A

nts were in the living room of the small apartment, so I ran up

minutes after I did, and

y cuticles as I paced the length of my

n rapid success

am.

s for a scream. "You're

ws jumped as I flew to the bed

parents co

s too, they might still hear

mming in her eyes as she underst

I'm finished." Fresh tears leaked from my

e asked after I pul

ut. If my parents found out that I lost my virginity to a man almost a decade

la

uckled as the door to my room was whipped o

disbelief in his eyes, while my frail mom looked l

d covered her mo

praying that they

ather's tone was collect

*

on the living room floor. My father barke

father pleaded with tears in his

e, I muttered.

r. He staggered backward till he hit a chair, and he suddenly spun aroun

s we watched my dad destro

all with bits of glass flying everywhere

Please

," he barked. "Years! Years of training you and this is what you give us? Yea

I would just die, but all I could do w

ll voice. "Do you even know? Or did

poke to her mate

this, Sarah,"

questioning eyes, and th

ho

t I managed to speak. "He rejected it," I cri

is head. Giving one final look at me

o where she was weeping. "I hate myself for

and haphazardly made her

ister in the southern packs

. "You're scaring me

ll me once every week and let me know how you're

answers as she scribbled numbers and a

't want to

s voice thundered from behind us,

wasn't

mother's heads wasn't the same man who raised me with love all my life.

at down!" My m

ible for this and bear the consequences of your ac

sorry,"

ill the cou

there. StoneWolves are wreaking ha

and running into even one of them could mean death. Nobody step

ne

ad

wo

her pack som

hr

mit rose to my throat, an

ou

ng a child fo

med out long and loud, and for the next ten seconds

y dad had shot a hole through the television

out, cocking the gun

it would take to end my

y veins, and the unmistakable desire to see another rising

almost groaned out with re

s I ki

that

lothing, and the life clinging to

nd sore all over, I found an open laundry store at the pack's

tters worse if I

hat I'd wake up tomorrow, and none of this would have ever

off to sleep, a ding fr

ng, half-laughing, I pulled it out. The time was just pas

to life, and I s

as text

e at th

e wants to talk and work thin

nk Aidan, but he

st from the thought that we

us feeling that crept into my st

t us to meet at