Chapter 74 AURORA No ! I leaped up from my desk so fast I knocked the heavy wooden chair over .

Yes , the clone of me hissed .

She rose and folded her arms across her chest in a superior way , then tilted her chin up so she was looking down her nose at me .

Youve forgotten yourself .

Who you were made to be .

Raised to be .

I took a step back , and the wicked version of myself answered by stepping around my desk .

Dont run from it , Ann .

You are a monster years in the making .

I opened my mouth to argue that I was no monster , but nothing .

came out .

The other me picked my journal up off my desk and weighed it in her hand .

Read this .

Youll see .

She offered it to me .

I shook my head .

Refused to take it .

Her smile turned into an evil grimace .

You wont go willingly ? Fine .

Go by force .

She lunged forward .

The book fell open with her movement , and she shoved it into my face .

I braced for the impact .

But there was no impact .

Chapter 74 2/6 Instead , when the pages hit me , the world went dark .

My office was gone .

The safe , cozy sights and scents of the Blue Ridge pack house were gone .

Instead , there was the old , musty scent of basement and damp .

stone .

I looked around .

I was in the Broken Forest pack house , where Id found the pages .

down at

pastels or light neutrals

skin look white as printer paper in comparison

my

French

alien to me as if Id been shoved into a new body

door opening inside my mind , I

this

This was me .

Id

was in a memory

this time but walking down

74 3/6 Someone moved at

to know it was Esther Reed

looked tall , and that meant I had to

was a

welled up in my

what failure

Id bet whipped .

Bled .

you served it , nothing could atone for failure except

, no ! I

also

? No one seemed

so

be a good

mother to love me

tried to do the evil things they made me do … Inside , my

didnt like this either

weak and stunted , because

We werent enough .

my

Take her away .

throat is raw from screaming , shell be allowed to try

guilt

But Esther wouldnt listen

me and started to drag me away , but I thought she said , Nameless help me ,

through scenes

faded to darkness again the

, my heart started to turn

I stood

when I looked down at my body , I could tell

… colder

Numb .

weak , starving thing inside

tried to never shift because I was so

hands

them

in blood

one of the Blue

She was old .

Easy to kill .

, said Waylon

never spoke , and his praise warmed me like

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