Chapter 6 King Of The Wanderers

• 【Selene POV】
• “Bang!”
• The stall door got kicked open from the outside with brutal force!
• I was slumped on the cold tile floor, my mind slipping away under the poison’s grip.
• I forced myself to lift my head.
• Three rough-looking guys blocked the doorway, their breath reeking of booze mixed with pheromones—disgusting as hell.
• “Hey, boys, look! We got ourselves a chick!”
• “Look at her... she’s probably high as hell, right?”
• “Who cares! This girl’s damn fine! We’re in luck tonight!”
• One of them sneered and reached out toward me.
• “Get the fuck away…”
• I tried to fight back, but I didn’t even have the strength to lift a finger.
• “Not bad, huh?”
• The guy grabbed a fistful of my hair, trying to drag me up off the floor.
• “Stop!”
• Just then, a deep voice boomed from behind them.
• The three guys froze like deer caught in headlights.
• Through my blurry vision, I looked over.
• A tall man in a black suit was standing at the bathroom entrance.
• He was tall, backlit so I couldn’t see his face clearly.
• But I could smell him.
• A strong, fierce Beta scent.
• “Who the fuck are you, telling us what to do—”
• The leader hadn’t finished his sentence.
• “Bang!”
• The black-suited Beta moved.
• I didn’t even catch what he did!
• Like a black lightning bolt.
• Three dull cracks sounded as the once cocky men collapsed to the floor like sacks of garbage, knocked out cold.
• So fast!
• This Beta… he was a beast!
• After dealing with them, he slowly walked over to me.
• Crouched down.
• I finally got a clear look at his face.
• Cold. Scarred. Hard as a knife.
• His eyes landed on my hand clutching the phone.
• “You’re looking for Corvus?”
• My heart dropped like a stone!
• How the hell did he know?!
• “You…”
• I barely got a word out before blood surged up my throat again.
• “Pfft—”
• The “wolf poison” was flaring up—full blast!
• “Damn it!”
• The Beta cursed low.
• He snatched my phone, glanced at it, then grabbed my wrist hard.
• “You’re the Selene who turned down Damien?”
• He knew my name!
• I was too weak to answer.
• Darkness was swallowing me whole.
• “Hold on!”
• He scooped me up off the floor.
• “Shit, Damien’s people have tracked us all the way to the bus stop!”
• Cradling me, he rushed out of the bathroom.
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• Before I completely blacked out, I heard him growl into the mic by his ear:
• “Wang! I’m bringing her over right now! Her wolf venom’s flaring up—she’s about to die!”
• ...
• I have no idea how long I was out, but a loud, heated argument woke me up.
• “Kaelen! Just you wait!”
• “That bitch! She got hit by my wolf venom! Without my orders, Hecate won’t give her the antidote! She’s not gonna last more than a few days!”
• That voice...
• It was Damien!
• I snapped my eyes open!
• I found myself lying in... a medical room?
• The air was thick with the smell of herbs.
• Looking down, my ragged hoodie had been swapped out for a clean black bathrobe.
• My body... didn’t hurt as much?
• That burning pain deep inside, like my organs were on fire, was now crushed under a wave of cool medicine.
• Someone... had given me an inhibitor for the wolf venom!
• “She’s a waste of space now! A stray she-wolf anyone can fuck!”
• Damien’s curses were still echoing downstairs!
• “She thinks you saved her? You just picked up a dying piece of trash!”
• “She...”
• That voice dripped with this sickening, condescending pity.
• Like I wasn’t even human.
• Like I was some stray cat or dog he’d “graciously” decided to rescue.
• I gritted my teeth, gripping the edge of the bed so hard my knuckles turned white, forcing myself to stand.
• *Creak—*
• I shoved open the medical room door.
• Standing at the top of the stairs on the second floor, I leaned on the railing and stared coldly at the figure down in the lobby.
• “Shut up.”
• The lobby was a bar.
• A bar packed with dozens of Rogues!
• Damien and his Beta guards stood smack in the middle, surrounded by a pack of Rogues eyeing them like prey.
• Facing Damien was a man I’d never seen before.
• Tall, with an aura that screamed “King”—a mix of raw wildness and absolute power!
• Could he be... the legendary “King of the Rogues”?
• Was he the one who saved me?
• Downstairs, Damien spotted me too.
• His pupils blew wide!
• “Selene!” he shouted like a maniac, “You fucking bitch! You dare show your face?”
• He lifted his head and unleashed his ridiculous Alpha command again.
• “Kneel!”
• *Boom—*
• A crushing wave of mental pressure slammed into me!
• The Beta beside me paled and moved to block it...
• “Don’t.”
• The “King” stopped the powerful Beta.
• Did he want to watch me fail?
• The wolf venom was still inside me.
• I’d just refused a Mate bond.
• I was weak as hell.
• But...
• Under the Alpha command’s pressure, I just...
• He raised an eyebrow.
• Not even a twitch.
• Just looked down at that pissed-off scumbag downstairs like he was trash.
• “Damien.”
• My voice was soft, but it echoed through the whole bar.
• “You’re disturbing my sleep.”
• “Pfft—”
• That so-called “King” couldn’t help but laugh out loud.
• Damien’s face instantly went from purple-red to the color of a raw liver!
• He... he...
• He just got ignored by a “loser” right in front of all the Rogues!
• “You... you...” Damien pointed at me, “Your... your wolf spirit... Hecate said...”
• “Hecate?” I smirked.
• I slowly walked down the stairs and stood right in front of Damien.
• “Damien.”
• “You think,” I said softly, “that me rejecting you was a joke?”
• “You think your pathetic Alpha orders still work on me?”
• “You—” Damien was visibly shaken by my presence.
• “Go crawl back to your pack and your fake-ass green tea bitch. Go be a couple of dog lovers somewhere else and stop bothering people.”
• “You! You dare tell me to get lost?!”
• Damien snapped. He couldn’t take the humiliation. Suddenly, he raised his hand and swung hard, aiming to slap me across the face!
• “Looking for death!”
• The “King” was about to move—
• “Smack!”
• A sharp slap cracked through the air.
• Not on me.
• On Damien.
• I don’t even know where I got the strength!
• One hard slap, right across Damien’s face!
• “Bang!”
• Damien got slammed into a nearby pillar from the force of my slap!
• The whole place went dead silent.
• Damien... an Alpha...
• Just got slapped... the hell out of him... by a broken Luna?!
• Damien was stunned, clutching his face, staring at me in disbelief.
• “Your... your strength...”
• I slowly pulled my hand back, my palm burning like fire.
• I was barely standing.
• “Kaelen.”
• I pointed at Damien lying on the floor.
• “My business with him is my own.”
• I reached into the pocket of my bathrobe and pulled out something, tossing it onto the bar.
• A diamond necklace—the only thing I truly owned that I’d managed to take from the Silver Moon Pack.
• “This is your reward for saving me.”
• “I don’t like owing people favors.”
• He smiled.
• Just as he was about to say something more—
• Suddenly—
• “Ugh!”
• My body froze.
• I looked down in disbelief at my chest.
• There, a silver dagger had pierced through me!
• It was Damien!
• He’d lost it! He actually dared to use silver to kill someone on the “King of Rogues” turf!
• My body felt like a feather, slowly falling backward...
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