Jolie POV I nod, my voice barely there. “Well, you’re here now,” she says softly, rubbing my back in slow circles. “You don’t have to earn anything. You don’t have to prove your worth, you just have to be you.” You just have to be you. Maybe Mom was right about one thing maybe I am mistaken. But here, surrounded by kindness I never knew I deserved, I can almost believe some mistakes are worth keeping. “Thank you,” I whisper, my voice shaking but sincere. “Nothing to thank me for,” Helen replies kindly. “That’s just what decent people do.” If only more people were decent. If only my own mother had remembered how to be.That's when the front door explodes inward.Three men in black tactical gear storm through the entrance, moving with military authority. Nightshade Pack enforcers. I recognize the wolf scent even through their human forms."Jolie Rys, by order of Alpha Dominic, you're coming home."Helen shrieks and drops her soup bowl. It shatters on the kitchen floor, send
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