Lahat ng Kabanata ng The Rule of the Rogues: Kabanata 11 - Kabanata 16

Time stood still. Adira swore everything happened in slow motion as she watched her brother stand up and approach her. Her heart raced, pounding against her ribcage as if trying to escape. Numerous thoughts rushed through the woman’s head, each one screaming over the last and making it impossible to tell what any of them actually were.When she finally managed to speak, her voice was shaky and uncertain. Of all of the things she had been half expecting to find here, her missing brother was not one of them. Well, not so missing anymore she supposed. He was here. She knew where she was.“What are you doing here?”Brax glanced over at Braxton, a silent message passing between the two of them before Braxton slipped out into one of the bedrooms, leaving the two siblings alone to talk. The privacy should have made it easier but Adira found herself missing the buffer Braxton had provided for the two of them. Considering how much Adira had missed Brax and how often she had longed to have her

Night had fully descended by the time Adira returned to the living room but even then she could barely look at her brother. It wasn’t just anger, she was filled with hatred towards him over all he had done and she didn’t want to be a part of that. She couldn’t. Forgiving him felt like she was pardoning him, telling him that everything he did was fine now and it wasn’t. It never would be and, as much as Adira knew she couldn’t hold this against him forever, she certainly wasn’t going to make it easy for him to earn her forgiveness.Brax looked up at her as she walked in, silently assessing the situation so that he could decide how stupid it would be to speak to her again now. Even after so long apart, she was the same girl he had always known. They grew up together, they loved each other and that had to count for something, no matter how much anger and hurt was currently racing through her bloodstream. “Adira,” his tone held his hesitancy and he wasn’t stupid enough to attempt any of

Adira couldn’t sleep that night. How was she supposed to? Her mind was racing a million miles per minute and she found herself stressing over people she didn’t even know.If there truly were other experiments going on, other warehouses of torture, as Aspen had told her there were, there was no telling how many people were suffering and in pain. The thought angered her but, more than that, an uncomfortable guilty feeling tied her stomach up in knots. She had gotten out. She left people she knew and cared about behind to suffer in her place, not knowing when she would be able to return for them and now she finds out there are others she didn’t even know existed.Why was she special? Why was she the one who managed to get away when no one else seemed able to? The more she thought about it, the worse she felt, and by the time she slipped out of the room the next morning, she had managed maybe an hour dozing and no fully restful sleep.“You look like crap,” Braxton pointed out bluntly as h