trying to do something to you with that knife? Are you fucking crazy Aurora? Doubting me like that? Do you have any idea how ridiculous that is?!”

He sounded generously mad.

Aurora loosened her grip slightly but still kept him kneeling on the ground, “Then why did you come into my tent?”

“I was taking my switch of the night watch! I passed by your tent and wanted to check on you. I saw you asleep and that dagger was only an inch away from your face. I was afraid that it might cut you in your sleep, so I took it and wanted to put it somewhere else!”

Aurora froze on her spot for a few seconds and finally released Kaelan.

Yet Kaelan didn’t stand up from the ground. He looked up to her with a deeply traumatized look.

“I can’t believe you actually thought I would kill you…” he murmured in astonishment.

Aurora didn’t feel so good about this either, “Sorry. 1–I have been edgy for too long and I overreacted. I thought you were going to do something after I decided to tell Damien about your identity…”

She met with Kaelan’s sad eyes and stopped talking.

“Th–This is absurd. Before I told you my secret, you would trust me with your back in the battlefield. Yet now you can’t even stand me standing by your bedside…” Kaelan choked, “Is your trust completely gone? Is there nothing I can do now?”

Aurora let out a long sigh.

Her heart wanted to believe in Kaelan, yet her mind urged her to do the opposite. She was not simply Aurora Manning. She was also the Gamma of Ever Moon Pack, responsible for thousands of soldiers‘ lives.

If she trusted the wrong person, she couldn’t bear with the consequence.

“I am fine, and you saw it already, Kaelan. Now go back to your night watch,” she said exhaustedly.

Yet Kaelan didn’t listen to her this time.

He grabbed the knife on the floor hastily. Instead of pointing it at her, he directed it at his belly region.

“None of these would happen if I weren’t a rogue right?” he hissed, clenching the knife, “Do you want me to gouge out the brand they left me with? Will that make you trust me again?”

“Drop the knife!” Aurora bellowed.

Yet he cut himself with that knife instead. His shirt soon became red with blood.

“I didn’t want to lie to you. But I hate it more when you look at me with those doubtful eyes,” he chocked. “Maybe it was a mistake coming to the Ever Moon Pack. Maybe I should let the rogues kill me years ago…”

Aurora felt her chest contracted with grief. Her vision became blurred with tears.

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Chapter 79

Just then, a series of footsteps came from outside the tent. Before any of them could react, a tall figure burst into the tent hastily.

It was Damien.

“What the hell happened!” he growled, his eyes scanning the room.

With the blood and the knife, it sure looked like a crime scene.

“We were just talking-“Aurora said weakly.

“Talking with a fucking blade?” Damien walked up to Aurora with one step and examined her face closely, “Are you hurt?“”

Aurora shook her head. She looked towards Kaelan and sighed, “Go back to your shift.”

Kaelan stood stiffly on his spot, staring at them with gloomy eyes. Blood was still dripping down from his fingertips.

Aurora took out a roll of bandage from her back and placed it in Kaelan’s pocket, “Go wrap yourself up.”

He still didn’t move.

“Leave us. Now,” Damien spoke up eventually.

His voice was deep with majesty, making Kaclan quivered and caving into his Alpha aura.

Dropping the knife, Kaelan turned and left the tent holding his head down.

“So,” Damien turned to Aurora with his gaze turning soft, “You want to tell me what happened?”

“Can we not do it here?” Aurora said with a muffled voice. The tent smelt like Kaelan’s blood, which was making her feel blue.

“Come with me.”

Damien took her hand and led her out of the tent.

They crossed the camping area, made it through the dark forest and eventually arrived at a small hill.

The night breeze was cool and gentle up there. And without the blocking of tree branches, they got to see the silver moon hanging on the sky.

“Wow,” Aurora let out a gasp of amazement.

Damien stood by her side and looked up to the sky with her, “I have always wanted to do this with you…..Bathed under the silver moonlight in a peaceful night with nothing but the sound of birds and wind around us.”

Aurora felt her heart swelled and she smiled, “Too bad we are not back at the packhouse.”

They stood there quietly for a long time, taking in this beautiful scenery in silence.

And Aurora spoke up eventually, “There is something about Kaelan I haven’t told you.”

“What about him?” Damien asked.

Taking in a deep breath, Aurora told him the secret about Kaelan, “I know I might be acting naïve here but I really do trust him. I don’t think he is the mole.”

Damien stayed in silence for a while and said slowly, “Well, me neither.”

“Not even after you know that he is a rogue?” Aurora asked in disbelief,

She thought Damien would react much stronger towards this.

“No. I don’t think he is capable of harming you,” Damien glanced at Aurora. “He cares about you maybe a little too

Aurora Jet out a long sigh of relief.

Having Damien here to back her up really eased off her stress.

“Then who is it then? The mole?” Aurora rubbed her hair frustratedly, “I can’t believe we are starting this internal fight even before the actual war breaks out. That Rogue King really does have a few cards up in his sleeves. Frankly, I can’t trust anyone right now but you.”

Damien gazed into the distance. After a long pause, he said slowly, “I have a guess about the mole.”

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“What?” Aurora gasped looking up at him.

Damien was a steady person.

When he said that he had a “guess,” good chances were he was already 90% sure of this.

“Well, who is it?” Aurora demanded eagerly.

Damien lowered his upper body and whispered a name into Aurora’s ear.

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