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Chapter 22

Author: N.O Darling
last update Last Updated: 2025-07-09 06:24:51

** Paige’s POV **

I walk through the woods with Ryder and Callen. It’s dark, and a little creepy, but mostly it’s surreal.

The realisation that I am walking this path with the biggest, scariest of predators is hard to wrap my head around.

Both men stick close to me, catching me by the arm before I even have a chance to trip.

I bet Poppy is going to freak out when she sees who I’m with. I should have pre-warned her on the phone, but she didn’t really give me a chance before she hung up on me. I hate I worried her so much. Me and Jax are all she has left after losing our parents, and she must have been frantic when she couldn’t find me.

“You know you can’t tell your sister what we are, don’t you?” Callen asks.

“Yes, I’m not stupid, plus she’d probably have me sectioned if I tried to tell her you turn into wolves,” I scoff. “I’m still struggling to believe it myself, even though I saw it with my own eyes.”

“It took me a while to believe it, even after I shif
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