Chapter 58
“Are you doing alright at the Harper front?”
J asked Angelina as they went into her office.
“Good. It is a lot of work to try to keep her out of troubles. But there is nothing I can’t handle.”
Angelina closed the door and walked to the fridge. “Something to drink? Water? Iced tea?”
“Water will be fine. Thank you.”
J sat down on the couch and said, “We can always throw Harper into jail and let her rot in a
dark cell. You don’t have to be trapped by her.”
Angelina walked over with two sses of water and set one of them in front of J. Taking her
seat next to J, Angelina said with a smile, “No, I don’t feel trapped. Instead, I feel my passion
for life being rekindled. Do you know how many times I have imagined Harper crawling under my
feet and begging for my forgiveness? It was the only thing that guided me through the dark times. I
am practically living my
dream right now.”
“But Harper doesn’t seem to feel sorry about what her did at all,” J said.
“Oh, we will get there. Slowly.”
Angelina shrugged.
“Many nurses and maids here were once victims of Harper. They would love to help me get Harper
back on the right track. So anyway, what do you need me for today?”
J set the ss back on the table and leaned forward to Angelina, “I am here to ask you about a
member of the Riverside Pack…Maxie.
The moment J said that name, she noticed a strange look flickering across Angelina’s eyes.
“Why? Have you heard about her?” J pursued eagerly.
“Well, yeah…But it’s a long time ago.” Angelina frowned, “Did something happen to her?”
“I think so, yeah. But neither her nor her maids are willing to tell me what happened. I suspect that it
has something to do with the Gamma of Riverside Pack, Baron.”
J told Angelina everything that happened today.
The furrow between Angelina’s brows kept getting deeper.
“…That bastard,” Angelina gritted at the end of J’s story.
“As you can see, Angelina, I am here to help,” J said. “And not just to help Maxie, but also to
help the entire Riverside Pack army. We will go to war with the rogues very soon. We can’t let a
dirtbag like Baron lead the troops. We have to take him down!”
A resentful look appeared on Angelina’s face when she heard J said “the rogues.”
“Well, no one hates the rogues more than I do.”
Angelina gave J a brief smile.
“And to answer your earlier question… Yeah, I do know what happened to Maxie.” J sat up
straighter, listening intently.
“Maxie started off as a soldier in Baron’s father’s troops. Baron’s father appreciated her talent and
soon pointed her as the captain. She was a great warrior. Many girls would sneak out during lunch
break and went to the training field to see her train. And she was nice to us too, unlike mostdies
and nobles. So everyone loves her downstairs.”
So Maxie was Baron’s father’s right-hand warrior.
It exined why Baron trusted her with all his dirty secrets.
“And then…Baron’s father died. Baron took over his troops…And everything changed.”
Angelina tightened her fists. Her body was shaking slightly.
“One night, me and the other maids were dusting Maxie’s room and bumped into hering back
from training. Her hair was messy, and she got bloody lips and bruised forehead…And most
importantly, her clothes were all ripped apart.”
J widened her eyes.
A wild anger took hold of her.
Baron…That son of a bitch! How dare him!!
“Nobody tried to expose what Baron did?” J snapped.
“Who dares? We are all lowly servants. We would be skinned alive if we were caught gossiping
about our masters. And Maxie…you can imagine the awkward situation she was in. Baron’s father
was basically a mentor to her. How can she foul mouth her mentor’s son? Plus, Baron is well
respected in the army. No one will believe what
she said.”
Poor Maxie.
Nobody would believe her. So she could only suck it up herself.
For years, she cleaned Baron’s messes quietly and endured his disgusting harassment. If J
didn’t find this out, how long would this keep going? “This must stop. NOW.”
J gritted with rage burning inside of her.
“Baron…that son of a bitch deserves to die a thousand times.”
Angelina nodded, “I was d that you came to me today, J. If you didn’t step out, I doubt
anyone would ever do.”
She paused and let out a sarcastic snort, “And it is funny. Harper framed an innocent person for
raping, but the true victim of a se xual assault was forced to stay in silent. This world is so fu cking
twisted.”
“And they are all going to hell. One after another.”
J said coldly and stood up from her seat.
“Thank you today, Angelina. I think I have works to do now.”
J turned and walked towards the door.
But Angelina called behind her back again.
Her eyes were gleaming with a sign of fear when she looked at J.
“Be careful of the rogues, J.”
She said.
“They are more dangerous than you think…especially their king.”
“You have met with the rogue king?” J asked in surprise.
The head of the rogues was a very mysterious figure.
Although everybody called that person the “Rogue King,” nobody knew if that was a man or woman,
let alone what that person looked like.
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“Yeah…Once. At a party.”
Angelina gulped nervously as though she was going through some very terrible memories.
much.”
“I know that those people are barbaric. But it exceeds your imagination, way
She said with a quivering voice full of aghast.
“And that is why you need the best warriors in this war. Or you will lose. And don’t want to end up in
the rogues’ hands after losing.”
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Angelina’s warning carried significant meaning.
As much as J loved to stay and ask more questions about the rogues, she still had Baron to
take care of.
So after setting another time to discuss this with Angelina, J left the clinic and went back to the
training field.
It was approaching dusk, and soldiers were leaving the training field at the end of a day.
J pushed her away through the crowd, trying to find Balvina.
Yet she spotted Maxie in the distance first.
Maxie wore a baseball hat that was pulled down low to cover most of her face.
She was dragging a cart of training facilities and heading toward the warehouse.
She seemed depressed and defeated.
“Maxie!” J cried running towards her.
Maxie froze and turned around. Her eyes widened with shock as J came close. Then she took
a sudden step back and snapped:
“What are you still doing here? I said. We have nothing to talk about!”
“Maxie-”
“It is still about that ount book, isn’t it?” Maxie hissed, keeping her voice low. “I won’t give it to
you. And if you keep pestering me, I will tell Baron about this. I swear!”
“No! It is not about the ount book. It is about you!”
J grabbed Maxie’s arm. Maxie quivered significantly. J must have touched the bruises on
her forearm.
Looking directly into Maxie’s eyes, J said, “I know what happened to you, Maxie. That is not
right. It has to stop. NOW!”
“What? How…Who told you!” Maxie gasped in panic.
“It doesn’t matter. But you can’t let that bastard keep bullying you. Baron’s father wouldn’t want to
see this either. Plus, if you keep your mouth shut, who knows how many innocent girls will keep
bing Baron’s victims?”
That was when Maxie started to hesitate.
She stared back at J with a clear struggling look on her face and shook her head, “No, no
way…Baron is too powerful…”
“Even more powerful than the Alpha?” J said urgently, “Alpha Daran is with us this time. You
have our support! This is your chance! Take it, Maxie!”
“I-I can’t! You don’t understand. Baron has gotten my-”
“What are we talking about here?” a voice appeared behind Maxie’s back, interrupting her words.
Baron strolled to their side and wrapped an arm around Maxie’s shoulder casually, with Owen
grinning like a fool behind his back.
ncing at J’s furious face, Baron chuckled and wrapped a lock of Maxie’s hair around his
finger yfully.
“Is someone bothering my Maxie?” he asked in a cold, drawling voice.