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Chapter 20
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2026-07-28 08:37:02
Shana AllenMarcia strikes again. At least Ryder put her in her place.
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BRIELLA. A few days had passed since I left the pack, and I'd been moving through them on autopilot. But I hadn't felt completely present since the nightmare.Sometimes I'd catch myself rubbing my ribs, half expecting to find bruises beneath my clothes. Other times, a sudden noise would make my heart jump into my throat. And whenever a room became too quiet, my mind supplied the steady sound of water hitting metal.I could still remember the pain with terrifying clarity.Worse, I could remember the fear. It hadn't felt imagined. It had felt lived.Junie had given me the address of someone she trusted wholeheartedly, so when I reached the city, that was where I went. Maybe trusting the judgment of a woman I'd only recently met sounded ridiculous, but something about Junie felt safe.Tala said that I could trust her, and I had always trusted my wolf’s judgment. I wasn't going to stop now.Rachel had welcomed me into her home without hesitation. Even better, she didn't ask questions I wa
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CASSIE.I held my palm flat on the door and waited for the heavy steps on the porch to become distant. I needed that extra second of silence just to be sure he’d actually taken the hint and walked away.I’d never seen Ryder look like that before. Not in all the years I’d known him.He didn’t do disheveled. He didn’t get rattled. The guy could roll out of bed after a bar fight and still look like he’d stepped out of a magazine spread for future Alphas. It had been instilled in him before he could really shift, thanks to Alpha Parker and his special form of anal-repressive parenting. I still remembered Ryder getting shredded as an eight-year-old pup for having grass stains on his knees at a pack gathering. Grass stains. From playing like a pup. I knew where his unyielding composure had come from, and I knew how deeply it had been imprinted. Which was why the guy on my porch a minute ago had set off every alarm bell in my head.Which was why the guy on my porch a minute ago had set off e
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RYDER.I dragged my forearm across my lips so hard that my lips burned, like I could make the last five fucking minutes come off my skin. Pissed didn’t even come close. Marcia had forced her mouth onto mine, and all I could think about was Briella. For all I knew, the bond had given her a front-row seat to every second of it and she was out there somewhere right now taking it as proof that I am indeed the piece of shit she already knew I was.I didn't wait around to see if Marcia had anything else stupid to say. I turned my back on her and headed straight for Cassie's house.The entire way there, I rehearsed a dozen different versions of what I could say, and every single one sounded like complete shit.‘Hey, sorry my former bad decision ambushed me with her tongue. Think your best friend still wants anything to do with me?’Yeah. Fucking flawless. Nothing screamed, trust me, quite like showing up with that explanation.I was still trying to come up with something that didn’t make me s
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BRIELLA. It didn't take long for me to decide on my path forward. I had already decided to leave the pack before Junie talked to me. If anything, it just helped solidify my choice.'What about Ryder?' Tala asked me.My wolf was torn between wanting her mate and realizing the danger that Alpha Parker posed. Junie hadn't said it outright, but our gut knew that we were right about him.'You heard what I did,' I told her.My wolf sighed and shook her head. 'Yes, I did. Maybe there was more to it than what we heard. We didn't exactly give him a chance to explain or anything.'I thought about it for a moment and had to concede that she was right.'We have to get somewhere safe first. Then we can reach out to him. But we have to be careful.'Junie was outside, watering the plants when I went in search of her. The look in her eyes when she saw me made me think that she already knew my answer."You're leaving," she said. It wasn't a question."I have to." My voice came out steadier than I felt
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BRIELLA.Junie didn't respond immediately. She folded dishcloth slowly, as though she needed a moment to collect her thoughts."Come sit with me. This isn't the type of talk you want to have while standing up."My stomach twisted, but I followed her to the small kitchen table. Junie lowered herself into the chair across from me."I have to tell you something about myself first. Before I say anything else.""Okay." The word came out smaller than I intended, unsure of where she was going with this."I'm a seer."The words settled heavily over the kitchen. I'd heard the term before from old stories Aunt Dee used to tell, the kind meant to explain things that had no simple explanations. I'd always assumed seers as just legends or something."I thought seers were extinct…”"Most people think that." A faint, humorless smile touched her mouth. "It's safer that way. For us, and for the people we love.""Safer how?"She was quiet for a long moment, her gaze drifting toward the woods beyond the
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BRIELLA.My eyelids felt impossibly heavy when I finally managed to pry them open. For several long moments, I simply lay there, staring at the cream-colored ceiling overhead while my mind struggled to catch up with reality.I blinked, my gaze drifting around the room came into focus. Cream walls. A white dresser polished to a shine. A rocking chair by the window with a half-finished quilt draped over its back like someone had just stepped away mid-stitch.Family photographs lined the shelves, smiling faces a painful reminder that this wasn't home.I winced as everything came flooding back.The amazing night with Ryder. Overhearing what he had said to his friend. His words sliced through me again, reminding me how foolish I'd been to believe he'd choose me. Some might call my decision to leave dramatic, even reckless. Frankly, I didn't give a fuck what anyone thought.I was driving away from the pack when a white-hot agony exploded through my chest. Like someone reached inside me and w
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RYDER.I watched Briella from my spot without her even realizing it. I wasn't certain how she hadn't picked up on my scent yet, but I took it as a temporary blessing because it gave me a minute to think, to consider everything.This turn of events was entirely unexpected and fucking impossible to w
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BRIELLA.“Okay. Final verdict time!”Cassie turned towards me with one hand on her hip and the other fanning herself.“Hot enough to make Damon threaten every male within a five-mile radius?”I couldn’t help but laugh. “You’ve definitely achieved that goal.”Her lips curled in a wide grin. Then her
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BRIELLA.My cousin had been on a one-woman mission all week, and I was her primary target. She was determined to execute a full-blown shopping trip that'd most likely include sparkles, sequins, makeup, and other torture devices designed specifically to make me squirm. Why? The Full Moon Festival, o
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BRIELLA.The world had a way of reminding me I was nothing. That I didn’t exist. That was what the world had beaten into me over the years.My family.My pack.They whispered and mocked me, always finding different ways to tear me down. They were creative. I had to give them that. But I survived be
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