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 house,

his face,

pale he looked. He wasn't even

to bandage the cuts.

strange mixture of anger and

inside me. The anger won out. He

was late, maybe

finally glanced outside again,

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me. Had he passed out? I bit my lip, torn between letting him suffer and helping him. But

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

Nathan," I snapped. "Who

I be talking about?"

ten," he replied, and I hung up

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watched as Nathan's beta

Nathan's unconscious

the yard and into

go. 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 I was done. Really done this time. The next morning, I gathered all the materials I'd collected over the past few months-emails,

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

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more than the money, she had to record a public apology. That must've been the real punishment for her, knowing she'd have to face the world and admit her

watched the video the

flawless and 'full of arrogance, was

Herp

in

face. The one thing she valued above all else had been destroyed that

with the