pain I had been feeling in the past month

ath the blanket, their underwear laid out on the ground everywhere in the room. My hands clenched in

s briefs before him like a

it's not what it looks like

interrupted him, moving away from him. "Go on, Trevo

kle-fresh in her lap. "Oh, please, Lena. You're so

he girl who was like my sister

been so betrayed. "You were my best friend, Alina. I fought for you,

ly. "Whatever. He want

mode as if to placate me. "Lena, It's complicated. I didn'

at just happened? Did you trip and fall into

lina and I have been together for a year. We are in a serious relationship and you we

ds had an effect on me. My wolf snarled underneath me to rip him limb from lim

tears in the corners o

Alina with seething anger, and she averted her eyes from me

ig-" Trevor starte

high and tried to sound

aid, "I, Lena Petrakis, rejec

at me in shock. Alina looked back and f

e laughed as he stepped cl

e I am?" I raised

you can survive without me? I'm the only on

had to save my mother but I couldn't take t

ept any of your dirt mon

revor yel

whose face had go

nd of life you choose." I moved closer to the bed where she was still sitting wi

my heel and

g my gut. My legs turned jelly when I registered what just happened. I squa

in the air all around me. "What did I do to deserve all this?" I yel

hat I had been deprived of since our perfect family fell apart. But

my feet in the rain under the

d. I took off my wet sneakers, stripped out of my soggy tee sh

would n

all I could gather from all my savings and jobs was three hundred thousand. Where was I supposed to

ose tight, trying to

way. There has to be. My

like some of the few expensive jewelry i had, the small plot of land my mother left me back

y phone ringing on the nightstand beside me. Grabbing the phone with

a hos

the bed with my heart

nds, I answered t

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