Savage Hunt by Jane knight

Chapter Ninety-Four: Rules are made to be bro

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I stopped in front of apartment 2B, looking at the shiny golden letters on the dark cherry wood door. Rock music played inside the apartment and I could picture my best friend. The kitchen was probably a mess, Charity was super bad about cleaning up as she cooked.

The sound of her off key singing was muffled by the door and I knew that she would be dancing while she cooked. She was always in motion, she always had an ener gy to her that seemed limitless. I had been halfway con vinced that she had ADHD and no one had noticed it but me.

I could picture her in there with her hair pulled up in a messy bun on top of her head. Her lips spread in a smile as she did her thing. It was a scene I had walked into more times than I could count. I was still nervous to see her, but I knew that I could stand out here all morning.

Biting my lower lip, I brought my hand up and knocked on the door. It was best to just get it over with. I couldn’t put this off forever, even if a part of me wanted to. I wor ried that things were going to change between the two of us.

I was pretty sure that my friend was a shifter. That there was so much about her that I didn’t know. 

It hurt that she hadn’t trusted me with this. There wasn’ ta part of my life that I didn’t share with her. Yet, she had not trusted me enough to tell me her secret. She must have known that Jake was like her, but that was another thing she hadn’t told me.

It was beginning to feel like the world that I knew was all a lie. I just hoped there were no more shocking secrets that were going to come out about the world and the peo ple closest to me. I didn’t know if I would be able to handle it if there was. Each thing I learned made me feel more and more like this was some very vivid hallucination.

smile, but I could see the worry in fear in her eyes that mirrored my own. She looked like I had thought she would. Her hair was all messy, piled on top of her head. Flour was

her skin seemed to glow. My gaze moved down to the

said, frowning at

no,” she said, lifting up her hands and I realized that the bruises were healing but

but it was

of what I should say. || wasn’t bothered that she’d had kinky

that Jason had given me and the marks on both sides of my neck. She smoothed her hands over the front of her shirt, giving me

throat felt tight. I didn’t want

spent the night?” I asked, but we

Charity waved me in but I didn’t step inside the apartment. I

stilted like she was worried about telling me what I already knew.

your rules?” | asked, wrapping my arms around my stomach

made to be broken. Are you not coming in, Til?” Charity asked, looking down at her sparkly blue toe nails

going to tell me the truth or are you going to pretend that everything is normal and you haven’t been ly ing to me the entire time I’ve known you?” My voice rose with each word and my eyes burned with unshed tears that were threatening to spill. I didn’t want to cry but I was still so worn out and I had been on a rollercoaster of

Charity said, stepping closer to