Only Half Bad

ing blankly up at the trees

d vision, grey eyes staring at him in alarm. "Oh,

wearing girl just done to him? Had she just... flung him onto the ground? Him?!

desperately waving a hand in his

ther fell, landing on his chin just before Rag-skin

oked down at him. Whatever specie she was, she was of great str

enough on his plate. Besides, if he got up and he fought her, Rogan knew he'd kill her. It had been a long time sinc

't moved an inch. He'd be damne

y? Was he planning to catch her from the back an

cked him? He hadn't even done enough to her f

aised a hand to

ed up at h

"No! Not yo

d a breath. This woman was

o hell, he quickly

diately moving to dust his back

! Rogan's teeth were about

and yet she was leaving him?? He was an irreplaceable safety and it wasn't like she had anywhere else to go since her forest home had been invaded! She'd have to stick with him no matter wha

again, lowering her hand fro

He stared at her in shock. She'd smacke

at her hair had blown bac

tched his hand away from her wrist. He s

Found now? Even after she'd slammed him to the ground? Her heart ea

han he'd ever been in all six hundr

ted off towards tall bushes, glan

ughts. Was she alright in the head? What did she mean by no

alking away. Damn, he'd have t

cracking his neck joints as he did

******

h laughter even as Rogan glared

ottle, filling his glass

sked Cassie, snorting as

"She caught me off guard. Keep lau

n hair, twirling the white highlights that swayed on ei

uld you fear your King who is a Gemini soul of fir

glow as she narrowed them an

finger up at the room. "If he ever tried

ous," said

them at the hostel bar, black eyes sexily

me, Cecile," Cassie warned,

and fight our King who is five hundred times more powerful than yo

sarcasm and turned away as the women began bickering. Cassie with

less times why he came to this place. The Hostel. Why he hung out

brothel. Rogan looked into his d

t off in a heated debate with C

challenged by anything or anyone. Especially when it came to their, in her words "brick-headed King Aiden". S

er for them. Those who had been re

Thus his bizarre re

he Gemini soul of an Owl, which had startled Rogan the first time he'd seen it. A large, white bird, it had been, sitting atop a tall lamp and looking

n't either eating something or singing at the top of her lungs. There was Claudia who had the Gemini soul of a Temptress. Rogan was rather certain she was the reason why the Kingdo

er. She was one of the first who Cassie had taken into the

gan

The little head of rainbows at his elbow giggled

down at Clove

r rainbow colored hair, grinning up at him with a huge bag of marshmallows under her

eyes. "Told you to stop asking

leaned toward her. "What was that, Clover?" he asked, slowly pullin

ning of its usual blush as she looked into

falling back and scram

hed his shades back

a look. "Real

rink back towards him as Cassi

the bar, studying him

a girl beat you

he bar with a sharp tap. "

, Master Rogan," Cecile told him. Rogan only harrumphed in respons

e had on bizarre rags made of animal skins and her ha

ly detailed explanation of how dirty the

used. "W

ring ours. She's determined to live there alone ever since the woman

wolf? That explained why she'd managed to lift him. "Huh? Uhm... no! No, no, I

wning in thought at his wor

rmly, his eyes

e for nearly two days, starved and thirsty, but delighted that she had been playing "Lost and Found" with some cloaked woman wh

expression. "What? Getting some o

e hair. "Hm. When you said to her to

her for a moment. "Someth

e huffed out a breath, shaking h

r. "You got som

ure you that she's burrowed in som

Rubbish. Why wou

cerned... you two are playing

nd poured himself another drink,

his view. "Oh, and... did I mention that

n over his dark shades. She'll do what? Why on earth would she wait for

gir

a damn. It's her fault for being so stupid, so if she wants to w