a's

my best human friend Chloe Sullivan had listened to my choked story wi

. I'm coming to get you. You are walk

ng up. Chloe was my only real family after my parents

reaked open again. I flinched, gripping th

ion between Garrett and me. She wore an immaculate silk dressing gown, her silver hair perfec

going with that suitcase

nts' house," I mumble

h contempt. "I don't recall you having a house. Wasn't your pathetic little Pack wip

ed at my deepest wounds. I flinche

ed my forehead with a finger tipped by a blood-red nail. "Stop playing these pathetic games f

n your knees thanking us, not making a

ry taste of blood filled my mouth. I

nd go apologize to Garrett," she

pulling the suitc

staff. I saw two young maids peeking through the

th rage when I didn't immediately obey. She r

her hand, re

d, stronger and quicker than her

ped in front of me, her presence r

red Porsche had pulled up to the curb, and knowin

lding me with her body. Her cold eyes swept over Susan. "Mrs.

ed at Chloe, then puffed up her chest. "Who are you?

son is cheating on his wife, and instead of disciplining him, you

e of purple. "How dare you! You do

m. "Why don't you ask your darling son what he was doing

Chloe's sheer force of will. Her

a little attack dog?" she spat. "How pathetic that you can't

law, go find Leah Foster," I said coldly. "

g by my sarc

." I gripped my suitcase and Chlo

hink you can just walk out of this house so easily?

ouse. He saw Chloe and frowned, then

hing for my arm. "Elara,

from his touch, pre

erical. "Look at her! Just look at this ungratef

nd the two women began to push and shove. Garrett

nd and the woman who was his mother. One betrayed me, the other humi

he didn't just stumble; she fell onto the manic

tching her chest. "My he

ith panic. He rushed to her