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d over and over again like a nightmare. Mom he

fine, darling," sh

was tired of feeding myself false ho

h disgust or pity, like an outcast w

let out the pain I had bottled inside

fresh tears ran down my face. "I hate

Dad said to me last night when I told him

the way you are. Running away won't make the pain disappear. You

e my fears. This is not the first time people have poin

recognize the girl staring back at me. My face was swoll

oked

tee and loose baggy jeans. I stepped out of m

t, and my parents kept ste

to stay at home?" Mom asked,

ied as I let ou

d around us," Dad said, t

. I should get g

up and kissed my

hallway, the whispers

's he

ave a wolf. Sh

r th

feel sad to have a

fingers, while others looked at me stra

rugged like I didn't care, th

I expected her to ignore me like most o

face lit up i

ood mo

ed through m

I replied soft

dlessly about my wolf. I should have been more care

t's not your fa

friend, and you don't dese

ie

I mean, I love him as a friend, but he's not here now, so

I arrived here, I didn'

rmth. He didn't act cold toward me

as cruel as the Nigh

o go home. Amara and her friends cornered me

s girl," Amara sneered, and he

but I refus

rday. Like, what did you do in your previous life that the

tepped b

er alone

olled h

g that you also don't have a wolf because, I

o her palms as she watch

yn. They aren't

hand as we wal

to annoy Ama

*

walk because my room felt suffocating, s

as the golden sunset reflected acros

ndedly tossed small stones into the water

f, would thing

le actuall

ook at me with pri

e found my

been in the Nightfa

am a lot, and I

behind me pulled m

w Alpha Ronan standing beneath a tre

fr

through my

at me, and ou

w pain in his eyes

suddenly grabbed his face

way, my throat tig

so much? It shouldn't m

my chest refus

cold droplets soaking my cl

soon and find shelter from the rain

aphi

alking toward me

bowed respectfully as his ha

okay?"

," I said as I

a wolf, but we are destined to be mates. What you saw earl

ed in m

te

nan is m

ling of hurt when I s

and grabbed my

a..." he

ed into me

uldn'

nd away and st

have a wolf, so I can't h

ter," Ronan repli

snapped, my v

the girl everyone pities. How can I become your Luna

could reply because I knew I would comp

*

n my head to the whole mate issue, but for now, I needed to take a n

nocks suddenly echo

Bang

pright i

, darling," Mom shoute

ervously as I rush

ething

e to my parents that he was a

parents standing near the fron

ll familiar figure smiling politely at

caught i

ayyy

eyes, and that smile

hispered in

up the mome

d me,

lips as I ran stra