Chapter 43

"So, tell me why you think you're some evil werewolf? Cause I know you, Kels. There's nothing evil about you."

A tear slid down her cheek.

"I've never told anyone what happened that night."

"Can you trust me enough to tell me?"

She was quiet and I didn't think she was going to tell me. Then she surprised me by speaking.

"Two wolves came in the night. My father woke up and tried to hide my mother and me while he

fought them off, but they were too fast, too strong for him, and they took him down before we could get away. I remember crying and wanting to scream for him, but my mother hushed me and wrapped me in her arms and dragged me out the back door. We almost made it to the woods behind

house when we heard them coming around the corner. They attacked my mother from

couldn't just leave here lying there. I started to cry and she begged me to leave her, but I stayed. I didn't know what to do or where to go. She pushed herself up to sit with her back, raw from the attack, up against a tree. I know she must have been in pain, but all she cared about was me. I laid my head in her lap and she stroked my hair and begged me to leave. When we heard the wolves coming back, she got frantic and demanded I go. 'Kelsey, run. Run baby, and don't look back. Don't ever look back....' Those were her last words to me. I got up and started to run. One of the

body started itching."

she was telling me. I knew what she was about to say. What she was

blocked out a lot of the following days. I think they kept me heavily drugged while in the hospital. I had my first three skin grafts before I left the hospital. I was put in foster care, but even though I was young, I knew I could never let anyone know how they had turned me into a beast, a

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tears away. I wanted to grab her and pull her into my arms and just hold her. But even that simple touch brought me a little peace. I didn't want to freak her out knowing how fragile she was in that moment, but I needed to feel her, to assure myself and my

"How old were you?"

"Twelve."

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