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 .

looked down at myself

or light

white as printer paper in comparison

my

and pulled into a thick French braid that hung

to me as if

a door opening inside my mind ,

of this was familiar

This was me .

was the life Id lived for years

in a memory

wasnt in my room this time but walking down a long hall

74 3/6 Someone moved

didnt have to look to know it was Esther Reed

looked tall , and that meant I had

mission was

in my

knew what

Id bet whipped .

Bled .

nothing could atone for failure except suffering

, no !

voice also

No one seemed to know

felt so wrong

be a

my mother

things they made me do … Inside ,

like this either

weak and stunted , because I was weak and stunted

We werent enough .

my thoughts

Take her away .

from screaming , shell be allowed

guilt from her

! But Esther wouldnt

me away , but I thought she

The memory flashed , bouncing through scenes of torture that made me weep with remembered

darkness again the

, my heart started to

I was aware , I stood outside with Esther and my Alpha

, and when I looked down at

Numb .

, starving thing inside me

to never shift because I was so ashamed

hands ,

held them

in

of the Blue Ridge scouts

She was old .

Easy to kill .

, said Waylon

warmed me like

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