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

leaning against the side of the house, still clutching his

his

looked. He wasn't

to bandage the cuts.

a strange mixture of anger and

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

was late, maybe

was silent. When I finally glanced outside again, Nathan was

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a split second, panic shot through me. Had he passed out? I bit my lip, torn between letting him suffer and helping him. But I wasn't

in my yard, passed out. Bleeding. I don't care what you do, just get him off my property."

Nathan," I snapped. "Who

I be talking about?"

in ten," he replied, and I hung up without another

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as

unconscious body

yard and into the car. I didn't

better watching him go. I just felt..... tired.

coming back. It didn't matter how many times I threw him out-he'd keep finding ways to worm back into my life.

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

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favor. Sienna was fined a hefty amount, but more than the money, she had to record a public apology.

the video the day

Sienna's face, once flawless and 'full of arrogance, was marred by

Herp

in

thing she valued above all else had been

the

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