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

light neutrals

made my skin look white as printer paper in

my hair

into a thick French braid

me as if Id been shoved into a new body

a door opening inside my mind

of this was familiar

This was me .

was the life Id lived for

was in

room this time but walking down a

3/6 Someone moved at my

to look to know

looked tall , and that meant I had

latest mission was a failure , she

welled up in my belly

what failure

Id bet whipped .

Bled .

could atone for failure

, no ! I

voice also

I 12 ? 13 ? No one seemed to know when my birthday

felt so

wanted to be

wanted my mother to

when I tried to do the evil things they made me do … Inside

like this either

so weak and stunted , because I

We werent enough .

my

Take her away .

is raw from screaming , shell be allowed to

the guilt

But Esther

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

memory flashed , bouncing through scenes of torture that made

faded to darkness again

started to turn cold

, I stood outside with Esther and my

down at my

felt …

Numb .

weak , starving

tried to never shift because I

me see your hands , Esther

held them

in

of the Blue Ridge scouts

She was old .

Easy to kill .

, said

his praise warmed

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