Chapter 814 Chapter 814
Rory didn’t have any issue finding the path Kelsey pointed out. It was well-traveled. She followed both boot and paw prints.
Somehow, in the last hour, her life had turned into a nightmare. The things they told her at first seemed too bizarre to be real, but the look in Kobie’s eyes when she told her about the people they had rescued was real. Women, children, and men, like Noah and Emersyn, were all held captive. All over North America. Sold off as pets. Living, breathing beings were pets and showpieces.
If she hadn’t witnessed what happened to Blanche, she would have never thought that kind of brutality could be real. How could someone be that way? The icing on the cake for her was when they’d told her that other shifters were involved. Abducting their own kind and handing them over for profit was unfathomable, but it was happening.
All of it was taking place while she lived, completely oblivious to it. For four years, she came and went as she pleased, not worrying once that someone might harm her because of what she was.
Prejudice wasn’t uncommon in the human world. The color of a person’s skin or the accent they had often triggered deplorable, racist behavior. What was happening to shifters seemed worse, if that was even possible. It made her feel ill and angry at the same time.
Her whole body felt stiff. Her stomach was cramping up. Rory wanted to blame the damp weather but knew that wasn’t it at all. The animal suppressed inside her was causing it. The emotional onslaught of the past few days was the cause. She knew this. She’d struggled from time to time with it when she allowed emotions to get the better of her.
Taking a deep breath, she blew it out and looked down at the angry river. Watching the water, she wiped the tears from her face. There had to be somewhere she could go that was safe. A place where she could rebuild her life. Now that she knew all of this, she’d do it with more caution than the last time. Something she’d done had led those monsters to her, and Blanche paid the price. She wouldn’t be letting her guard day for a second from now on.