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lves turning their heads as I walked by but none of it really got to me. Each step was heavier than t

door it opened be

face, she didn't ask a single question. She

'd been holding on to was finally gone a

" and led me through the door and pu

I d

Just... changed direction and went straight to her, Sera

eli

th my hands. "He said we were young, maybe we rushed into

ly, " what did

scandal." A bitter laugh rippled from my lips. "When I attempted to touch Kaelor and get him to

e as a sheet of paper, b

ing." I urg

Moon Goddess doesn't make mistakes, Vaelira, as painful as

thing, what we had, for five years he loved me, we had plans f

more, just clutched

ng here for me but humiliation and everyone looking at me lik

you know how dangerous it is to be an Omega outside pack area

ng and she appeared

around my plate, and she was trying to get me to eat it, but I was not eating it. Later, she assist

es closed, but sleep d

g her way towards the front entrance of the building. I recalled that she used to

nly opportunit

had just a small bag with me, a change of clothes, a waterskin, some drie

t no

nridge was lost behind me, until the trees had swallowed

ng. I knew that I must not st

. I let myself think for the first time since I'd left my house what kind of life la

I hea

eps be

my imagination. I continued to walk, th

steps co

r thi

and saw nothing but endless trees swallowed in shado

ra

at all, big wolves came from all around. I ran faster, my breathing accelera

y surrounded me, cutting me off from

I bumped into solid muscle behind

transformed himself into a tall, cold, human sh

meone you shouldn't have loved," he

ns. "Have you been sent by Alaric? Does

forest before I could ask for an answer. I clawed and kicked, I screamed and barked,

ed some dark green and leafy thing in his finge

the most lethal poisons

o close my mouth, tried to

forced down

egan to grow numb, my eyes to become cloudy. I had a feeling o

d, satisfied, as I

rd their leader speak one last time, his vo

," he said, "with how easi

r than the poison spre

e royal family wa

m every edge of my vision, I

e wanted