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

against the side of the house, still

his

looked. He wasn't even

to bandage the cuts.

strange mixture

out. He didn't deserve my

was late, maybe

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

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him. But I wasn't a

in my yard, passed out. Bleeding. I don't care what you do, just get him off my property." There was a pause on the

Nathan," I snapped. "Who

I be talking about?"

in ten," he replied, and I hung

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watched as

Nathan's unconscious body

and into the car. I didn't

just

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, text

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

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but 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

video the

face, once flawless and 'full

Herp

in

all else had been destroyed that fight. Her once-perfect

the

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