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CHAPTER 81.

Author: Thecesca
last update Last Updated: 2025-06-10 09:03:30

Another war was coming.

I could feel it in my bones. I couldn’t say when or how it would take place, only that a storm was brewing. A tornado we might not be able to bypass.

But for now, I let myself focus on Levi and what he needed. Comfort? A shoulder to cry on? Someone to rant to? Even someone to punch. I could be all of those things and more. But what I couldn’t stand was him hating me.

Because if I’d just listened to Jerry and not gone camping with Ruby and her stupid friends, none of this would have happened. I just had to prove I was better than Cherry.

Cherry, who was never really competing with me to begin with. My jealousy had started a whole chain of reactions.

And Levi was paying the price—more than once.

After Julian walked away, leaving me standing there with the rest of our broken pack, I tried beyond hard not to collapse.

I wanted to be strong. If not for myself, for everyone else. Everyone who had lost a lot because of the battle I caused, everyone who was hurting and
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