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,

bathed his

pale he looked. He wasn't

to bandage the cuts.

mixture of anger and

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

passed. It was late,

When I finally glanced outside again, Nathan was slumped on

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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. Not like him. Grabbing my phone, I dialed a familiar number. It rang twice before a gruff voice

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

Nathan," I snapped.

I be talking about?"

there in ten," he replied, and I

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watched as Nathan's

Nathan's unconscious

the yard and into the

watching him go. I just felt..... tired. Exhausted by the

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, text messages,

to let her win this time. She'd ruined too much, hurt too many people. She

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hefty amount, but more than the money, she had to record

the video the day

flawless and 'full of arrogance, was

Herp

in

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

the marks of

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