His Knees, His Pleas, But Our Son's in Peace

Chapter 30

His face crumpled a little, but I didn't care. He needed to leave, to stop standing in my

yard like some wounded puppy.

"If you don't leave," I

rising, "

"I warned, my voice

"I'll call I the police again."

Nathan winced at

at that, but sun

didn't

move. .He just stood I there, blood still trickling from the cuts on his arms, his clothes torn from the earlier fight with the rogue wolves. Stubborn fool. The man had always been stubborn, but now it wasn't something I admired-it just made me tired. ured.

I turned on my heel and shut the door,

leaving him outside. I pressed my back

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revving as he left. He really wasn't going anywhere.

Let him stand out there, I thought bitterly.

He made his choices; he can deal with the consequences.

But as the night dragged on, I couldn't help

but check the window. I saw him out

the side of the house, still clutching

bathed his face,

pale he looked. He wasn't

to bandage the cuts.

strange mixture of anger

inside me. The anger won out. He didn't deserve my

was late,

was silent. When I finally glanced outside again, Nathan was slumped on the ground,

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me. Had he passed out? I bit my lip, torn between letting him suffer and helping him. But I wasn't a monster. Not

take him away," I said, my voice sharp. "He's in my yard, passed out. Bleeding. I don't care what you do, just get him off my property." There

snapped. "Who else

I be talking about?"

in ten," he replied,

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as

Nathan's unconscious

and into the

I just felt..... tired.

slumped onto the couch, running a hand through my hair. Nathan wouldn't stop coming back. It didn't matter how many times I threw him out-he'd keep finding ways to worm back into my life. But

slow, grueling process, but I was ready. I wasn't going to let her win this time. She'd ruined too much, hurt too many people. She

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money, she had to record a public apology. That must've been

watched the video the

once flawless and 'full of arrogance, was marred

Herp

in

one thing she valued above all else had been destroyed that fight. Her once-perfect

etched with the marks