Chapter 76


    They locked eyes for a few seconds and J reacted first. She jumped at him, kicked off his knife,


    and tackled him to the ground. Kass let out a painful gasp as J twisted his arm to his back.


    “J! It’s me!” Kass cried.


    “I know it’s you!” J hissed, “What are you doing by my bedside with a knife!”


    Kass stared back at J with shocked eyes, “W–What are you talking about? It’s your knife! You


    always keep a knife under your pillow while sleeping. Remember?”


    J nced at the knife that had dropped to the ground.


    Kass was right. It was indeed her knife. It was an old habit of her to keep a weapon nearby when


    she was asleep.


    “OK. But what were you doing with it? And what were you even in my tent?” J snapped.


    Kass’s body shivered.


    At first, J thought he was shaking in fear, but then she discovered that it was because of shock


    and anger.


    “Are you suspecting me?!” Kass snarled with a hurtful voice, “You think I was–was trying to do


    something to you with that knife? Are you f**king crazy J? Doubting


    me like that? Do you have any idea how ridiculous that is?!”


    He sounded generously mad.


    J loosened her grip slightly but still kept him kneeling on the ground, “Then why did youe


    into my tent?”


    “I was taking my switch off the night watch! I passed by your tent and wanted to check on you. I saw


    you asleep and that dagger was only an inch away from your face. I was afraid that it might cut you


    in your sleep, so I took it and wanted to put it somewhere else!”


    J froze on her spot for a few seconds and finally released Kass.


    Yet Kass didn’t stand up from the ground. He looked up at her with a deeply traumatized look.


    “I can’t believe you actually thought I would kill you…” he murmured in astonishment.


    J didn’t feel so good about this either, “Sorry. I–I have been edgy for too long and I overreacted.


    I thought you were going to do something after I decided to tell Daran about your identity…


    She met with Kass’s sad eyes and stopped talking.


    “Th–This is absurd. Before I told you my secret, you would trust me with your back on the


    battlefield. Yet now you can’t even stand me standing by your bedside…” Kass choked, “Is your


    trustpletely gone? Is there nothing I can do now?”


    J let out a long sigh.


    Her heart wanted to believe in Kass, yet her mind urged her to do the opposite. She was not simply


    J Manning. She was also the Gamma of the Blood Moon Pack,


    responsible for thousands of soldiers‘ lives


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    responsible for thousands of soldiers‘ lives.


    If she trusted the wrong person, she couldn’t bear the consequences.


    “I am fine, and you saw it already, Kass. Now go back to your night watch,” she said exhaustedly.


    Yet Kass didn’t listen to her this time.


    He grabbed the knife on the floor hastily. Instead of pointing it at her, he directed it at his belly


    region.


    “None of these would happen if I weren’t a rogue right?” he hissed, clenching the knife, “Do you


    want me to gouge out the brand they left with me? Will that make you trust me again?”


    “Drop the knife!” J bellowed.


    Yet he cut himself with that knife instead. His shirt soon became red with blood.


    “I didn’t want to lie to you. But I hate it more when you look at me with those doubtful eyes,” he


    choked. “Maybe it was a mistakeing to the Blood Moon Pack. Maybe I should let the rogues kill


    me years ago..”


    J felt her chest contract with grief. Her vision became blurred with tears.


    Just then, a series of footsteps came from outside the tent. Before any of them could react, a tall


    figure burst into the tent hastily.


    It was Daran..


    “What the hell happened!” he growled, his eyes scanning the room.


    With the blood and the knife, it sure looked like a crime scene.


    “We were just talking-” J said weakly.


    “Talking with de?” Daran walked up to J with one step and examined her face closely, “Are


    you hurt?”


    J shook her head. She looked towards Kass and sighed, “Go back to your shift.” Kass stood


    stiffly on his spot, staring at them with gloomy eyes. Blood was still dripping down from his


    fingertips.


    J took out a roll of bandage from her back and ced it in Kass’s pocket, “Go wrap yourself


    up.”


    He still didn’t move.


    “Leave us. Now,” Daran spoke up eventually. His voice was deep with majesty, making Kass quiver


    and caving into his Alpha aura.


    Dropping the knife, Kass turned and left the tent holding his head down.


    “So,” Daran turned to J with his gaze turning soft, “You want to tell me what happened?”


    “Can we not do it here?” J said with a muffled voice. The tent smelt like Kass’s blood, which


    was making her feel blue.


    “Come with me.”


    Daran took her hand and led her out of the tent.


    They crossed the camping area, made it through the dark forest, and eventually arrived at a small


    hill.


    The night breeze was cool and gentle up there. And without the blocking of tree branches, they got


    to see the silver moon hanging in the sky.


    “Wow,” J let out a gasp of amazement.


    Daran stood by her side and looked up to the sky with her, “I have always wanted to do this with


    you…Bathed under the silver moonlight on a peaceful night with


    nothing but the sound of birds and wind around us.”


    J felt her heart swell and she smiled, “Too bad we are not back at the packhouse.”


    They stood there quietly for a long time, taking in this beautiful scenery in silence.


    And J spoke up eventually, “There is something about Kass I haven’t told you.”


    “What about him?” Daran asked.


    Taking in a deep breath, J told him the secret about Kass, “I know I might be acting na?ve here


    but I really do trust him. I don’t think he is the mole.”


    Daran stayed in silence for a while and said slowly, “Well, me neither.”


    “Not even after you know that he is a rogue?” J asked in disbelief.


    She thought Daran would react much stronger towards this.


    “No. I don’t think he is capable of harming you,” Daran nced at J. “He cares about you


    maybe a little too much.”


    J let out a long sigh of relief.


    Having Daran here to back her up really eased off her stress.


    “Then who is it then? The mole?” J rubbed her hair frustratedly, “I can’t believe we are starting


    this internal fight even before the actual war breaks out. That Rogue King really does have a few


    cards up in his sleeves. Frankly, I can’t trust anyone right now but you.”


    Daran gazed into the distance. After a long pause, he said slowly, “I have a guess about the mole.”


    “What?” J gasped looking up at him.


    Daran was a steady person. When he said that he had a “guess,” good chances were he was


    already 90% sure of this.


    “Well, who is it?” J demanded eagerly.


    Daran lowered his upper body and whispered a name into J’s ear.