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Jake didn’t answer.He stared at the tissue in my hand.I crumpled it and dropped it into the trash can beside us.Lucas came to stand next to me.“You know him?”“My former mate.”Jake’s expression changed sharply.“Former?”“Yes.”Lucas looked at him, then at me.“Would you like me to leave?”“No.”I put the last bag in the car and closed the back.“We were just going home.”“Home?”Jake repeated the word, looking between us.“You’re living with him?”I didn’t bother correcting him.Lucas only came on workdays. When repairs ran late, he occasionally slept in the staff room beside the storage shed.None of that was Jake’s business.“If you have something to say, say it.”My tone seemed to wound him.“You changed all your contact information. You didn’t tell me you’d applied to leave the pack. I’ve been looking for you for days.”“You didn’t receive the notice?”“That isn’t the same as telling me.”I looked at him.“The third time you made me sign that release declaration, you didn’t a

He looked at me, his eyes slowly reddening.Once, that would have softened me.I would have made excuses for him.He was under too much pressure.He cared too much about his authority.He hadn’t thought through the consequences.None of those reasons could convince me anymore.My mother was dead.I had already lived through her funeral. Through the night when no one came for me.His tears were too late.“Susan, give me a chance.”His voice grew hoarse.“I’ll make it up to you.”“How?”He had no answer.“Will you bring my mother back?”“Let me see her one more time?”“Or make those people move away from the door so I don’t have to kneel and beg them?”Jake reached out as though to catch my sleeve.I stepped back.At last, his hand fell.Lucas had stayed beside us without interrupting.Only when my shoulders began to shake beyond my control did he quietly ask if I wanted to go.I nodded.Jake blocked the car door again.“You can hate me. But you can’t just be with someone else.”I looked

That evening, I spoke with my attorney.Not about whether Jake would change.About how to formally bar him from entering my property without permission. How to document unwanted contact. How to make sure I wasn’t unprepared if something happened again.I changed the locks, added security cameras, and checked my phone for any old accounts that might still be sharing my location.Lucas suggested staying in the staff room whenever he worked past dark.“Not for free,” I said.He blinked.“I was just going to offer to help sometimes.”“That still counts as work.”I added the extra overnight coverage to his contract.After he read it, he smiled and said I was better than his previous employers.I didn’t think I was especially good.I had simply started to understand that dependable help should come with clear boundaries.Not a debt someone owed for the rest of their life.Jake was taken to the local werewolf medical center.The gunshot wound wasn’t life-threatening, but the suppression round

“Susan.”“You asked what I wanted. I answered.”Emily couldn’t hold back any longer.“Do you have any idea how much he’s done for you?”I looked at her.She seemed to take that as encouragement. Her voice grew louder.“He’s ignored his work for days to stay here. You got him hurt in front of all those people, and he hasn’t even held it against you.”“Did you come to plead his case?” I asked quietly.Her lips pressed together.Of course she hadn’t.Jake had refused to return to Blood Moon. She was afraid of losing the last thing keeping her secure, so she’d followed him.But she still believed carrying his child gave her a place that mattered.Jake turned to her.“Did I ask you to speak?”Emily froze.He had once spoken to me in that same tone.Hearing him use it on someone else gave me no satisfaction.It only made it clear that nothing had changed.He hadn’t finally learned to respect people.He simply wanted one of us back more than the other.Jake faced the camera again.“I can end

When the patrol car turned onto the road, Jake finally stepped back.He seemed to want to say something else.I closed the curtains.I didn’t listen.Only when everything outside had gone quiet did I sit down again.My coffee had gone cold.Lucas asked if I wanted him to make another pot.I shook my head.“I’d like to go for a walk.”We made a circuit of the pasture.He didn’t ask what Jake’s phone call had been about.He didn’t ask what I’d done.When we reached the newly repaired storage shed, he said, “I have classes two days next week. I might need to come in later.”“You can just take those days off.”“Paid?”“We’ll follow the contract.”He nodded seriously, then started discussing when the tools we’d ordered would arrive.Those small, practical things slowly brought me back to my own life.Jake’s crisis wasn’t the whole of my future.I had fences to inspect. Bills to pay.A sheep that was always trying to escape.Back inside, I found a message from my attorney.Blood Moon’s repre