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

side of the house, still clutching his

bathed his face,

looked. He wasn't even

to bandage the cuts.

a strange mixture of

out. He didn't deserve my sympathy. Not after

was late, maybe

When I finally glanced outside

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

Bleeding. I

Nathan," I snapped. "Who else

I be talking about?"

be there in ten," he replied, and I

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as Nathan's

Nathan's unconscious body

yard and into

I just felt..... tired. Exhausted by the

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

lawsuit was a slow, grueling process, but I was ready. I wasn't going to let her win this

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amount, but more than the money, she had to record a public apology. That must've been the real

watched the video the day it

Sienna's face, once flawless and 'full of arrogance,

Herp

in

thing she valued above all else had been destroyed

etched with the marks

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