Chapter 20 THE ROGUE’S SECRET
Celestia's POV
"Beta Steven, you know what I wouldn't have come so far to talk to you if it wasn't a very pressing matter I'm sure you may or may not have heard of the fire that took claim to a huge portion of the forest close to my camp,"
This was the first thing I said immediately after he led me towards the VIP section.
I'm surprised that he could even afford it he wasn't amongst the richest betas I interacted with but he seemed to be the most open-minded one the one who wasn't quick to look down on me because of my rogue status or scrunch their noses whenever I showed up.
My whole being here was a huge risk but one that I had to take for the sake of those in my camp. I had placed Crane in charge of the search and also made sure that Priscilla was actually putting her own part in instead of just pretending to.
Then now I was using a specially concocted perfume that perfectly hid my rogue scent, but that kind of thing was incredibly expensive and I could not use it all up now especially since one of the main sources of income the forest had been mostly burned down.
"Yes of course I heard about what happened and I am extremely sorry such a thing had to happen to you and your what did you normally call it your camp, how have you been handling it?" on the couch that had been provided In the VIP room he shifted closer to me maybe a little bit too close perhaps he just wanted to hear me better but they were already alarm bills wearing in the back of my head telling me to be careful I didn't want to ignore them but I wasn't here because I just wanted to take a stroll into pack territory.
If I were exposed as a rogue in this party filled with alpha's lunas and other high rankers I would be as good as dead they would not need to question any other procedures that normal wolves would go through instead I would be dead within seconds and nobody would even so much as flicker their eyes in shock.
I know clearly because I used to attend banquets like this.
Some wolves who came here for their own reasons but had become rogues with sometimes caught perhaps they wanted to experience the thrill of being Park wolves or maybe they had been pushed to the world just as me whatever reason brought to them here sometimes they were exposed perhaps their fake scent had run out while the lingard in the party for just a little bit too long.
Once that happened they were killed.
There was no question no mercy it just happened and I feel so ashamed that I was a part of that back then though it feels almost hypocritical to feel bad about that now that I was in that very same position.
Back then rogues were painted in the worst picture to me everyone said that they were horrible and they had to be put down because all of them were guilty of the crimes that they had been accused of committing but I knew very well that as much as guilty rogues is existed so did innocent ones who did nothing wrong rather than trusting maybe a little too much only to be stabbed in the back and betrayed by those that they had to trusted more than anything else in the entire world.
Now I was trying to save those that were innocent from losing the little bit of happiness that they had found over the years and that was what had brought me over here to Beta Steven but he seemed to be turning around and circles the more I tried to bring the issue over to the fire and my need for immediate support I needed supplies again but I understand that it would be hard to get them considering that the forest where we gathered most of the herbs that we sold over to the parks had been burned down however I want it to see if we could trade in anything else.
He looked at me with a vicious expression and said.
"Is there any need for us to be around the bush you have something extremely valuable that you can offer to me, don't you think?" He said and he tried to kiss me but I immediately pulled away.
"No I won't do that," As much as I wanted to save my people it wasn't that level of desperation yet there were still other high-ranking wolves that I could talk to if he wasn't going to help me without taking advantage of my body then I would try to get through to them instead.
As I turned to leave he came over and grabbed me by my wrist.
"Where do you think you are going to? I gave you an offer considering that you have probably nothing else right now and you dare to turn your back on me you who is nothing more than a filthy rogue do you think that you are still a luna, no you are not!" he snorted loudly, "don't even think of looking at yourself like that you are nothing close to a Luna, at least not anymore,"
He thought that his words would penetrate me like knives but instead they simply bounced right off of me.
I yanked my hand away from his grip but he tried to hold on to me once more once again I tried it to push him away but he was very stubborn about it then he said that if I kept resisting him he was going to do something I would regret I dared him and he smiled wickedly and said; "take one step out of this VIP room without giving me what I want and I'll tell everyone here that you are a rogue,"