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

of the house, still clutching his bleeding

bathed his face,

pale he looked. He

to bandage the cuts.

strange mixture

out. He didn't deserve

passed. It was

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

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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

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

snapped. "Who else

I be talking about?"

replied, and I hung up

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watched as Nathan's

unconscious body

yard and into the car.

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

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

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

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my favor. Sienna was fined a hefty amount, but more than the money, she had to record a public apology. That must've been the real punishment for her,

the day

'full of arrogance, was marred by

Herp

in

else had

etched with the

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