Rhea POV – 8 years old“Here,” Mom said, handing me my plastic doll, the one I had begged for for weeks and she’d saved up to get, as she shoved me into a storage room. “Stay here, don’t wander off. I’ll be back in a few hours.”Aside from her work at home, my mom sometimes worked as a maid at the pack estate. After all, she was just an omega, a single mother desperate to make ends meet.She wanted the best for me. So even though we were poor, I went to a private school while she worked herself half to death.Usually I stayed at Kenzie’s place whenever she had to work here, but Kenzie wasn’t home today.Mama placed my water bottle beside a stool in the corner, planted a quick kiss on my forehead, then slipped out and shut the door behind her.I was alone for hours, trying to distract myself by playing with my doll. But as the minutes passed, I got bored. The place smelled musty and my stomach wouldn’t stop growling, reminding me I hadn’t had lunch.Desperate, I left the storage room i
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