Liam's POVI was going insane and I did not want Ivy to see what happened when it came all the way out.I carried her without a word. She started to protest the moment she realized where we were going, her voice still shaky but her stubbornness completely intact because apparently near death experiences didn't slow that part of her down at all. I got her to my room and set her down on the bed and pulled the coat tighter around her and looked at her face for one second, the bruising jaw, the marks, all of it, and then I walked out and locked the door."Liam." Her voice came through the wood immediately. "Liam, what are you doing? Open this door."I walked away."I am not a child! Don't you dare lock me in here like I'm — Liam! I can hear you walking away, I know your footsteps, open this door right now!"I kept walking.The burning in my chest had been there since before I got back to the pack, a slow crawl of something wrong moving through my bloodstream that I had been telling myself
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