dreams whisper through silence by mae 348

Chapter 348 

“What happened to you?” I asked, dropping to a crouch in front of her. 

She just looked at me and trembled, wrapping her arms around her midsection. 

“It’s okay,” I said, placing my hand on her arm. “You’re safe now.” 

Abigail’s eyes filled with tears. She scooched further into the corner, away from my touch. “Please don’t hurt me,” she whispered. 

I frowned. “I’m not going to hurt you, Abigail. Just tell me what happened.” 

She looked at me, studying me as if searching for a lie in my expression. When she found none, she let out a shaky breath and the words tumbled out immediately after. “These rogues kidnapped me three months ago. They forced me to join them, and if I didn’t, they said they’d kill me. I’ve been living with them ever since. They made me come along with them on their crime sprees.” 

My jaw tightened. I looked over at the two rogues, who were still lying motionless on the ground. 

“Well, they’re not going to hurt you now,” I said. I nodded to my Beta. “Get the bodies out of here. Load them up on the trucks to be taken back to the pack and burned.” 

He nodded and motioned for the warriors to drag the rogues out of the barn. 

Once they were gone, I turned back to Abigail. “I’ll take you back to the pack. No one will hurt you there.” 

“Is Vivian there?” she blurted out. 

I pulled my head back. “Vivian? Yeah, she’s there.” 

“Then I’m not going.” 

I stared at her. “Why not?” 

She didn’t answer. 

“Abigail,” I said. 

Abigail sighed. “Vivian’s the one who paid the rogues to kidnap me. I saw her once, when it all first happened. She gave them money and told them to keep me away from the pack.” 

That didn’t make any sense. Abigail was a member of the pack-Vivian hardly knew her. She’d always kept to herself. Why would Vivian pay a bunch of rogues to kidnap her? Why would Vivian be working with rogues at all? 

“I don’t-” 

“Please.” Abigail’s dirty hand shot out to grip my wrist. Her eyes were wild, desperate. “Alpha, you have to believe me. Vivian is as bad as Ellie said.” 

I stared at her for a long moment, unable to respond as the name shot through me. Ellie. I recalled the night she tried to warn me that Vivian had been working with the rogues. The night we found Vivian’s necklace. 

But Vivian had said that the rogue stole her jewelry. She wouldn’t… She couldn’t… 

“Abigail,” I said slowly, “are you positive that Vivian was the one to orchestrate this?” 

Her mouth opened, but before she could speak, there was a shout from outside the barn. 

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“Alpha! Come quick!” 

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I turned and ran out, Abigail following close behind. My Beta was standing near the tree line, wrestling with another rogue. This one was bigger than the others, and he was putting up a hell of a fight. 

The warriors that had been loading the bodies into the trucks rushed over to help, and together they managed to pin the rogue to the ground. One secured the rogue’s wrists while he struggled on his belly. 

“He came out of nowhere,” my Beta hissed. He looked up at me. “What should we do with him?” 

I stared down at the rogue. He was snarling, his teeth bared, his eyes wild. 

For a moment, I considered telling my Beta to kill him like the others. But then I looked at Abigail, disheveled and dirty and staring at me like she desperately wanted me to believe her, and I thought about Ellie’s warnings, and just knew I needed answers. 

“Keep him alive,” I said. “Take him back to the pack for questioning.” 

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